Katharine Elizabeth Garde (September , â€" December , ) was an
American stage, radio, film and television actress.Born in
Philadelphia, Garde was starring in productions of South
Philadelphia's Broadway Players by age . She attended the University
of Pennsylvania.On the stage since the early s, Garde made her
Broadway debut as Alma Borden in Easy Come, Easy Go (â€") and played
character roles in productions including The Social Register (â€") and
The Primrose Path (). A tall woman, standing '", she was cast as Aunt
Eller in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! She also
portrayed Mrs. Gordon in Agatha Sue, I Love You ().After joining CBS
in , Garde began to work extensively in radio, performing on some
three dozen shows including Lorenzo Jones, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch, The Big Story, The Eddie Cantor Show (on which she played "all
the women roles"), Front Page Farrell, Maudie's Diary, Perry Mason,
Theatre Guild on the Air and The Fat Man. In Garde worked with Orson
Welles on the CBS Radio series The American School of the Air, and she
later performed in Welles' radio series including Les Misérables, The
Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse and Ceiling
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American stage, radio, film and television actress.Born in
Philadelphia, Garde was starring in productions of South
Philadelphia's Broadway Players by age . She attended the University
of Pennsylvania.On the stage since the early s, Garde made her
Broadway debut as Alma Borden in Easy Come, Easy Go (â€") and played
character roles in productions including The Social Register (â€") and
The Primrose Path (). A tall woman, standing '", she was cast as Aunt
Eller in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! She also
portrayed Mrs. Gordon in Agatha Sue, I Love You ().After joining CBS
in , Garde began to work extensively in radio, performing on some
three dozen shows including Lorenzo Jones, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch, The Big Story, The Eddie Cantor Show (on which she played "all
the women roles"), Front Page Farrell, Maudie's Diary, Perry Mason,
Theatre Guild on the Air and The Fat Man. In Garde worked with Orson
Welles on the CBS Radio series The American School of the Air, and she
later performed in Welles' radio series including Les Misérables, The
Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse and Ceiling
Unlimited.:, , ,
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