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Star Of TV’s ‘Topper.’ Anne Jeffreys, Dies At 94
cbs2la ^ | September 28, 2017 7:44 PM

Posted on 09/28/2017 8:20:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Anne Jeffreys, the actress and opera singer who likely had her greatest impact on TV audiences as Marion Kerby “the ghostess with the mostess” in the 1950s TV series “Topper,” has died. She was 94.

Jeffreys, whose husband, actor Robert Sterling, died in 2006, died peacefully in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on Wednesday evening, her manager Don Gibble said Thursday.

More recently, she spent two decades playing Amanda Barrington on “General Hospital” She was featured in the role of the wealthy on more than 350 episodes of the soap opera from 1984 until 2004.

In “Topper,” she and Sterling starred as fun-loving husband and wife George and Marion Kerby who, after dying in a Swiss avalanche, return as ghosts to their mansion and comically haunt its new occupant, actor Leo G. Carroll as staid banker Cosmo Topper.

Each week they were introduced to viewers as George, “that most sporting spirit,” and Marion, “the ghostess with the mostess.”

They were among many varied roles in a long career in films, television, opera and on Broadway for Jeffreys, who continued to work well into her 70s. Her final on-screen appearance was on the HBO series “Getting On.”

Early in her career, she appeared opposite John Wayne in “Flying Tigers.” In later years, she appeared on such TV shows as “L.A. Law” and “Murder, She Wrote” and played David Hasselhoff’s mother on “Baywatch.”

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To: mairdie

The photographer was Bob Cummings.


41 posted on 09/28/2017 9:37:50 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

I wish I had one!


42 posted on 09/28/2017 9:40:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

I really wish I had a Pierce Arrow.


43 posted on 09/28/2017 9:41:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: sparklite2

Love That Bob


44 posted on 09/28/2017 9:46:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Hold it! I think you’re going to like this picture!


45 posted on 09/28/2017 9:48:00 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: hanamizu

Cord.


46 posted on 09/28/2017 9:48:02 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hxxXAC3m1eQ)
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To: mairdie

“Heyyyyyyyyyyyy, Cisco!”
“Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Pancho!”
“Come on Cisco, let’s WENT!”


47 posted on 09/28/2017 9:50:10 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

With Ann B Davis But i watched for the models. i was probably 9 what was i thinking.


48 posted on 09/28/2017 9:50:34 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Also with Rosemary De Camp, who was kinda purdy.


49 posted on 09/28/2017 9:53:48 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Cords were ahead of their time.


50 posted on 09/28/2017 9:54:37 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

I still remember my mouseketeer number - 242001. Only number besides SS that I ever remember.


51 posted on 09/28/2017 9:59:27 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

LOL
Mouseketeer + Annette Funicello = young boy’s fantasy


52 posted on 09/28/2017 10:04:03 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

This young boys fantasies. Russell Monroe, Mansfield, and Dagmar.


53 posted on 09/28/2017 10:05:23 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Who was Russell Monroe? Nasty little boy.


54 posted on 09/28/2017 10:06:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

my girls Jane and Marilyn


55 posted on 09/28/2017 10:07:01 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: hanamizu

It was custom-built, but made to look like a Cord.


56 posted on 09/28/2017 10:08:12 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hxxXAC3m1eQ)
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To: morphing libertarian

Speaking of Russell reminds me of Russell Arms, a regular on Your Hit Parade, where also appeared one of my fantasies, Judy Collins.


57 posted on 09/28/2017 10:08:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

Check that. It was Dorothy Collins.


58 posted on 09/28/2017 10:11:16 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

I remember and gazelle McKensie and Snookie lonesome. Davy Crockett was number 1 for 22 weeks. they had to really work to set up the song in a different background every week. started as a radio show.


59 posted on 09/28/2017 10:14:15 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Same problem with Canadian Sunset. That difficulty is one of the things the killed the show, and when rock and roll came along, there were only so many ways to do Hound Dog, so they stopped trying.


60 posted on 09/28/2017 10:16:46 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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