ALICE PEARCE: Beauty Inside

Homely scene-stealer Alice Pearce, in her film debut, cuts up as sailor Gene Kelly’s unfortunate blind date in the sprightly musical ON THE TOWN (1949)
The shrill Glady Kravitz (Alice Pearce) and complacent husband Abner (George Tobias) are the hilarious nosy neighbors in the spell-binding TV sitcom BEWITCHED (1964-1972)

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Isuue Number 417,
March 2010

“Playing strange, sweet oddballs is exactly my cup of tea.”

While character comedienne ALICE PEARCE (1917-1966) was no raving beauty and seemed destined to play the eternal wallflower or homely stepsister in every Cinderella story, this talented funny girl made terrific use of her malleable mug and gawky gait, creating an offbeat career for herself in nightclubs and musical revues until Broadway, TV and comedy films came along. An avid scene-stealer in her very first film, ON THE TOWN (1949), she had audiences in stitches with a single sniff, sneeze, gulp or giggle. She later played the inveterate gossip, nagging wife or beleaguered mom, culminating in her hysterically funny, Emmy-winning turn as Gladys Kravitz on the popular 60’s BEWITCHED TV series.

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