I always loved her on and in Topper. Fabulous lite comedienne, that Anne. She was so sexy and played off Robert Serling superbly. And Leo G. Carroll......I know she's totally faded from memory, and way before my time, but perhaps someone out there in DL land has stories, background info, gossip. Did she ever make it to Broadway?
Oops, typo...Sterling, not Serling. I'm in the Twilight Zone
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 12, 2022 3:52 PM |
Great show, thanks for the reminder.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 12, 2022 4:15 PM |
Really cool '50s chick
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 12, 2022 4:30 PM |
I don't know her.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 12, 2022 4:49 PM |
She was so elegant and refined.She was the Empress of All Fag Hags. Anne aged so gracefully. Madonna should have taken a page out of her book and had tasteful work done. Anne looked beautiful well into her 90s. She kept current by appearing on General Hospital where all the soap queens came to know her fabulousness.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 2, 2023 7:29 PM |
Jeffreys
After the passing of Ann Miller in 2004, "The Three Anns" became "The Two Anns."
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 2, 2023 8:01 PM |
AnnE
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 2, 2023 8:02 PM |
She's great on that Music Theatre of Lincoln Center revival recording of KISMET, which is in stereo (the original Broadway is not). She sings well and it's a shame she didn't record more, as she did plenty of musicals on stage. Especially from mid-career on she liked to work with her husband, Robert Sterling, in a package deal.
They used to practically have a monument to her in Goldsboro, NC, where she was born. It's about 30 minutes away from Smithfield, birthplace of Ava Gardner. She was very southern in that she was a Baptist Republican.
She kept right on working, even when she was old she was sharp enough to manage the grind of a daytime soap. She was on GENERAL HOSPITAL for a while. One of her last roles was a bed-bound woman who sings a bit in an episode of HBO's GETTING ON in 2013. Even when you're 90 I guess you still have to meet those SAG-AFTRA minimums to get coverage (see that other thread).
The interesting thing is that though she worked all the time, you'd be hard pressed to say where her fame peaked...maybe TOPPER? There probably wasn't any time she was a star in major demand, starring in the biggest tv show or opening the biggest Broadway smash, the name on everybody's lips. Her Broadway work was tours and replacements, and her film work didn't yield any true classics that have retained cultural currency.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 2, 2023 9:29 PM |
Anne and her good pal,Cesar Romero. She was his straight courtesan as if they were lovers. Even though they acted like lovers we knew the score.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 2, 2023 10:21 PM |