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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The photographer was Bob Cummings.
I wish I had one!
I really wish I had a Pierce Arrow.
Love That Bob
Hold it! I think you’re going to like this picture!
Cord.
“Heyyyyyyyyyyyy, Cisco!”
“Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Pancho!”
“Come on Cisco, let’s WENT!”
With Ann B Davis But i watched for the models. i was probably 9 what was i thinking.
Also with Rosemary De Camp, who was kinda purdy.
Cords were ahead of their time.
I still remember my mouseketeer number - 242001. Only number besides SS that I ever remember.
LOL
Mouseketeer + Annette Funicello = young boy’s fantasy
This young boys fantasies. Russell Monroe, Mansfield, and Dagmar.
Who was Russell Monroe? Nasty little boy.
my girls Jane and Marilyn
It was custom-built, but made to look like a Cord.
Speaking of Russell reminds me of Russell Arms, a regular on Your Hit Parade, where also appeared one of my fantasies, Judy Collins.
Check that. It was Dorothy Collins.
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.
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.
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