Monday, November 30, 2015

Steve Shagan obit

STEPHEN SHAGAN Obituary

 

He was not on the list.

SHAGAN--Stephen H.


"Steve," 88, passed away peacefully in his sleep on November 30, 2015, at his home in Los Angeles, CA. Born in 1927 in New York City to Barnet "Barney" and Rachel Shagan, Steve is survived by his son Robert (Paul). Beloved husband of 61 years of marriage to Elizabeth "Betty" F. Shagan (1930-2013), Steve will be remembered for his kindness, intelligence, creativity, honesty, strength, generosity, humor, integrity and perseverance; as well as the love he felt for the cats that he and Betty cared for over the years. When not dedicating time to his craft, Steve enjoyed traveling, keeping up with his favorite baseball and football teams' scores, horseracing, reading and spending quality time with his family and close friends. Steve's career as a best-selling author, film and television writer and producer spanned nearly six decades; including nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1974, Steve won the Writers Guild of America Award - Best Screenplay, Drama for "Save the Tiger," based upon his novel of the same name. Cumulatively, Steve published eight critically acclaimed novels, wrote 10 screenplays and produced over 48 films, television episodes and made for TV movies, combined. Private family services will be held at Newton Cemetery in Newton Center, MA. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the World Wildlife Fund.

Shagan came to Hollywood in 1958 with his wife, Elizabeth Florance "Betty" Ricker, whom he married on November 18, 1956, in Quincy, Massachusetts. At first he did odd jobs, for example working as a stagehand at a little theater and pulling cables at MGM Studios in the middle of the night. Eventually he started working on scripts and then produced the Tarzan television show on location in Mexico. It was believed that he had a relationship in Mexico with an actress and had son, but this was never confirmed. Betty talked him into quitting and concentrating on writing. Betty, a former fashion model, was the daughter of Philomena (née Pisano) and Al Ricker. Her mother, a dancer, later remarried, to Mayo J. Duca, a Boston jazz trumpet player. Philomena Pisano was the daughter of Katherine "Kitty" Bingham and Fred Anthony Pisano, of the musical-comedy vaudeville team of Pisano and Bingham.

Shagan wrote the screenplay for and co-produced the 1973 film Save the Tiger, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a Writers Guild of America Award. His novelization of Save the Tiger, which was his first novel, was actually published a year prior to the film's release. He had written the script first, and while he was shopping it around Hollywood, he wrote the novel to help him deal with the stress of trying to sell the script, which took two years to get produced. As he was finishing the book his typewriter broke and author Harold Robbins loaned him his.

Shagan went on to write the novel City of Angels and its film adaptation, Hustle, both released in 1975. He then wrote the screenplay for and co-produced Voyage of the Damned, for which he received another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Adapted Screenplay. This was followed by Nightwing, which he adapted from the novel of same name by Martin Cruz Smith. He then adapted his 1979 novel The Formula into a 1980 film of the same name, which he also co-produced and which reunited him with Save the Tiger director John G. Avildsen. Of the performances by Brando and Scott in The Formula, Steve Shagan reportedly stated: "I sensed a loss of purpose, a feeling that they didn't want to work any more and had come to think of acting as playing with choo-choo trains."

Subsequent films written by Shagan include The Sicilian, which he adapted from the novel by Mario Puzo, and Primal Fear, based on the novel by William Diehl. Shagan also wrote the teleplay for the made-for-television movie Gotti, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or a Special.

 

Novels

His novels include:

 

Save the Tiger (1972)

City of Angels (1975; filmed as Hustle)

The Formula (1979)

The Circle (1982)

The Discovery (1984)

Vendetta (1986)

Pillars of Fire (1990)

A Cast of Thousands (1994)

 

Producer

Marlon Brando and George C. Scott in The Formula (1980)

The Formula

5.6

producer

1980

 

The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

The House on Garibaldi Street

6.7

TV Movie

executive producer

1979

 

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

5.9

executive producer

1975

 

Brigitte Fossey and Stuart Whitman in The Man Who Died Twice (1973)

