Arlene Golonka
Arlene Golonka ( born January 23, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American actress.
Life
Golonka first studied acting at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago before they moved at the age of 19 years to New York City, where she studied with Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen.
In 1958 she joined the Shubert Theater in New Haven on the side of Ben Gazzara first time on a big stage. The play later moved to Broadway, but was quickly dropped off there. It reach her but new Broadway engagements, including Neil Simon 's first Broadway play Come Blow Your Horn ( If it could speak my bedroom ) with 677 performances as well as in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Kirk Douglas in the lead role.
In 1967, she moved to Los Angeles and began a career as a television actress. In addition to guest appearances in television series such as M * A * S * H, tennis, Spy or FBI, she had a recurring role in the produced 1968-1971 series Mayberry RFD. A first small feature film appearance was Golonka 1963 in Arthur Hiller's Love in a strangers. Larger roles followed a few years later in the Western Hang 'Em High and incendiaries of Arkansas. In the 1970s she played among others in Airport '77 - Lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Since the 1980s, it mainly acts in television series, most recently in 2005 in King of Queens.