MARRIAGE REVEALED. Gilda Radner, 33, spindly-limbed comedian of Saturday Night Live fame; and Rock Guitarist G.E. Smith, 28, who has played back-up in Radner's Broadway, TV and film appearances as dissipated Punk Rocker Candy Slice; both for the first time; in New York's city hall; on March 26.

DIED. Mary McCarty, 56, sassy, brassy-voiced character actress whose most recent role was as Nurse Starch on television's Trapper John, M.D.; of an undisclosed cause; in her home in Westwood, Calif. McCarty began her career in Hollywood at age five, playing a series of wise-mouthed sidekicks to Shirley Temple and Judy Garland. After a stint as a teen-age torch singer, she starred on Broadway in 1948's Small Wonder and 1949's Miss Liberty. In the 1970s, she renewed a fading theatrical career with tours de force in Follies, Chicago and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.

DIED. Kay Medford, 59, wisecracking comic actress best known for her Broadway portrayals of doting Jewish mothers in Bye Bye Birdie, Don't Drink the Water and Funny Girl (she also appeared in the film version); of cancer; in New York City. Born of Irish Catholic stock in Manhattan, the strawberry-blond comedian polished her one-liners in New York's Borscht Belt nightclubs before beginning a 40-year career in films, theater and television. Said she: "I started out by playing sexpots, nymphos, prostitutes, gun molls with wet lips and cigarettes dangling, then madams -- and now mothers."

DIED. John Collier, 78, British author whose mordant black humor and penchant for the bizarre marked many of his novels (His Monkey Wife, 1930), short stories (collected in Fancies and Goodnights, 1951) and screenplays, which included the Bette Davis melodrama Deception and a controversial 1973 adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost (published but never produced); in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Collier also collaborated on the script for the 1951 Humphrey Bogart-Katharine Hep burn classic The African Queen.

DIED. George Farkas, 78, New York City merchant whose aggressive retailing strategies turned Alexander's, the small discount department store he founded in The Bronx in 1928 and named for his father, into a 15-store, tristate empire; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach, Fla. Farkas was among the first to market inexpensive copies of Paris fashions and pioneered the move of department stores into the suburbs, where nine of the Alexander's stores, now publicly held, are situated.

DIED. Jakob Rosenberg, 86, curator of prints at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum for more than a quarter-century and a leading U.S. authority on the works of Rembrandt; in Cambridge, Mass.

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