Darlene Conley (July 18, 1934 â€" January 14, 2007) was an American
actress.Conley's career spanned fifty years, but she was best known
for her performances in daytime television, and in particular, for her
portrayal of larger-than-life fashion industrialist Sally Spectra on
The Bold and the Beautiful. Conley played the role from 1989 until her
death eighteen years later. Darlene's character Sally is the only soap
opera character to be displayed at Madame Tussaud's wax figures
galleries in Amsterdam and Las Vegas.Conley, an Irish American, was
born south of Chicago in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the daughter of
Melba (née Manthey) and Raymond Conley. In the late 1950s and early
1960s, Conley was employed with the traveling theater group the
Chicago Uptown Circuit Players and Playwrights Company. She earned a
bit part in the movie The Birds, which was followed by similar small
roles in movies like Valley of the Dolls and Lady Sings the Blues.
Darlene also appeared in the first episode of the fifth season of The
Mary Tyler Moore Show as a prison warden. Darlene appeared on Little
House on the Prairie in 1981, in the episode entitled "A Wiser Heart."
actress.Conley's career spanned fifty years, but she was best known
for her performances in daytime television, and in particular, for her
portrayal of larger-than-life fashion industrialist Sally Spectra on
The Bold and the Beautiful. Conley played the role from 1989 until her
death eighteen years later. Darlene's character Sally is the only soap
opera character to be displayed at Madame Tussaud's wax figures
galleries in Amsterdam and Las Vegas.Conley, an Irish American, was
born south of Chicago in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the daughter of
Melba (née Manthey) and Raymond Conley. In the late 1950s and early
1960s, Conley was employed with the traveling theater group the
Chicago Uptown Circuit Players and Playwrights Company. She earned a
bit part in the movie The Birds, which was followed by similar small
roles in movies like Valley of the Dolls and Lady Sings the Blues.
Darlene also appeared in the first episode of the fifth season of The
Mary Tyler Moore Show as a prison warden. Darlene appeared on Little
House on the Prairie in 1981, in the episode entitled "A Wiser Heart."
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