Alice Pearce (October , â€" March , ) was an American actress. She
was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway
performance in the film version of On the Town (). Pearce played
comedic supporting roles in several films, before being cast as nosy
neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched in . She
won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Comedy Series posthumously after the second season of the series. She
died from ovarian cancer in .Pearce was born in New York City, the
only child of Margaret Clark and Robert E. Pearce. Her father was a
foreign banking specialist, and her family moved to Europe when she
was months old. They lived in Brussels, Antwerp, Rome, and Paris. At
age nine, she fell off a swing after losing her grip and landed on her
chin. This left her with an undeveloped chin. She returned to the
United States as a teenager, and boarded at the Masters School in
Dobbs Ferry, New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in ,
with a degree in drama.She began working in nightclubs as a comedian
and was cast in the original Broadway production of On the Town (â€").
Gene Kelly was so impressed by her that she became the only cast
member to be included in the film version in . Her comedic performance
was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her
own television variety show, The Alice Pearce Show. More movie roles
followed, and she made appearances on Broadway, where she met her
husband, director Paul Davis, during a production of Bells Are
Ringing.
was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway
performance in the film version of On the Town (). Pearce played
comedic supporting roles in several films, before being cast as nosy
neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched in . She
won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Comedy Series posthumously after the second season of the series. She
died from ovarian cancer in .Pearce was born in New York City, the
only child of Margaret Clark and Robert E. Pearce. Her father was a
foreign banking specialist, and her family moved to Europe when she
was months old. They lived in Brussels, Antwerp, Rome, and Paris. At
age nine, she fell off a swing after losing her grip and landed on her
chin. This left her with an undeveloped chin. She returned to the
United States as a teenager, and boarded at the Masters School in
Dobbs Ferry, New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in ,
with a degree in drama.She began working in nightclubs as a comedian
and was cast in the original Broadway production of On the Town (â€").
Gene Kelly was so impressed by her that she became the only cast
member to be included in the film version in . Her comedic performance
was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her
own television variety show, The Alice Pearce Show. More movie roles
followed, and she made appearances on Broadway, where she met her
husband, director Paul Davis, during a production of Bells Are
Ringing.
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