I was very saddened to hear of her passing. Gretchen Kraus was one of the best sitcom characters ever. Soap's "The Evil Ingrid Svenson" (as the voice-over always called her) was hilariously mean and over-the-top the way a Soap villain ought to be, and from the name of the character, Susan Harris obviously wrote the character with Inga in mind.
She had a memorable guest-starring role as Holly, Rose's bitchy sister on The Golden Girls. It wasn't until later that I realized Holly somehow managed to break the "curse" of having grown up in St. Olaf without becoming a blithering idiot like all the others.
