--- title: Lena Dunham, Mia Farrow and Others Remember Elaine Stritch description: Elaine Stritch, the Broadway extraordinaire whose career spanned theatre, cinema and television, died Thursday at 89 in her home in Birmingham, Mich. canonical: https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/ author: Aleksandra Gjorgievska article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-17T18:42:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:12:37.426Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Lena Dunham, Mia Farrow and Others Remember Elaine Stritch og:description: Elaine Stritch, the Broadway extraordinaire whose career spanned theatre, cinema and television, died Thursday at 89 in her home in Birmingham, Mich. og:url: https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ae4b6788e398491/69869c303bc999e5a01a4958/10elaine_stritch.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Elaine Stritch performs at the Kennedy Center Honors on October 29, 1994. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Dunham, Mia Farrow and Others Remember Elaine Stritch twitter:description: Elaine Stritch, the Broadway extraordinaire whose career spanned theatre, cinema and television, died Thursday at 89 in her home in Birmingham, Mich. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ae4b6788e398491/69869c303bc999e5a01a4958/10elaine_stritch.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mia Farrow, Lena Dunham and Others Remember Elaine Stritch by [Aleksandra Gjorgievska](https://time.com/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/) ## Aleksandra Gjorgievska Jul 17, 2014 6:42 PM UTC  Elaine Stritch performs at the Kennedy Center Honors on October 29, 1994. Elaine Stritch performs at the Kennedy Center Honors on October 29, 1994.CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images by [Aleksandra Gjorgievska](https://time.com/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/) ## Aleksandra Gjorgievska Jul 17, 2014 6:42 PM UTC Elaine Stritch, the Broadway extraordinaire whose career spanned theatre, cinema and television, [died](http://time.com/3001855/elaine-stritch-great-dame-of-broadway-dead-at-89/) Thursday at 89 in her home in Birmingham, Mich. A slew of Twitter reactions to Stritch’s death speak to her influence on the current generation of artists. Here is what members of the communities she was a part of tweeted in her memory: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/"},"headline":"Mia Farrow, Lena Dunham and Others Remember Elaine Stritch","datePublished":"2014-07-17T18:42:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:12:37.426Z","description":"Celebrities in disbelief about her death","url":"https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/","keywords":["remembrance","broadway","twitter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ae4b6788e398491/69869c303bc999e5a01a4958/10elaine_stritch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aleksandra Gjorgievska","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aleksandra-gjorgievska/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ae4b6788e398491/69869c303bc999e5a01a4958/10elaine_stritch.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elaine Stritch performs at the Kennedy Center Honors on October 29, 1994.","caption":"Elaine Stritch performs at the Kennedy Center Honors on October 29, 1994.","creditText":"CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3001893/elaine-stritch-twitter/","name":"Mia Farrow, Lena Dunham and Others Remember Elaine Stritch"}}]}] ```