Elizabeth Allen

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  • ELIZABETH ALLEN


    Information from IMDb


    Date of Birth
    25 January 1929, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA


    Date of Death
    19 September 2006, Fishkill, New York, USA (kidney failure)


    Birth Name
    Elizabeth Ellen Gillease


    Spouse
    Baron Carl von Virringhoff-Schell (23 October 1952 - 1955) (divorced)


    Trivia
    Tall, striking actress who retired in 1980, perhaps best remembered as the strange department store saleswoman in "The Twilight Zone" (1959) episode featuring Anne Francis as a mannequin who became a live woman for a month.


    Is also remembered for her introductions on "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1966). She was known as "The Away We Go" girl, who every week introduced Jackie's variety skits with that immortal phrase.


    Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1962, as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "The Gay Life," and in 1965 as Best Actress (Musical) for Richard Rodgers' "Do I Hear a Waltz?"


    She started out as a fashion model with the Ford Modeling Agency. She was a member of the Helen Hayes Repertory Company for several years. Her first starring role on Broadway was Juliet in David Merrick's 1957 production of "Romanoff and Juliet".


    She was married briefly to Baron Karl von Vietinghoff-Scheel, but they divorced and she never remarried.
    Allen died from kidney disease, aged 72, in Fishkill, New York. She was predeceased by her only sibling, brother Joseph L. Gillease, and survived by her sister-in-law, Marion Gillease, her nephew and Godson, Patrick J. Gillease, her niece, Erin Gillease Phelan, and two grand-nieces, Alicia Phelan and Alexandria Phelan.


    Mini-Biography
    Born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey, she began her career as a Ford Agency high-fashion model before landing the television role of the “Away We Go!” girl on The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s. Thereafter, she honed her stage skills by joining and performing with the Helen Hayes Repertory Group before expanding into the big and small screens. Elizabeth made numerous television appearances in guest starring roles on such programs as The Fugitive, Kojak, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She was also a regular cast member on TV's Bracken's World, The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Another World and its spin-off, Texas. Her television, film and stage career spanned three decades.
    Allen is perhaps best known on TV for her role as the creepy saleslady in the first-season episode of Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone, entitled "The After Hours", where actress Anne Francis (playing 'Miss Marsha White') finally realizes that she is a mannequin and that her month of freedom and living among the humans is over. Allen's saleslady character (seen by no one but Marsha) is the mannequin whose turn in the outside world is up next and has already been delayed by one full day, thus explaining her slightly peeved attitude.
    In 1963, Allen starred with John Wayne, Dorothy Lamour and Lee Marvin in the John Ford film Donovan's Reef. She also starred in Diamond Head with Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux. Both movies were filmed on location in Hawaii. Allen also appeared with James Stewart in Cheyenne Autumn and won a Laurel Award in 1963 as the year's most promising film actress.
    She was twice nominated for Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in The Gay Life and Do I Hear a Waltz?. She can be heard singing beautifully throughout the original cast album of Waltz, available on CD. Her other notable stage productions on the Great White Way and beyond included Romanoff and Juliet, Lend an Ear, Sherry!, California Suite, The Pajama Game, The Tender Trap, Show Boat, South Pacific, and culminating in the 1980s Broadway musical 42nd Street, as fading star Dorothy Brock.
    Allen quietly retired from show business in 1996, after touring numerous cities throughout the world for over a decade with her 42nd Street role from Broadway. This was her last, significant acting job after appearing in the 1980s TV series Texas for two seasons.
    from wikipedia


