He finally won an Emmy after the last season of the cancellation of the show, prompting him to quip I'm so happy I won, now if I only had a job. Facebook gives people the power to share … (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: Thanks for joining us on this edition of "LARRY KING LIVE," our tribute to Tony Randall with his widow, Heather Randall, quite a lady. And you know, another example of that when I was pregnant with Julia, he did "A Christmas Carol" at Madison Square Gardens, he did 14 shows a week. KING: Did the first gay show. HEATHER RANDALL, TONY RANDALL'S WIDOWED WIFE: They're doing OK. And Jefferson drew -- he said, this is me and this is my sister Julie and this is my mommy, Heather and this is Tony Randall. "He was mortally offended by stupidity and, of course, most of our pop culture is that. H. RANDALL: Oh, I don't remember. KING: But he didn't like the hospital? Boys' Night Out, poster, US poster art, clockwise from left: Kim Novak, Tony Randall, James Garner, Howard Morris, Howard Duff, 1962. Ben Vereen sang. KING: When you met Tony, you were how old? She’s president of the board of the New York Theatre Workshop and is raising their kids, Julia, 10, and Jefferson, 9. Tony's fascination with the opera... HEATHER RANDALL: Yes. KING: Good place. KING: Was he alwasy in good shape? Heather Randall is on Facebook. Moreover, she is Christian by religion and her zodiac sign is Libra. "You know, I could say a million things about the hypocrisy of the people who comment on my marriage," she says, stabbing at her Cobb salad at B. H. RANDALL: Oh, yes. He knew what he wanted. HUDSON: Keep trying. KING: I know he was. H. RANDALL: Well, you know what's funny, the kids, at school, they had to draw a picture of their family, and this was while he was still alive. See what Heather Randall (heatherleeeigh) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. H. RANDALL: Oh, no. He would get on the floor with Jefferson and play Legos. Lookup Heather Randall's family members, old roommates, friends and more instantly. HEATHER RANDALL: He was ready to throw in the towel, and I said you can't. I've heard so much about you through Tony. Heather Randall in Florida . "He actually called his lawyer about demanding a retraction, something he'd never bothered to do before." DORIS DAY, ACTRESS: I know that, too. Bar in Manhattan. He was very secure in his masculinity, which is why he wasn't afraid to play effeminate roles. KING: ... was like crazed, right? Trouvez les Heather Harlan Randall images et les photos d’actualités parfaites sur Getty Images. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Did you ever work with him, ever act? KING: No down on the knee? HEATHER RANDALL: I don't know if he did. And "M. Butterfly" -- never offstage, but that -- that was good. KLUGMAN: What kind of pills did you take? KING: He replaced? It gets her a little steamed. George C. Scott did "Inherit the Wind" for Tony. It wasn't planned. I'm always playing them. I said you didn't fight Frank Rich and all those critics and all those people all those years just to give up now, just to give up on your life now, you fought so hard your whole life. TONY RANDALL, ACTOR: We were walking by Tiffanies. H. RANDALL: Yes. And so I really didn't notice anything. HEATHER RANDALL: No. KING: What about with the kids? H. RANDALL: When I met him, I was 20. We'll be showing you many scenes of Tony's career and the memorial service. He felt very verile. KING: That's right. They went a couple of times and then it was just a little too much for them. Heather Randall, 36, the widow of legendary actor Tony Randall, who died in 2004 at the age of 84, has heard it all before. Never. And I began to notice this young girl. H. RANDALL: They did. I thought we would never get married, we would just live together. KING: How did they deal with that, seeing their daddy sick? H. RANDALL: Until he got sick, until about the last two years of his life, it was unbelievable. And we went through the red carpet. But she's grown tired of seeing her own May/December relationship lumped in with that of Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall. Of course, today, Heather would rather keep the age difference within the realm of 10 to 20 years, if possible. Well, we went to see a great play, "Terry Jones and the Heiress." KING: When you got involved, how old? Butterfly." H. RANDALL: No. Randall told AP Radio that he couldn’t believe he’d become a father for the first time in his 70s. That's right. But, no, I think -- he used to take Julia to the opera a lot and she'd sit on his lap and she still talks about that. If she was no longer Mrs. Tony Randall, who was she? KING: Did he know it? HEATHER RANDALL: Yes. You know, like when I was pregnant, he had stomach pains. He did great with him. KING: I know. He worked for scale, donated lots of money. It was the last thing he did on stage, and he missed a lot of performances, and it drove Tony nuts. H. RANDALL: 20 1/2. And I wanted to do something nice for the kids. HEATHER RANDALL: Crazed. Randall and Heather’s unconventional love story. Tony does the comic turn, and the audience goes to pieces. KING: He was doting Dad, was he? H. RANDALL: Very much. What can you say? I was like, oh my God. HEATHER RANDALL: Yes. H. RANDALL: That's true. H. RANDALL: