Possible Clues:

• Fiction writer Ferber
• Felix's daughter on 'The Odd Couple'
• Seymour's Springfield Elementary love
• So, big writer seen with new dean
• Actress Purviance in many Chaplin films
• Seymour's love interest, once, on 'The Simpsons'
• Charlotte Rae role
• "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" Lewis
• Mrs. Turnblad in 'Hairspray'
• Dame ___ Everage (Barry Humphries character)