Charita Bauer

Charita Bauer ( born December 20, 1922 in Newark, New Jersey, USA, † 28 February 1985 in New York City, New York ) was an American actress. It became known as Bertha " Bert" Bauer on the soap opera Guiding Light.

Life

Bauer was active from 1933 to 1944 on Broadway before she played until her death in Springfield Story in U.S. television, first from 1949 to 1950 in the series The Aldrich Family, and of 1952. This role was previously embodied in the radio. Even with her ​​only movie, Satan in white from 1983, she gave a cameo as Bert Bauer.

In the role of all personal misfortunes flowed with. As a farmer in 1960 was diagnosed with abdominal cancer and had to undergo a treatment that also fought Bert against cancer. Shortly before her death, she was amputated because of a diabetes disease a leg and this time the disease has been fitted with its consequences in the series, so they also in a wheelchair could continue playing their role Bert. As a manufacturer of health in 1984 so far deteriorated that they could not occur before the camera, her partner Bert was sent to a long visit with her sister.

Even as a farmer died in 1985, lived Bert Bauer - this time from a different actress speaking - on the phone the Springfield Story continues. Only a year later did the producers Bert die and honored Farmer with an episode that was her acting work in the series of flashbacks to almost forty years.