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Allyn Ann McLerie
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Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet …
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Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour. McLerie's best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978. McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allyn Ann McLerie, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Allyn Ann McLerie's Filmography
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Stranger in My Bed
as Shirley Hunter
Two Kinds of Love
as Aunt Emily
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
as Audrey Williams
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Aunt Polly
Fantasies
as Shirley
To Find My Son
as Mrs. Braggs
The Oldest Living Graduate
as Mrs. Hampton
A Shining Season
as Polly Baker
And Baby Makes Six
as Dora Finley
Return Engagement
as Florence
No Poster
Sister Terri
as Mother Superior Helen
All the President's Men
as Carolyn Abbott
The Entertainer
as Mrs. Pasko
Born Innocent
as Emma Lasko
Death Scream
as Alice Whitmore
Someone I Touched
as Jean
France, Incorporated
as The American
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Miss Martin
Cinderella Liberty
as Miss Watkins
The Way We Were
as Rhea Edwards
No Poster
Howzer
as Faye Carsell
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Mrs. Grigson
Jeremiah Johnson
as Crazy Woman
The Magnificent Seven Ride!
as Mrs. Donavan
The Cowboys
as Ellen Price
Monte Walsh
as Mary Eagle
The Reivers
as Alison
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
as Shirl
40 Pounds of Trouble
as Blanchard's Secretary (uncredited)
Battle Cry
as Ruby - Waitress in Diner
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
as Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)
Calamity Jane
as Katie Brown
The Desert Song
as Azuri
Where's Charley?
as Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie)
Words and Music
as Singer in Garrick Gaeities