Martin Short toasts honoree Bette Midler at the Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Ceremony at the Library of Congress, December 4, 2021. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. 

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Martin Short, who met Catherine when she was 18 at Toronto's Second City. Hours after her death, he stopped his live show in Austin to say: 'She has been the greatest, most brilliant, kindest, sweetest angel that any of us worked with.' Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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