Posted on 03/24/2017 11:09:24 AM PDT by EveningStar
Lola Albright, an actress and singer perhaps best known for her role as Edie Hart on the Peter Gunn TV series, died on March 23, 2017 at the age of 92.
From the Wikipedia article:
IMDb pageAlbright's motion picture career began with a bit part in the 1947 film The Unfinished Dance, and gained notice in the 1949 film Champion. For the next several years, she appeared in secondary roles in over 20 films, including several 'B' Westerns.
Albright's roles in major films included Elvis Presley's 1962 film Kid Galahad; the 1964 French film Les Felins (director René Clément), and the 1967 western epic The Way West...
In 1958, she was cast on Peter Gunn, the television detective series produced by Blake Edwards and scored by Henry Mancini. Albright played Edie Hart, a nightclub singer and the romantic interest of Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens)...
Lola's second husband was actor Jack Carson (of Mildred Pierce fame).
Later she married the piano player on Peter Gunn.
She can also be seen briefly as one of the hat models in Easter Parade
as Fred Astaire shops for a hat for his dance partner, Ann Miller.
She was great in one of my favorite Universal monster flicks, The Monolith Monsters!
RIP Lola.
She was also in the classic two part episode of The Incredible Hulk: The First, with her being the love interest of the Dell Frye (Harry Townes) character (the bad Hulk).
That’s it: I’m not playing you at Trivial Pursuit in the Entertainment category! :-)
Shucks......now I’m bummed out.
Steve Allen introduces live video of Henry Mancini playing the Peter Gunn theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechpnavTyA
Cool.
It was a psychological thriller I enjoyed very much. I did not know, however, that at the time Jane was getting her politics radicalized (ah, the French) and that she was developing a taste for threesomes under the tutelage of her soon to be husband Roger Vadim (ah, the French).
Dark Shadows ping.
Welp, though I have to work in the morning, I have a movie to watch.
Wikipedia has a bio and picture of her. Beautiful gal. She has real nice.....er,... ‘’eyes’’ too!
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