Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre’s major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where’s Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour.
McLerie’s best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where’s Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall’s assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978. McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson’s wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character’s mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993.
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Allyn Ann McLerie Biography / Wiki
| Name | Allyn Ann McLerie |
| Also Know | Allyn McLerie |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada |
| Date of Birth | 1926-12-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday | 2018-05-21 |
Allyn Ann McLerie Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Where’s Charley? | Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie) | 1952-05-20 | Musical version of the comedy by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, fir… |
| France société anonyme | L’américaine | 1974-06-04 | In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situatio… |
| A Shining Season | Polly Baker | 1979-12-26 | The true story of University of New Mexico track star John Baker who, dying of cancer, spent his remaining time coaching a losing girls” track team to… |
| Born Innocent | Emma Lasko | 1974-09-10 | A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bure… |
| Calamity Jane | Katie Brown | 1953-11-04 | Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way… |
| Return Engagement | Florence | 1978-11-17 | A live-theater production which Elizabeth Taylor stars as Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly … |
| Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn | Aunt Polly | 1982-02-27 | The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con arti… |
| Stranger in My Bed | Shirley Hunter | 1987-01-12 | A woman gets amnesia after an accident, and doesn’t remember her life, including her husband. While she tries to recall, she meets a man and begins a … |
| Phantom of the Rue Morgue | Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie) | 1954-03-27 | When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon … |
| To Find My Son | Mrs. Braggs | 1980-10-06 | A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with… |
| Someone I Touched | Jean | 1975-02-26 | A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is f… |
| Jeremiah Johnson | Crazy Woman | 1972-09-10 | A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of th… |
| The Desert Song | Azuri | 1953-05-30 | Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The R… |
| Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story | Audrey Williams | 1983-03-08 | TV movie based on the singer’s life, under his mother’s thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, an… |
| Fantasies | Shirley | 1982-01-18 | A crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera…. |
| And Baby Makes Six | Dora Finley | 1979-10-22 | A couple faces a dilemma when the 46-year-old wife unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She wants to have the baby, but her husband has plans for the future… |
| Sister Terri | Mother Superior Helen | 1978-05-27 | Failed TV pilot…. |
| The Way We Were | Rhea Edwards | 1973-10-17 | Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart…. |
| Cinderella Liberty | Miss Watkins | 1973-12-18 | A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a Seattle hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his servi… |
| The Entertainer | Mrs. Pasko | 1976-03-10 | A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom…. |
| The Oldest Living Graduate | Mrs. Hampton | 1980-04-07 | Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid’s weak-willed son Floyd (George Grizzard) wants to get into the o… |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Miss Martin | 1974-03-27 | The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother…. |
| They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? | Shirl | 1969-12-10 | In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a… |
| The Magnificent Seven Ride! | Mrs. Donavan | 1972-08-01 | Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend’s request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers … |
| The Reivers | Alison | 1969-12-25 | In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a t… |
| Death Scream | Alice Whitmore | 1975-09-26 | Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman’s murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to h… |
| Monte Walsh | Mary Eagle | 1970-10-02 | Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Mo… |
| Battle Cry | Ruby – Waitress in Diner | 1955-02-02 | The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from… |
| The Cowboys | Ellen Price | 1972-01-13 | When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to ge… |
| 40 Pounds of Trouble | Blanchard’s Secretary | 1962-12-31 | Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl…. |
| Words and Music | Singer in Garrick Gaeities | 1948-12-31 | Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, … |
| All the President’s Men | Carolyn Abbott | 1976-01-18 | During the 1972 elections, two reporters’ investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from… |
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