Phyllis Love
Phyllis Ann Love ( born December 21, 1925 in Des Moines, Iowa, † October 30, 2011 in Menifee, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Phyllis Love attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines; to their classmates belonged to the U.S. actress Cloris Leachman, with Love was life- long friends. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Love initially worked with a few local theater productions; From 1948 she studied acting training at the Actors Studio in New York City. She performed in the 1950s and 1960s as a stage actress on Broadway, including 1950/1951 in the role of Nancy Stoddard in the later successful with Grace Kelly filmed stage play The Country Girl by Clifford Odets. In the first performance of the play by Tennessee Williams The Rose tatöwierte 1951 she played the role of Rosa delle Rose; she embodied, on the side of Maureen Stapleton, daughter of standing in the center of the stage play seamstress Serafina Delle Rose. For this she received the Clarence Derwent Award New York as best young actress in the category " Most Promising Female".
In the film debut was in 1950 in the Love Crime Drama So young and so corrupt, in which, among other things, Paul Henreid and Rita Moreno were their partners. Her best-known film role was in 1956, directed by William Wyler as Mattie Birdwell Alluring in the film epic temptation. She embodied therein, the daughter of Gary Cooper played by Quaker Jess Birdwell, who falls in love with a cavalry officer ( Peter Mark Richman ). Another film role was in 1961 as Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander in the movie head physician Dr. Pearson. In it she played a young pregnant woman, whose baby is suffering in a hemolytic health disorder.
She also had episodic and guest roles in numerous American television series, including Suspicion ( 1958), At the foot of the Blue Mountains (1960), Gunsmoke (1961, 1964), Amazing Stories (1962 ), site of Los Angeles ( 1962) Perry Mason (1962, 1964 ), Dr. Kildare (1965 ), the Fugitive ( 1967), the Boss (1970) and Bonanza ( 1971, 1972). In the 1970s, Love retired from the film business and acting.
She later taught English language and drama at the Morningside High School in Inglewood, California.
Private
Love was married twice. In 1948 she married the playwright James Vincent McGee; the marriage was divorced in 1978. In his second marriage Love was married from 1983 until her death with Alan Paul Gooding.
Love died on 30 October 2011 at the age of 85 at her home in Menifee in Riverside County. She suffered from Alzheimer's disease.