Yes, he was. And a lot of people... KING: Told Tony stories? KING: What's it like for you to watch him? We don't have that problem. I mean, he felt it in every fiber of his body. KING: Had you ever been engaged? Get off! I think he asked her how do you cry so easily, and she said I think of the little doggies or the little animals that are in suffering. KING: I take my boys to school everyday. KING: They miss they're dad/ H. RANDALL: Oh, they feel the void. H. RANDALL: Yes. "He hated rock and was completely clueless. And he suffered. HEATHER RANDALL: One of the greatest loving friendships of all time. But George was such a huge talent, I mean, he'd forgive him anything. He was a funny guy. KING: You got to sane they're '70s or 80s, they're set in they're ways. He told me that. KING: You were never in love? THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. I mean, not that I read. We may earn commission from the links on this page. Let's say you make 90. KING: When he founded the National Theater, were you with him then? A week before he died, the doctor told me it was going to happened. T. RANDALL: Yes. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TONY RANDALL: I've had almost no friends in my life. Can you stay with them? It was very romantic. KING: Had you been married? At age 33, Heather Randall became a widow, dealing with issues most women don't face until they are in their 70s — and certainly don't face while their children are still 6 and 7 years old. It just grew. H. RANDALL: He was a huge presence, too, with so much energy. After graduating, he starred in two plays: George Bernard Shaw's 'Candida' alongside Jane Cowl and Emlyn Williams' 'The Corn Is Green' alongside Ethel Barr… KING: How did you plan the funeral? H. RANDALL: He lived in the hotel, he lived in the Chateau Marmont (ph) and he came right home. KING: Oh, the lawyers. And I have a very funny story. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KING: Where was your first date? But we weren't involved. H. RANDALL: I wasn't, but he was. Is it successful? A 23-year-old can change. TONY RANDALL: What channel is he on? Moreover, she is an actress by profession. KING: Well, if he was on television, you have tapes, DVD's, right? It was horrendous. That counts. H. RANDALL: A little bit. H. RANDALL: "Love Sidney." H. RANDALL: Yes. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KING: How did you propose? TONY RANDALL: Nothing. TONY RANDALL: She's in a class by herself. Tony Randall’s widow Heather has largely laid low since his death at 2003 at age 84. It was horrible. It was terrible. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Did Jack fly East right way when Tony passed? And it just grew over a number of years. H. RANDALL: He did. I lived -- I grew up in Florida. He fell as a child. H. RANDALL: I was 23 when I met him. As for his real friends — Garry Marshall, Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach — "I don't think anything like that ever occurred to them." But you should have seen him at the end. KING: Did she contact you when Tony died because she was real close to him. KING: I'm in that movie. At 20, how'd you meet him? That kind of thing. This is the last guy in the world you'd think of -- 6'5," built like Tarzan, very virile. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) T. RANDALL: I went through a period of numbness when I didn't know I was a living human being. HEATHER RANDALL: Everything was arrow straight even at the end. Look at the size of that woman! Maybe. KING: What was the -- I understand attraction, a wide difference in age, I'm not one to speak. Look at that! \"You know, I could say a million things about the hypocrisy of the people who comment on my marriage,\" she says, stabbing at her Cobb salad at B. You do your comic turn and zip! And I remember I was caring for him, and he just kept looking at me saying, it's so nice to have you care for me and you're just so wonderful. What do you think the kids are going remember most about him? I mean, it don't happen to everybody. I cried. KING: Did it -- was it successful? And then the second year... KING: She was an intern because she wanted to be an actress? Tony. KING: But he was. KING: Could have been your grandfather? T. RANDALL: We began to look like each other, yes. H. RANDALL: It doesn't matter, it's shocking. KING: He said, "everyday I read the obits and there isn't a day I don't know someone in there. RelSci Relationships. H. RANDALL: Well, you probably have a quote of what he said. Well, I don't believe that's true with Tony. Still, Tony Randall was apparently the only person on earth who didn't suspect Tony Randall was gay. And I just think you -- I compartmentalize it. T. RANDALL: Yes. Bad boy. I know this is hard for people to grasp, but sex was not a problem. KING: Did he have an Orthodox Jewish funeral? T. RANDALL: There's nothing I can do about it. KING: Even though she didn't go out. HEATHER RANDALL: Yes. KING: We'll be back with our remaining moments with the delightful Heather Randall and what she's doing with her life after this. I suppose I have some strains of guilt over it. I haven't studied it. T. RANDALL: Very much. Exclusive: GOOP x Loeffler Randall Accessory Collaboration, Lily Allen Dresses As Beyoncé, Nails 'Drunk In Love', 17 Things I Wish I'd Known About Getting Over an Ex When I Was Younger. 