The Man Who Died Twice

7.0

TV Movie

producer

1973

 

Save the Tiger (1973)

Save the Tiger

6.9

producer

1973

 

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1971)

Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones

6.7

producer

1971

 

River of Mystery

7.7

TV Movie

producer

1971

 

A Step Out of Line (1971)

A Step Out of Line

7.5

TV Movie

producer

1971

 

Sole Survivor (1970)

Sole Survivor

7.4

TV Movie

executive producer

1970

 

Tarzan (1966)

Tarzan

7.1

TV Series

producer

1966–1968

37 episodes

 

Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army (1968)

Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army

6.3

producer

1968

 

Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1967)

Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion

5.2

producer

1967

 

Mike Henry and Diana Millay in Tarzan and the Great River (1967)

Tarzan and the Great River

5.3

associate producer

1967

 

Mike Henry in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)

Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

5.8

associate producer

1966

 

Sylvia (1965)

Sylvia

6.6

assistant producer

1965

 

Writer

Gotti (1996)

Gotti

7.2

TV Movie

teleplay (as Steven Shagan)

1996

 

Richard Gere in Primal Fear (1996)

Primal Fear

7.7

screenplay

1996

 

Christopher Lambert in The Sicilian (1987)

The Sicilian

5.4

screenplay

1987

 

Marlon Brando and George C. Scott in The Formula (1980)

The Formula

5.6

novel

screenplay

1980

 

Nightwing (1979)

Nightwing

5.2

screenplay

1979

 

The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)

The House on Garibaldi Street

6.7

TV Movie

screenplay

1979

 

Voyage of the Damned (1976)

Voyage of the Damned

6.4

screenplay

1976

 

Hustle (1975)

Hustle

6.2

novel "City of Angels"

written by (uncredited)

1975

 

Save the Tiger (1973)

Save the Tiger

6.9

written by

1973

 

A Step Out of Line (1971)

A Step Out of Line

7.5

TV Movie

Writer

1971

 

Actor

Tarzan (1966)

Tarzan

7.1

TV Series

(uncredited)

1967

1 episode

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Walter Kelley obit

Walter Kelley(1922-2015)

 

He was not on the list.


Walter Kelley was born on June 5, 1922 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Cross of Iron (1977), Convoy (1978) and The Cat Ate the Parakeet (1972). He died on November 29, 2015 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

He was frequently seen on screen in Sam Peckinpah's 70's films but also helped behind the camera on "Cross Of Iron" (screenplay) and "Convoy" (Second Unit Director).

Writer

Cross of Iron (1977)

Cross of Iron

7.4

screenplay

1977

 

Actor

Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Murder, She Wrote

7.2

TV Series

Passenger

1993

1 episode

 

Meg Foster in The Osterman Weekend (1983)

The Osterman Weekend

5.8

Agent #1

1983

 

Convoy (1978)

Convoy

6.3

Hamilton

1978

 

The Killer Elite (1975)

The Killer Elite

6.0

Walter

1975

 

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

7.2

Rupert

1973

 

Janet Leigh, Melanie Fullerton, and Stuart Whitman in Night of the Lepus (1972)

Night of the Lepus

4.1

Truck Driver

1972

 

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Operator

1971

1 episode

 

Robert Conrad and Ross Martin in The Wild Wild West (1965)

The Wild Wild West

8.1

TV Series

Mint Guard

1969

1 episode

 

Anthony Quinn, Claudia Cardinale, and Alain Delon in Lost Command (1966)

Lost Command

6.3

Major M.P. (as Walter Kelly)

1966

 

Lassie's Great Adventure (1963)

Lassie's Great Adventure

6.1

Control Tower Operator

1963

 

Sam Benedict (1962)

Sam Benedict

7.7

TV Series

Court Clerk

1963

1 episode

 

Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig, Lassie the Dog, and Lassie in Lassie (1954)

Lassie

6.5

TV Series

Air Traffic Controller

1963

3 episodes

 

Raymond Burr in Perry Mason (1957)

Perry Mason

8.3

TV Series

Interne

Surgeon

1962–1963

2 episodes

 

