Audrey Totter

Pin-up photo of Audrey Totter for Yank, the Army Weekly (1945)

Audrey Totter (born December 20, 1918 in Joliet , Illinois - † December 12, 2013 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Audrey Totter began her radio career, was signed to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film production company , and made her screen debut in Main Street After Dark in 1945 . In the Web of Passions was the first of a series of film noirs in which she appeared and which are now among her best-known films, including The Lady in the Lake , The Un suspect , Ring Free for Stoker Thompson and Tear Up . Totter was one of the actresses who were in conversation for the role of "Kitty Lester" in Robert Siodmak's Avengers of the Underworld , before it was awarded to Ava Gardner and made Gardner known overnight. From the early 1950s, after her contract with MGM ended, she increasingly shifted to appearances on television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , A Thousand Miles of Dust and The People of Shiloh Ranch . She last appeared in front of the camera in 1987 in the series Murder Is Her Hobby ( hereinafter Old Habits Die Hard ).

Audrey Totter was married to the doctor Leo Fred from 1953 until his death.

Filmography (selection)

1945: Main Street After Dark - Director: Edward L. Cahn
1945: Dangerous Partnership (Dangerous Partners) - Director: Edward L. Cahn
1945: The Sailor Takes a Wife - Director: Richard Whorf
1946: The Postman Always Rings Twice (The Postman Always Rings Twice) - Director: Tay Garnett
1946: The Cockeyed Miracle - Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
1947: Lady in the Lake (Lady in the Lake) - Director: Robert Montgomery
1947: The Beginning or the End - Directed by Norman Taurog
1947: The Unsuspected (The unsuspected) - Director: Michael Curtiz
1947: Indictment of Murder (High Wall) - Director: Curtis Bernhardt
1948: The Saxon Charm - Directed by Claude Binyon
1949: aka Nick Beal - Director: John Farrow
1949: Clear the Ring for Stoker Thompson (The Set-Up) - Director: Robert Wise
1949: stretched to breaking point (Tension) - Director: John Berry
1949: Any Number Can Play - Director: Mervyn LeRoy
1951: The Heart of a Mother (The Blue Veil) - Director: Curtis Bernhardt
1951: FBI Girl - Director: William Berke
1951: The Muzzle Before Eyes (Under the Gun) - Director: Ted Tetzlaff
1952: Budapest does not answer (Assignment: Paris) - Director: Robert Parrish
1953: On the death over (The Woman They Almost Lynched) - Director: Allan Dwan
1953: Man in the Dark - Director: Lew Landers
1955: Revolt in the Women's Prison - Director: Lewis Seiler
1955: Files XP 15 (A Bullet for Joey) - Directed by Lewis Allen
1955: The Vanishing American - Director: Joseph Kane
1958: Man or Gun - Director: Albert C. Gannaway
1964: The Insatiable (The Carpet Baggers)
1965: Harlow - Director: Alex Segal

Web links

Commons : Audrey Totter - collection of images

Audrey Totter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Interview with Audrey Totter on Thecolumnists.com (English)
Audrey Totter in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

↑ Paul Michael (Ed.): The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era. Prentice-Hall 1969, p. 232; Tracy Stevens (Ed.): International Television & Video Almanac 2002. Quigley Publishing, 2002, p. 421; Audrey Totter in the Internet Movie Database . The English Wikipedia entry gives 1917 as the year of birth, but the specified supporting sources Intelius.com and Ancestry.com are only available for a fee.
↑ PASSINGS: Audrey Totter
↑ ^a ^b ^c Geoff Mayer: Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press, Lanham (Maryland) 2012, pp. 372-373.
^ Joseph Greco: The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941–1951. Dissertation.com, 1999, ISBN 1-58112-081-8 , p. 91.
↑ James Bawden: Audrey Totter ( memento from September 23, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ) on Thecolumnists.com, accessed on February 24, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Totter, Audrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Joliet , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH	December 12th 2013
Place of death	Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California , United States

[1] Paul Michael (Ed.): The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era. Prentice-Hall 1969, p. 232; Tracy Stevens (Ed.): International Television & Video Almanac 2002. Quigley Publishing, 2002, p. 421; Audrey Totter in the Internet Movie Database . The English Wikipedia entry gives 1917 as the year of birth, but the specified supporting sources Intelius.com and Ancestry.com are only available for a fee.

[2] PASSINGS: Audrey Totter

[mayer-3] Geoff Mayer: Historical Dictionary of Crime Films. Scarecrow Press, Lanham (Maryland) 2012, pp. 372-373.

[4] Joseph Greco: The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941–1951. Dissertation.com, 1999, ISBN 1-58112-081-8 , p. 91.

[5] James Bawden: Audrey Totter ( memento from September 23, 2008 in the web archive archive.today ) on Thecolumnists.com, accessed on February 24, 2013.