44. KING: Yes, I knew Jayne in Miami. H. RANDALL: He was in great shape? H. RANDALL: No. And he admitted she was, but he said, well Wendy Hiller in 1947 was so -- I wasn't there. He took pills! 1974. I taped the Saturday broadcasts of the opera. H. RANDALL: No. One Comment. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KING: What was Rock Hudson like to work with? H. RANDALL: Oh, because he didn't believe in the afterlife? But he also put a lot of his own money in, a very, very large amount of his own money into the theater. HEATHER RANDALL: No, but he said she was great fun. TONY RANDALL: Well, it's tough -- to an actor, what's tough is the length of the part. People would say it. But now we had a wedding ring. It was dear, it was sweet. I'm dealing with other things in my life as well, but... KING: Like what? KING: He told me the other night that he married you. I didn't have the confidence. As a husband, he was extremely devoted and kind and sensitive. There is nothing sad about our lives,” his widow, Heather Randall, told The National ENQUIRER. KING: Marilyn Monroe drove him a little nuts, right? KING: Really? KING: No date? And she had a great role in his life. He was a real man's man. We had marvelous times together. HEATHER RANDALL: It was a big success in London, and it was done in Los Angeles, and it was never done in New York. The median age was 63. Since her husband's death, Heather has been using Randall's money and clout to support various theater institutions. KING: Oh, I know. KING: He was Woody Allen... H. RANDALL: He was a Woody Allen New Yorker. KING: He was not a complainer, right? A friend typed it all up properly for her and, at last, in 2011 When Chicks Hatch was published. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tony Randall is going to be remembered as really a true gentleman of the theater. KING: Is this a full time job? Heather Harlan and Tony Randall met when she was an intern at the National Actors Theatre in New York, which Randall founded. Because he was so busy and so career oriented, running a theater group and acting. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TONY RANDALL: He was a very virile man, and he was so good looking, and women just -- his dressing room -- they were tumbling out of the door. Mostly been great. He said there were always groupies around. I think his wife was reclusive. And he you took him to the country, he would start to sneeze. T. RANDALL: I never saw people closer. I mean, strange little things like that. TONY RANDALL: She did it all my instinct, and her instinct was dead center, always true. KING: Why did you get married? Has she begun to look in that direction? KING: Did Tony have any bad habits? I'm an actress, haven't done it in a while. I've had a great life, this is my 10 pounds. Heather is still very close to these Hollywood legends. T. RANDALL: She said, here's where they sell wedding rings. Nothing but complaints. But there is also their daughter's abiding love of opera, their son's burning desire to tread the boards. When we got married, we went from the marriage ceremony in Mayor Giuliani's office, to rehearsal. TONY RANDALL: That's the captain. KING: You left right away, of course? HEATHER RANDALL: Thank you. KING: Did you expect a second child? "If they thought I was a jerk, I would think they would have dropped me like a hot potato." H. RANDALL: No. Where is the emergency exit? Tony Randall was born on February 26, 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma as Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg. H. RANDALL: I never discussed with him. KING: Yes? HEATHER RANDALL: Yes, he was one of the first people I called, yes, after Tony passed. KING: How did you meet him? Yes, she did, and I know she gave some quotes to the press. KING: He's in the hospital six months, obviously things are going bad. KING: Thank you. T. RANDALL: No, no. And I was really hurt. We never discussed it. Do you think about that? That's occasionally annoying, but not really. So we bought a wedding ring. "I hope I don't become a cougar anytime soon," she adds with a laugh. H. RANDALL: Yes Doris Day. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry, but we'll be delayed on the ground for an indefinite period. KING: His business to the coast had a return ticket at all times. He worked out. It was just like that. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) T. RANDALL: My first group of interns I hadn't met, picked out by others included this child, whom I barely noticed, although I did notice that she was certainly the hardest working of the interns. I had college boyfriends, Yes. HEATHER RANDALL: Like he would save stamps. KING: My kids call me LARRY KING LIVE. You know, you're going to work with people you don't like. But that's OK. “The Odd Couple” star was 75 when he wed 25-year-old Heather, an intern in one of his theater programs, in 1995– three years after the death of his longtime wife, Florence. H. RANDALL: It was horrible. H. RANDALL: Yeah. H. RANDALL: I was a huge fan. He did 14 shows a week. He said you know, everybody has to eat ten pounds of crap in their life. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He took something! Tony Randall & his daughter … Someone knocked the crib over.