Alice Ghostley Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alice Ghostley Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alice Margaret Ghostley (August , â€" September , ) was an American

actress and singer. She was best known for her roles as Esmeralda

(â€"; ) on Bewitched, as Cousin Alice (â€") on Mayberry R.F.D., and as

Bernice Clifton (â€") on Designing Women, for which she received an

Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in .

She was a regular on Nichols (â€") and The Julie Andrews Hour

(â€").Ghostley was born in Eve, Missouri, in to Edna Muriel (née

Rooney) and Harry Francis Ghostley, who worked as a telegraph

operator. She grew up in Henryetta, Oklahoma. She attended the

University of Oklahoma, but dropped out to pursue a career in

theater.Ghostley first came to Broadway in Leonard Sillman's New Faces

of and in the film version released in . She appeared in the revue A

Thurber Carnival and in The Beauty Part (), playing several distinct

roles in each. She also performed in several musical comedies,

including Shangri-La (). In , she succeeded Dorothy Loudon, who had

created the role of Miss Hannigan in the original Broadway run of the

musical Annie.[citation needed]A veteran of early television, Ghostley

appeared as Joy, one of the ugly stepsisters in the musical

television production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's

Cinderella, which starred Julie Andrews in the title role. The other

stepsister was played by actress Kaye Ballard. Twelve years later,

Ghostley guest-starred as a harried maternity nurse on Ballard's

comedy series, The Mothers-in-Law. Ghostley guest-starred on the NBC

police comedy, Car , Where Are You?, with Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne.

She portrayed recurring characters on several situation comedies,

beginning with Bewitched in in "Maid To Order", in which Ghostley

played an inept maid named Naomi, who was hired by Darrin Stephens

(played by Dick York) to assist his wife Samantha (Elizabeth

Montgomery) during her pregnancy. Towards the end of the â€" season,

actress-comedian Alice Pearce, who was featured as nosy neighbor

Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched, died. The producers of the series

immediately offered the role of Gladys to Ghostley, who refused it. As

a result, in the fall of , character actress Sandra Gould assumed the

role of Gladys. In September , after the death of actress Marion

Lorne, who played Aunt Clara, Ghostley joined Bewitched as a

semiregular in the role of Esmeralda, a shy witch who served as a maid

and babysitter to the Stephens' household. Ghostley's character of

Esmeralda was created to replace Aunt Clara's role as a bumbler of

magic. (Coincidentally, Ghostley and Lorne shared a brief scene

together in the film The Graduate, a few months prior to Lorne's

death and before Ghostley was cast in Bewitched.)
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