Mr. Garlund

TV Series

1960

1 episode

 

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Attack of the Giant Leeches

3.7

Mike (uncredited)

1959

 

Craig Stevens in Peter Gunn (1958)

Peter Gunn

8.0

TV Series

Bartender

1959

1 episode

 

The Lineup (1954)

The Lineup

7.6

TV Series

Ed Taylor

1958

1 episode

 

Flight (1958)

Flight

7.8

TV Series

Lt. Cartwright

1958–1959

1 episode

 

The Silent Service (1957)

The Silent Service

8.4

TV Series

Andrews

Springer

1957–1958

2 episodes

 

Tristram Coffin in 26 Men (1957)

26 Men

7.3

TV Series

Lew Evers (as Walter Kelly)

1958

2 episodes

 

Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, and George Nader in The Female Animal (1958)

The Female Animal

6.1

Assistant Director (uncredited)

1958

 

Highway Patrol (1955)

Highway Patrol

7.7

TV Series

Davis

1957

1 episode

 

Death Valley Days (1952)

Death Valley Days

7.5

TV Series

Art Gresham

1957

1 episode

 

West Point (1956)

West Point

7.0

TV Series

Reb

1957

1 episode

 

Men in War (1957)

Men in War

7.1

Pvt. Ackerman

1957

 

Dr. Christian (1956)

Dr. Christian

7.9

TV Series

Paul

1956

1 episode

 

Matinee Theatre (1955)

Matinee Theatre

6.7

TV Series

Howie Mann

1956

2 episodes

 

Frank McHugh and Marvin Miller in The Millionaire (1955)

The Millionaire

7.8

TV Series

Chris Hall (as Walter Kelly)

1956

1 episode

 

Loretta Young in The Loretta Young Show (1953)

The Loretta Young Show

7.5

TV Series

1955

1 episode

 

Robert Shayne in Navy Log (1955)

Navy Log

7.8

TV Series

Second Sailor

1955

1 episode

 

Hal Baylor, Hans Conried, and Chuck Hicks in Schlitz Playhouse (1951)

Schlitz Playhouse

7.4

TV Series

1955

1 episode

 

TV Reader's Digest (1955)

TV Reader's Digest

6.8

TV Series

(as Walter Kelly)

1955

1 episode

 

Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair in Marty (1955)

Marty

7.7

The Kid (uncredited)

1955

 

Kraft Theatre (1947)

The Philco Television Playhouse

7.4

TV Series

Young Fellow (uncredited)

1953

1 episode

 

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

Come Back, Little Sheba

7.5

Bruce Cunningham

1952

 

Kent Taylor in Boston Blackie (1951)

Boston Blackie

7.5

TV Series

Severy (as Walter Kelly)

1952

1 episode

 

Jumping Jacks (1952)

Jumping Jacks

6.2

Defensive Corporal (uncredited)

1952

 

Sailor Beware (1952)

Sailor Beware

6.2

Yeoman (uncredited)

1952

 

Stuart Erwin in The Stu Erwin Show (1950)

The Stu Erwin Show

6.8

TV Series

(as Walter Kelly)

1951

1 episode

 

Gwendolyn Laster and Richard Rober in The Well (1951)

The Well

7.2

Chip (as Walter Kelly)

1951

 

When Worlds Collide (1951)

When Worlds Collide

6.6

Student (uncredited)

1951

 

Van Johnson and Kathryn Grayson in Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Grounds for Marriage

5.8

Second Man (uncredited)

1951

 

Father of the Bride (1950)

Father of the Bride

7.1

Usher (uncredited)

1950

 

Producer

Madelyn Keen and Phillip Pine in The Cat Ate the Parakeet (1972)

The Cat Ate the Parakeet

6.7

associate producer

1972

 

Second Unit or Assistant Director

Convoy (1978)

Convoy

6.3

second unit director

1978

 

Additional Crew

The Killer Elite (1975)

The Killer Elite

6.0

dialogue director

1975

 

Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

6.1

dialogue coach

1972

 

