Lori March

Lori March (born March 6, 1923 in Hollywood , Los Angeles , California , as Lori von Eltz ; † March 19, 2013 in Redding , Connecticut ), married Lori March Scourby , Lori March Taubman and Lori March Williams , was an American Actress . She was best known for roles in TV soap operas .

Life

Lori von Eltz was born as the daughter of the actor Theodore von Eltz and the screenwriter Peggy Prior . When the parents divorced in 1928, a bitter custody battle broke out, as a result of which Lori and her brother Ted were placed in a nursing home. After his mother's marriage to the writer and screenwriter Joseph Moncure March , Lori was adopted by him and took his surname. She attended Beverly Hills High School. In 1939 she went to New York City . There she studied at the HB Studio drama school. She first appeared on stage in 1940.

In 1943 she met Alexander Scourby , an actor ten years her senior who had already made a name for himself as a speaker of audio books and on the radio; His complete recording of the King James Bible , published in 1966, is known to this day . Alexander Scourby and Lori March married on March 12, 1943. After the birth of their only child, daughter Alexandra, March interrupted her career from 1944 for several years and contented herself with the role of housewife and mother. The couple had an apartment in New York City and a house in Connecticut , where March could devote himself to her great passion, gardening.

From 1952, March appeared in guest roles in television series , for the first time in an episode of Manhunt . This was followed by appearances in The Adventures of Ellery Queen , Men against Crime , Justice , Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Perry Mason ; In the latter series, she played two murder suspects, who are represented by the title hero in court. It also appeared more frequently in TV dramas that were very popular at the time and often broadcast live, which were based on stage and film material or were written specifically for this purpose and as an "Anthology Series" under titles such as Robert Montgomery Presents , The United States Steel Hour or Armstrong Circle Theater aired in series. In addition, there were occasional appearances on Broadway or off-Broadway stages, for example as the second cast of Olivia in Der Kreidegarten ( The Chalk Garden , 1955/1956) by Enid Bagnold , and in the two feature films Abduction (in which her husband also participated) and Lovers and Lollipops (both 1956). From 1956 to 1958 she played the role of Lenore Bradley in the CBS soap opera The Brighter Day .

Greater awareness reached the 1960 first broadcast episode "Third from the Sun" series Amazing Stories ( Twilight Zone ), in March, who lives on a military base wife of a soldier (played by Fritz Weaver ) plays the plans with this and another couple to steal a spaceship to escape an impending nuclear war on Earth .

From 1964 until the series was discontinued in 1974, March played the role of Valerie Hill Ames Northcote in the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm , with Alexander Scourby also impersonating her television husband for several years. After that, she appeared mainly in smaller theaters in Connecticut and New York, also here repeatedly at the side of her husband. She also took on roles in TV soap operas, from 1977 to 1979 as Adele Huddleston in Love, Lies, Passion ( One Life to Live ) and with shorter appearances in Search for Tomorrow (1977), The Edge of Night (1979), Springfield Story ( Guiding Light , 1987) and Another World (1988), her final television role. Her long-standing participation in soap operas earned March the title "First Lady of Daytime Television".

She was married three times and outlived all of her husbands. After the death of Alexander Scourby in 1985, she married the writer and music and theater critic Howard Taubman (1907-1996) in 1988 and Milton L. Williams (died 2008) in 1996, who worked in a leading position in the advertising industry.

Lori March died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Redding, Connecticut on March 19, 2013, shortly after her 90th birthday.

Filmography

Feature films

• 1956: Abduction ( ransom! ), Directed by Alex Segal
• 1956: Lovers and Lollipops, directed by Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin

TV series (selection)

• 1952: Manhunt
• 1952: The Adventures of Ellery Queen
• 1953: Three Steps to Heaven
• 1955: Justice
• 1956: Star Tonight
• 1956-1958: The Brighter Day
• 1958: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• 1958–1964: Perry Mason (5 episodes)
• 1959: Border Patrol
• 1960: Incredible Stories ( The Twilight Zone ), episode "Third from the Sun"
• 1960: No case for FBI ( The Detectives )
• 1962: The Tall Man
• 1964-1974: The Secret Storm
• 1977: Search for Tomorrow
• 1977–1979: Love, Lie, Passion ( One Life to Live )
• 1982: Texas
• 1984: Another Life
• 1987: Springfield Story ( Guiding Light )
• 1988: Another World

literature

• Anita Gates: "Lori March, 'Secret Storm' Actress, Dies at 90". New York Times obituary , March 26, 2013.
• "Lori Scourby, Wife of Alexander Scourby, Dies at Age 90". Obituary dated March 22, 2013.
• "Actress Lori March Scourby Dies at 90". Obituary by The Hollywood Reporter, March 25, 2013.

Web links

• Lori March in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lori March in the Internet Broadway Database (English)