Elizabeth Allen
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Elizabeth Allen (born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, January 25, 1929 â September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which (1963's Donovan's Reef, for which she received a second-place Golden Laurel Award as Top New Female Personality, and 1964's Cheyenne Autumn) were directed by John Ford. She was a cast member in five TV series: The Jackie Gleason Show (1956â1957), Bracken's World (1969â1970), The Paul Lynde Show (1972â1973), C.P.O. Sharkey (1976â1977), and the daytime drama Texas (1980â1981), while also maintaining a thriving theatrical career as a musical comedy star and receiving two Tony nominations, in 1962 for The Gay Life and in 1965 for Do I Hear a Waltz?.
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