Stritch played the mother of Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy.
Ever notice howElaine Stritch’s30 Rockcharacter was impeccably dressed?
“And she was like, ‘I’ve got to wear this.’

Elaine Stritch guest stars on “30 Rock.".Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
And we were like, ‘But Elaine, you’re in the hospital!
you’re gonna wanna be in a hospital gown.
She was like, ‘None of this.

Jane Krakowski and Elaine Stritch photographed together in 2014.Cindy Ord/Getty
I have to have this on camera with me.'”
“Because she can take it home,” Ferguson said.
“It’s the only way she’d get to keep it!”
Stritch appeared as his hard-to-kindly, hat-loving mother, Colleen, on nine episodes over the series’ run.
Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, and Judah Friedlander also starred.