"Where's Charley?" Allyn McLerie Hand Signed TLS Dated 1952 Todd Mueller COA

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"Where's Charley?" Allyn McLerie Hand Signed TLS Dated 1952.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Allyn Ann McLerie
(December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born,
Brooklyn
-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age
musical theatre
's major choreographers, including
George Balanchine
,
Agnes de Mille
, and
Jerome Robbins
.
McLerie was born in
Grand-Mère, Quebec
, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897-1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888-1926). She moved with her widowed mother to the United States at age one. (McLerie's mother, Vera, died on her daughter's 54th birthday in 1980 at age 83.) Allyn studied dancing at a studio in
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
, and made her Broadway debut as a teenager in
Kurt Weill
's
One Touch of Venus
.
She went on to replace
Sono Osato
as Ivy in
On the Town
, then played Amy Spettigue in the 1948
Broadway
production of
Where's Charley?
(
Theatre World Award
).A life member of
The Actors Studio
,
[9]
McLerie's other Broadway credits include
Miss Liberty
, the drama
Time Limit
,
Redhead
(understudying
Gwen Verdon
), and
West Side Story
. McLerie danced as a guest soloist with
American Ballet Theatre
during its 1950-51 European and South American tour.
[
Perhaps some of McLerie's better-known film appearances are as Amy in
Where's Charley?
(1952), Katie Brown in
Calamity Jane
(1953), Shirley in
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
(1969) and as The Crazy Woman in
Jeremiah Johnson
(1972). Other film work includes
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
(1954),
The Cowboys
(1972),
The Way We Were
(1973),
Cinderella Liberty
(1973), and TV movies such as
Born Innocent
(1974) and
Death Scream
(1975). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as
Bonanza
,
The Waltons
,
The Love Boat
,
Barney Miller
,
Benson
,
Hart to Hart
,
St. Elsewhere
, and
Dynasty
, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner,
Tony Randall
's dour and priggish secretary, on
The Tony Randall Show
(1976–78). McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife Carmen on
WKRP in Cincinnati
(1978–82). She appeared in three episodes of
Punky Brewster
alongside her husband,
George Gaynes
(1984). She may be best remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
(1987–91). Her last role was on an episode of
Brooklyn Bridge
in 1993.