Frances Bay, Adam Sandler's Grandma in Happy Gilmore, Dies at 92

Frances Bay

Frances Bay, who played Adam Sandler's grandmother in Happy Gilmore, has died, the Los Angeles Times reports. She was 92.

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Bay, born in Canada, began acting in the 1970s in dinner theater and on the radio. She went on to appear in Foul Play (1978) with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase and then on numerous television shows like Dukes of Hazzard and Happy Days.

More recently, in addition to her appearance in Sandler's 1996 film, she famously played the woman who fought with Jerry Seinfeld over the last loaf of marble rye bread on Seinfeld.

Bay's husband, childhood sweetheart Charles Bay, died in 2002.

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