Ghostley's actor husband, Felice Orlandi, died in 2003. "But I also knew I'd find a way," she added. ![]() Studio City, CA, 21 September 2007) is best remembered as the fade-in, fade-out bumbling babysitter witch Esmeralda on the TV sitcom Bewitched (premiered 1964) from 1969 to 1972, and as the batty Bernice in Designing Women (in 1993). I knew I looked like a character actress. Eccentric comedienne and sometime songstress Alice Ghostley ( b. "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 theatre usher," she said in a 1990 Boston Globe interview. ![]() 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 theatre. She felt uncomfortable taking over the part because she had been close friends with Pearce. 14, 1926, in Eve, Mo., where her father worked as a telegraph operator. Sandra Gould (J July 20, 1999) was an American actress, known for her role as Gladys Kravitz on the sitcom Bewitched. Ghostley's film credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Gator and Grease. She played Bernice Clifton on Designing Women from 1987 to 1993, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 1992. 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, she played the good witch and ditzy housekeeper Esmeralda on TV's Bewitched. "She was rather plain and had a splendid singing voice, and the combination of the well-trained, splendid singing voice and this kind of dowdy homemaker character was so incongruous and so charming," Kreuger said. Miles Kreuger, president of the Los Angeles-based Institute of the American Musical, said part of Ghostley's charm was that she was not glamorous. She received critical acclaim for singing The Boston Beguine, which became her signature song. It’s probably where I first saw her, and millions continue to associate her primarily with the part. NOW: my temptation was to open to talking about one of her most memorable roles, as Esmerelda on Bewitched. The grave is marked The Ghostley Sisters. Ghostley made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952. But when Ghostley died in 2007, she chose to be buried with her sister Gladys in Arkansas. ![]() Ghostley, whose television career followed success on Broadway, died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes, longtime friend Jim Pinkston said. Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress known on television for playing Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice on Designing Women, has died.
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