Barbra Streisand in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

6.4

dialogue coach

1970

 

Guns for San Sebastian (1968)

Guns for San Sebastian

6.6

dialogue coach

1968

 

Alain Delon, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Rosemary Forsyth in Texas Across the River (1966)

Texas Across the River

6.2

dialogue coach

1966

 

Ann-Margret, Alain Delon, and Van Heflin in Once a Thief (1965)

Once a Thief

6.5

dialogue coach (as Walter Kelly)

1965

 

Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif in Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

Behold a Pale Horse

6.7

dialogue coach

1964

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Marjorie Lord - # 118

Marjorie Lord, Sitcom Wife of Danny Thomas, Dies at 97

She was number 118 on the list.

Marjorie Lord, who starred as the cheery and supportive wife Kathy Williams on the showbiz-centered hit sitcom Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show, has died. She was 97.

Lord, who joined the comedy in 1957 near the end of its fourth season and stayed through its finish in April 1964, died of natural causes on Nov. 28 at her home in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Survivors include her daughter, the Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction), from a marriage to actor John Archer (White Heat).

A former contract player at RKO and Universal with a long list of B-movies and TV shows to her credit, Lord was hired as Thomas’ second wife on the show (known as Make Room for Daddy for its first four seasons). Jean Hagan played his first wife, Margaret, who died between seasons three and four.

Lord’s Kathy was a widowed Irish nurse with a daughter, Linda (Angela Cartwright). She wed Thomas’ character — a nightclub singer-comic who spends a lot of time on the road — on the series’ fourth-season finale and always handled her spouse’s showbiz hyperactivity with aplomb.

The series, which aired on ABC and CBS, also co-starred Rusty Hamer as Thomas’ son, Rusty. (Hamer, who joined the show at age 6, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 42 in 1990.) Sherry Jackson, who played Thomas’ oldest child Terry, departed early in the sixth season.

Lord and everyone else got back together for the 1970-71 ABC revival Make Room for Granddaddy.


While making Make Room for Daddy, Lord put her movie career on the back burner. She made just one feature after the show ended, playing Bob Hope’s wife in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number (1966), but worked often in the theater as an actress and director.

Earlier, Lord played the deadpan lead in two Bert Wheeler-Robert Woolsey comedies — On Again-Off Again and High Flyers, both released in 1937. She also appeared in Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) opposite her husband John, who played her fiance in the movie; Johnny Come Lately (1943) with James Cagney; and Riding High (1950), a Bing Crosby musical.

Marjorie Wollenberg was born on July 26, 1918, in San Francisco. She came to New York when her father, a cosmetics executive, was transferred, and at age 16 she landed a role on Broadway in The Old Maid, co-starring Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, Humphrey Bogart’s first wife.

She bounced back and forth between New York and California working in films and theater; at one point, she spent a year touring in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton.

Lord was active during the early days of live TV and guest-starred on such shows as The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Kit Carson, Ramar of the Jungle and Hopalong Cassidy.

After her 14-year marriage to Archer ended in divorce in 1955, she starred in the play Anniversary Waltz, produced by Randolph Hale, who in 1958 would become her second husband. Thomas and producer Sheldon Leonard saw her in the play in Los Angeles and signed her to play a nurse for four weeks on Make Room for Daddy. It took just one episode for them to realize they had the next Mrs. Williams.

On the big screen, Lord also appeared in the serial The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack, based on the popular comic-book flying ace. Her other film credits include Forty Naughty Girls (1937), Moonlight in Havana (1942), The Argyle Secrets (1948), The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948), Masked Raiders (1949), The Lost Volcano (1950) and Rebel City (1953).

In 1957, Lord guest-starred on the first episode of the Western series Wagon Train, and years later she appeared with her daughter Anne in the 1978 CBS telefilm The Pirate, based on a Harold Robbins novel. Her last onscreen appearance came in a 1988 CBS telefilm, Side by Side, with her old friend Thomas.

Lord and Hale opened and ran Valley Music Theater in Los Angeles, but that business went under and he died of lung cancer in 1974.

