![]() Ghostley, whose actor husband, Felice Orlandi, died in 2003, is survived by her sister Gladys. “But I also knew I’d find a way,” she added. I knew I looked like a character actress.” “I knew I didn’t look like an ingenue,” she told the Globe. She was well aware of the types of roles she should pursue. ![]() What I saw before me was a visualization of what I wanted to do and what I wanted to be.” “The best job I had then was as a theater usher,” she said in a 1990 Boston Globe interview. ![]() This is a list of characters in Bewitched, an American fantasy television sitcom which aired from 1964 to 1972. She grew up in Henryetta, Okla.Īfter graduating from high school, Ghostley attended the University of Oklahoma but dropped out and moved to New York with her sister to pursue the theater. Agnes Moorehead as Endora, Dick York as Darrin Stephens and Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha. 14, 1926, in Eve, Mo., where her father worked as a telegraph operator. Ghostley’s film credits included “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Graduate,” “Gator” and “Grease.” In the 1960s Ghostley received a Tony nomination for various characterizations in the Broadway comedy “The Beauty Part” and eventually won for best featured actress in “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.”įrom 1969 to 1972, Ghostley played the timid good witch and ditsy housekeeper Esmeralda on television’s “Bewitched.” She played Bernice Clifton on “Designing Women” from 1987 to 1993, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 1992. “She was rather plain and had a splendid singing voice,” Kreuger said, “and the combination of the well-trained, splendid singing voice and this kind of dowdy homemaker character was so incongruous and so charming.” The sisters are interred next to their parents. On August 20, 2009, her ashes were taken to Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, to be buried with her sister, Gladys (died June 21, 2009). Miles Kreuger, president of the Los Angeles-based Institute of the American Musical, who saw “New Faces of 1952” said part of Ghostley’s charm was that she was not glamorous. Alice Ghostley died at her home in Studio City, California, on Septemafter a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes. Ghostley’s Broadway debut was in “Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952.” She received critical acclaim for singing “The Boston Beguine,” which became her signature song. Miss Ghostley, whose husband, actor Felice Orlandi, died in 2003, is. Ghostley died at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes, said longtime friend Jim Pinkston. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Oklahoma but quit to move to New York with her sister Gladys. Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on “Bewitched” and Bernice on “Designing Women,” died Friday.
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