    Filmography
    Actor
    1983 The Guiding Light (TV series) ...Dr. Gwen Harding
    1980-1982 Texas (TV series)
    – Episode #1.279 (1981) … Victoria Bellman
    – Episode #1.271 (1981) … Victoria Bellman
    – Episode #1.270 (1981) … Victoria Bellman
    – Episode #1.268 (1981) … Victoria Bellman
    – Episode #1.267 (1981) … Victoria Bellman
    In all 51 episodes »
    1980 Another World (TV series) ...Victoria Bellman
    1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) – Return of the Fighting 69th (1979) … Roxanne Trent
    1979 No Other Love (TV movie) ...Jean Michaels
    1977 NBC Special Treat (TV series) – Five Finger Discount (1977) … Sgt. Juder
    1976-1977 C.P.O. Sharkey (TV series)
    – A Wino Is Loose (1977) … Capt. Quinlan
    – The Pizza Party (1977) … Capt. Quinlan
    – Sharkey's Secret Life (1977) … Capt. Quinlan
    – Sharkey the Marriage Counselor (1977) … Capt. Quinlan
    – Sharkey Finds Peace and Quiet (1977) … Capt. Quinlan
    In all 15 episodes »
    1976 Barnaby Jones (TV series) – Silent Vendetta (1976) … Lottie
    1975 Cannon (TV series)– Nightmare (1975) … Arlene Thompson Richards
    1974 Insight (TV series) – Resuscitation (1974) … Ginny
    1974 Kojak (TV series) ..Louise Linden– Therapy in Dynamite (1974) … Louise Linden
    1974 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (TV series) – Mother of the Bride (1974) … Amy Whitman
    1973 Faraday and Company (TV series) – Fire and Ice (1973) … Ms.
    1972-1973 The Paul Lynde Show (TV series) – Springtime for Paul (1973) … Martha Simms
    – Togetherness (1973) … Martha Simms
    – Barbara Goes Home to Mother (1973) … Martha Simms
    – Back Talk (1973) … Martha Simms
    – Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Mother-in-Law But Were Afraid to Ask (1973) … Martha Simms
    In all 26 episodes »
    1972 The Carey Treatment ...Evelyn Randall
    1971 Star Spangled Girl ..Landlady
    1971 Mannix (TV series) – Days Beyond Recall (1971) … Westy Westcott
    1971 The Young Lawyers (TV series) – Conrad and the Taxi Squad (1971) … Doris Pierce
    1969-1970 Bracken's World (TV series)
    – Miss Isabel Blue (1970) … Laura Deane
    – The Country Boy (1970) … Laura Deane
    – Will Freddy's Real Father Please Stand Up? (1970) … Laura Deane
    – A Score Without Strings (1970) … Laura Deane
    – Nude Scene (1970) … Laura Deane
    In all 41 episodes »
    1970 Paris 7000 (TV series) – Elegy for Edward Shelby (1970)
    1969 The High Chaparral (TV series) – The Glory Soldiers (1969) … Sister Ellie Strong


    1963-1966 The Fugitive (TV series) ...Louanne Crowell / Ruth Harmon / Sharon
    – The Evil Men Do (1966) … Sharon
    – Detour on a Road Going Nowhere (1964) … Louanne Crowell
    – Terror at High Point (1963) … Ruth Harmon
    1966 The F.B.I. (TV series)– The Death Wind (1966) … Gloria Jennerson
    1966 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
    – No Other Road (1966) … Katherine West
    – I Can Hear the Ice Melting (1966) … Katherine West
    – Some Tales for Halloween (1966) … Katherine West
    – A Few Hearts, a Few Flowers (1966) … Katherine West
    1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series) – The Waverly Ring Affair (1966) … Carla Drosten
    1964 The Reporter (TV series) – The Lost Lady Blues (1964) … Belle Sommers
    1964 Cheyenne Autumn ...Miss Plantagenet
    1964 Slattery's People (TV series) – Question: What Is Truth? (1964) … Pat Russell
    1963-1964 Burke's Law (TV series) ..Miss Elizabeth Dunwoody / Sophia, Burke's Girlfriend
    – Who Killed What's His Name? (1964) … Miss Elizabeth Dunwoody
    – Who Killed Holly Howard? (1963) … Sophia, Burke's Girlfriend
    1963 Donovan's Reef ...Ameilia Dedham
    1960-1963 Naked City (TV series) ..Emily Kanopolis / Laura Lanning / Ola Martini
    – Barefoot on a Bed of Coals (1963) … Ola Martini
    – Golden Lads and Girls (1963) … Laura Lanning
    – The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half (1960) … Emily Kanopolis
    1963 Stoney Burke (TV series) – Kelly's Place (1963) … Kelly
    1963 Combat! (TV series) – No Hallelujahs for Glory (1963) … Eleanora Hunt
    1963 Ben Casey (TV series) – Suffer the Little Children (1963) … Dr. Alison Blake
    1963 Diamond Head ...Laura Beckett
    1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series) – The Thirty-First of February (1963) … Molly O'Rourke
    1961 Bachelor Father (TV series) ...Madeline / Marilyn Marsh
    – The Law and Kelly Gregg (1961) … Madeline
    – The House at Smuggler's Cove (1961) … Marilyn Marsh
    1961 Alcoa Premiere (TV series) – The Fugitive Eye (1961) … Nurse
    1961 77 Sunset Strip (TV series) – The Desert Spa Caper (1961)
    1961 Thriller (TV series) ...Dorothy Lyndon / Liz Talmadge
    – The Grim Reaper (1961) … Dorothy Lyndon
    – The Hungry Glass (1961) … Liz Talmadge
    1961 Route 66 (TV series) – Most Vanquished, Most Victorious (1961) … Alice
    1960 Checkmate (TV series) – The Murder Game (1960) … Cora Scott Leslie
    1960 From the Terrace ...Sage Rimmington
    1960 The Twilight Zone (TV series) – The After Hours (1960) … Saleswoman
    1960 Tales of Wells Fargo (TV series) – Threat of Death (1960) … Ilona

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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  • Elizabeth Allen starred with Duke in only 1 movie


    Donovan's Reef 1963...Ameilia Dedham


    John_Wayne-Elizabeth_Allen_in_Donovan's_Reef.jpg


    One of Duke's 'forgotten' leading ladies,
    who was in many favourite TV series,
    and also John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn


    And this from our Movie Review:-

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

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