She was married to L.A. banker Harry Volk, who helped found many cultural institutions in town, including the Music Center, from 1976 until his death in 2000.

Lord published a memoir, A Dance and a Hug, in 2004.

 



Filmography
Film
Year       Title       Role       Notes    Ref
1937      High Flyers          Arlene Arlington               Musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline.             
On Again-Off Again          Florence Cole     Musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline.             
Forty Naughty Girls         June Preston      American comedy directed by Edward F. Cline    
Hideaway            Joan Peterson    Comedy film directed by Richard Rosson               
Border Café        Janet Barry          Western film directed by Lew Landers    
1939      The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair          Babs      Directed by Robert R. Snody       
1942      Escape from Hong Kong                 Valerie Hale and Fraulein K          American comedy film directed by William Nigh.    
Moonlight in Havana      Patsy Clark          American romantic comedy film directed by Anthony Mann         
1943      Johnny Come Lately        Jane       Drama film directed by William K. Howard.          
Sherlock Holmes in Washington                 Nancy Partridge               
    The fifth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films.
    Directed by Roy William Neill.
Shantytown        Virginia Allen      Crime film directed by Joseph Santley    
Hi, Buddy             Mary Parker                      
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack    Janet Thompson               Serial based on comic strip directed by Lewis D. Collins and Ray Taylor          
1947      New Orleans      Grace Volcella    Musical romance film directed by Arthur Lubin  
1948      The Strange Mrs. Crane Gina Crane, alias of Jennie Hadley             Crime film-noir film directed by Sam Newfield                
The Argyle Secrets           Marta    Mystery romance directed by Cy Endfield             
1949      Masked Raiders                Gale Trevett aka Diablo Kid          Western directed by Lesley Selander      
Air Hostess          Jennifer White   Action drama directed by Lew Landers   
1950      Chain Gang         Rita McKelvey   American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Howard J. Green.
The Lost Volcano              Ruth Gordon      Adventure film directed by Ford Beebe
Riding High         Mary Winslow   Musical film directed by Frank Capra      
1951      Stop That Cab    Mary Thomas     Comedy, crime film directed by Eugenio de Liguoro         
Venture of Faith                               Drama directed by Frank R. Strayer         
1953      Mexican Manhunt           Sheila Barton     American crime film directed by Rex Bailey.         
Down Laredo Way           Valerie American western film directed by William Witney.         
1954      Port of Hell         Kay Walker         Drama directed by Harold D. Schuster    
1966      Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!               Mrs. Martha Meade        American comedy film directed by George Marshall.            

