![]() ![]() Alice Ghostley was born in a train station in a place called "Eve" in Vernon County, Missouri as the second child of Harry F Ghostley and his wife Edna M Rooney. Teaming together in an act called The Ghostley Sisters, Alice eventually went solo and developed her own cabaret show as a singer and comedienne. Her father was at that time, a telegrapher at this "whistle stop", and shared quarters in the building. Wikipedia reports Alice's middle name as "Margaret", but I don't know on what authority.īy 1930, the family had moved to Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas where her father Harry was buried in 1933 having died at a hospital in Missouri that year. Alice's mother Edna never remarried, dying in 1965, 32 years later, in Oklahoma as "Edna Ghostley". Alice attended school in Siloam Springs through the sixth grade, and then the family moved to Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma where Alice finished growing up and graduated from high school.Īfterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City. Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week. She was best known for her roles as the bungling insecure Esmeralda (196970 1972) on Bewitched, as Cousin Alice (197071) on Mayberry R.F.D. She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood. Alice Margaret Ghostley (AugSeptember 21, 2007) was an American actress and singer. ![]() ![]() Ghostley was born in Eve, Missouri, in 1923 to Edna Muriel (née Rooney) and Harry Francis Ghostley, who worked as a telegraph operator. She attended the University of Oklahoma, but dropped out to pursue a career in theater. Alice spent much of her growing up years in Arkansas, Oklahoma. Ghostley first came to Broadway in Leonard Sillmans New Faces of 1952 and in the film version released in 1954. Her father worked as a telegraph operator. Miss Ghostley, whose husband, actor Felice Orlandi, died in 2003, is. George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. Alice Ghostley was born on Augin Eve, Vernon County, Missouri, to Harry Francis Ghostley and Edna Muriel (ne Rooney). After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Oklahoma but quit to move to New York with her sister Gladys. He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne. The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by Imogene Coca. One source states that it was Imogene who told Leonard Sillman about Ghostley, while another credits Murray Grand. Fred Flintstone would be envious This place was featured as one of the rentals shown on Netflix's 'The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals.' It’s a 4 bedroom 4 bathroom 5800sf of lodging. ![]()
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