Bobbi Jordan
Bobbi Jordan ( born April 4, 1937 in Hardinsburg, Kentucky, † November 9, 2012 in Encinitas, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Jordan was born as Roberta Carol Bartlett in Hardinsburg in the U.S. state of Kentucky; where she also grew up. She wanted to be an opera singer originally. First, therefore went to Chicago and then to Los Angeles to study singing. With various jobs as a waitress she stayed in this time in California financially afloat. The manager of a night club where Jordan worked, she heard singing in the kitchen and gave her the chance to audition for a musical that should be listed in the nightclub. Jordan received the lead role in the production, a modern version of the Cinderella fabric. Soon after, she was taken from the William Morris Agency, a renowned American artist agency, under contract.
Jordan was always active in the course of her career as a stage actress and musical actress. She took over the lead role in the first statewide touring production of the musical Company by Stephen Sondheim. They also usually played in regional productions of musicals, including South Pacific, Guys and Dolls and Damn Yankees.
From the 1960s, Jordan worked mainly for television. Your first continuous series main role was in 1966 in the ABC Western series The unlucky ones. Special recognition she received the mid-1970s through their involvement in the soap opera General Hospital. She embodied the night club owner and former nightclub singer Terri Webber Arnett. Three years belonged to Jordan the main cast of the series.
She also had numerous episode roles and guest roles in American TV series, including The Man from UNCLE (1967 ), The Boss (1969 ), The Odd Couple (1973 ), Police Story (1974 ), Joe and Sons ( 1975/1976 ), Charlie's Angels (1979 ), Quincy ( 1979, 1981), Nero Wolfe ( 1981), Highway to Heaven (1987) and Days of Our Lives (1993).
Jordan also starred in several movies with; there they had mostly small supporting roles. Your cinema debut was in 1967 as a waitress in the film comedy guide for Sidewalks, with Walter Matthau in the lead role. In the movie musical Mame (1974 ) with Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur in the lead roles, she played Pegeen, a chambermaid at Mame Dennis, which it finally manages Mames nephew Patrick ( played by Bruce Davison ) to marry.
Private
Jordan was married to screenwriter Bill Jacobson, the chief author of the entertainment show, The Kate Smith Show. The marriage was a son, Jordan Roberts, out. Bill Jacobson died 2011. Bobbi Jordan died at the age of 75 years at her home in Encinitas, California of heart failure.