Television
Year       Title       Role       Notes    Ref
1949      Your Show Time                Guest    Episode: "The Real Thing" (S 1:Ep 8)        
1950      The Lone Ranger               Kitty McQueen Episode: "Bullets for Ballots" (S 1:Ep 35)                
1951      Hollywood Opening Night             Guest    Episode: "Hand on My Shoulder" (S 1:Ep 9)          
1952      Fireside Theatre                Sue Brown          Episode: "Brown of Calaveras" (S 4:Ep 33)            
Gwen    Episode: "Mirage" (S 4:Ep 41)     
China Smith        Ruth Cotton        Episode: "Devil-In-The-Godown" (S 1:Ep 6)           
Fireside Theatre                Catherine            Episode: "Visit from a Stranger" (S 5:Ep 5)            
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre     Guest    Episode: "Edge of the Law" (S 1:Ep 6)     
1953      Fireside Theatre                Guest    Episode: "The Return" (S 5: 19)  
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars              Guest    Episodew: "The Devil's Other Name" (S 2:Ep 25)
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre     Guest    Episode: "The Jewel" (S 1:Ep 35)               
Hallmark Hall of Fame    Sarah McCoy      Episode: "McCoy of Abilene" (S 3:Ep 4)  
Ramar of the Jungle        Lylia Webley       Episode: "Call to Danger" (S 2:Ep 6)         
1954      Ramar of the Jungle        Lylia Webley       Episode: "Blind Peril" (S 2:Ep 12)               
Four Star Playhouse        Bessie   Episode: "Operation In Money" (S 2:Ep 25)          
General Electric Theater                Millie     Episode: "That Other Sunlight" (S 2:Ep 17)            
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars              Guest    Episode: "Her Kind of Honor" (S 3:Ep 29)               
Hopalong Cassidy             Adele Keller        Episode: "Tricky Fingers" (S 2:Ep 26)       
Fireside Theatre                Guest    Episode: "Trial Period" (S 6:Ep 35)            
Cavalcade of America     Mrs. Field            Episode: "The Great Gamble" (S 3:Ep 20                
The Lone Wolf   Lori Race              Episode: "The Malibu Story (a.k.a. Malibu-Laguna)" (S 1:Ep 9)      
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre     Liz           Episode: "Shadow of Truth" (S 3:Ep 3)    
Climax! Guest    Episode: "Epitaph For a Spy" (S 1:Ep 8)   
1955      Cavalcade of America     Lee Powell Coleman        Episode: "Take Off Zero" (S 3:Ep 14)        
Guest    Episode: "Decision For Justice" (S 3:Ep 15)            
The Lone Ranger               Clare Lee              Episode: "The Law Lady" (S 4:Ep 25)        
Henry Fonda Presents the Star and the Story       Joan       Episode: "Newspaper Man" (S 1:Ep 19)  
Loretta Young Show        Miss Cook            Episode: "A Shadow Between" (S 3:Ep 16)            
1956      TV Reader's Digest           Guest    Epispde: "Lost, Strayed, and Lonely" (S 2:Ep 21)
Wire Service       Phyllis Holley      Episode: "Hideout" (S 1:Ep 3)     
1957      Zane Grey Theater           Amy Marr           
    Episode: "Decision At Wilson's Creek" (S 1:Ep 28)
    Rerun as Frontier Justice (S 1:Ep 6) in 1958 with the same episode title.
               
Wagon Train      Mary Palmer      Episode: "The Willy Moran Story (Pilot)" (S 1:Ep 1)            
1957–64               The Danny Thomas Show              Kathy 'Clancey' O'Hara Williams                 Main cast            
1958      The Ed Sullivan Show      Kathy Williams Episode: "September 21, 1958: CBS's Stars of the 1958-59 TV Season" (S 11:Ep 2)          
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse                Kathy Williams
    Episode: "Lucy Makes Room for Danny" (S 1:Ep 9)
    Also listed under The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour with the same episode title. (S 2:Ep 2)

               
1961      The Joey Bishop Show    Kathy Williams
    Episode: "This Is Your Life" (S 1:Ep 4)
    A spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show.
               
1967      The Danny Thomas Hour               Kathy Williams Episode: "Make More Room for Daddy" (S 1:Ep 9)            
1969      Love, American Style      Guest    Episode: "Love and the Single Couple" (S 1:Ep 13)             
1970–71               Make Room for Granddaddy       Kathy Williams
    Main cast
    Sequel to Make Room for Daddy (1953–1956)
    Make Room for Daddy changed its name to The Danny Thomas Show (1956–1964)

               
1975      The Missing Are Deadly Mrs. Robertson Television movie directed by Don McDougall.     
1978      Fantasy Island    Beth Shane         Episode: "Family Reunion / Voodoo" (S 1:Ep 4)   
The Pirate            Mrs. Mason       
    Made-for-television film directed by Ken Annakin.
    Based on the novel with the same name written by Harold Robbins.

1980      The Love Boat    Martha Rogers Episode: "April's Love/Happy Ending/We Three" (S 3:Ep 17)         
1987      Sweet Surrender              Joyce Holden     
    Main cast
    Short-lived American sitcom.

               
1988      Side by Side        Mrs. Hammerstein           Television movie directed by Jack Bender.            
Stage
Year       Title       Role       Theatre                Notes    Ref
1935      The Old Maid     Tina       Broadway            Replacement performer
1945      Signature             Nora Davisson   Original performer
1946      Little Brown Jug                Carol Barlow
1967      The Girl in the Freudian Slip         Paula Maugham