Mama Cass was born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore in 1941. As a teenager, she took on the name Cass Elliot, and left high school to pursue a career as an actress. She had a small part in a touring ...

Despite the group’s legacy, I was drawn to one member in particular: Cass Elliot, also known as Mama Cass. Though we lived in completely different worlds, I soon began to see myself in Mama Cass.

"They made quite a few really great records. It just wasn't the right combination," Owen Elliot-Kugell exclusively tells PEOPLE Mama Cass' daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell came up with the idea for ...

In an excerpt from her new book, My Mama, Cass, Owen-Elliot Kugell reflects on the last time she saw her mother, and explains her quest to honor her legacy ...