Elisabeth Fraser

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Elisabeth Fraser Jonker (born January 8, 1920 in Brooklyn , New York - † May 5, 2005 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American actress.

life and career

Elisabeth Fraser, a native of Brooklyn, was discovered by chance by Alfred Lunt and Robert E. Sherwood for the New York theater. In 1940 she made her Broadway debut in Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night , which immediately opened the door to Hollywood for her. Here she was filming for Warner Brothers in the early 1940s , including starring a young woman who runs away with her fiancé in the comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner . Between December 1942 and May 1944, she appeared in three Broadway plays, including Moss Hart's military musical Winged Victory .

From the end of the 1940s, the blond-haired actress returned to film roles, including in the Arthur Miller films All My Sons and The Death of a Salesman On TV, she reached in the 1950s through her recurring role as Sgt. Joan Hogan , the long-suffering friend of lead actor Phil Silvers , on the Phil Silvers Show . After she appeared as the sister of her friend Doris Day in 1954 in Man Should Not Play With Love , she took on supporting roles in three other Doris Day films, including as her neighbor with many children in Babies to Order . Fraser had played this role a year earlier on Broadway. Fraser had one of her most famous film roles in 1965 alongside Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters in Dreaming Lips , at the same time she also appeared as a guest actress in television series such as On the Run , In Love with a Witch and The Addams Family .

After 1970 she was rarely in front of the camera, most recently in 1980 in the star-studded television film The Scarlett-O'Hara War . Elisabeth Fraser died of heart failure in May 2005 at the age of 85. From 1944 to the divorce in 1952, she was married to the actor and dancer Ray McDonald (1920-1959), they had three children. A second marriage with screenwriter Charles K. Peck junior (1921-1996) between 1952 and 1957 also ended in divorce.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Fraser, 85, Character Actress . In: The New York Times . May 18, 2005, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  2. ^ The Broadway League: Elisabeth Fraser - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  3. ^ Ronald Bergan: Obituary: Elisabeth Fraser . In: The Guardian . May 16, 2005, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  4. ^ The Broadway League: Elisabeth Fraser - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Elisabeth Fraser, 85, Character Actress . In: The New York Times . May 18, 2005, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  6. ^ Ray McDonald (IMDb). Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Fraser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Fraser, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraser Jonker, Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2005
Place of death Woodland Hills , California , United States