August 2001 in New York City) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. "It's the kind of character who's been around," said the actress, "and God knows I have. Kathleen Freeman (alternativ: Katherine Freeman) ( 17. It was a role which the show's creators, the composer David Yazbek and the writer Terrence McNally, added late in the writing process, and does not exist in the film. Last autumn she returned to Broadway in The Full Monty, playing Jeanette Burchmeister, a salty, tough-talking pianist. Books by Kathleen Freeman The Affairs of Dobie Gillis The Fly Blues Brothers 2000 The Nutty Professor Reckless Kelly Veterinary Cytology: Dog, Cat, Horse. She was in 11 comedies directed by Lewis in the 1950s and '60s. She was known for playing the role of maids and secretaries in many comedies, especially directed by Jerry Lewis. She also toured with several shows, having notable success as Miss Hannigan, the soused orphanage head in Annie, and touring with Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year (as a German maid). Kathleen Freeman (Febru August 23, 2001) was an American actress. 1 She was in 11 comedies directed by Lewis in the 1950s and '60s. The theatre critic Walter Kerr, praising the actress's flair for comedy, wrote, "Even in mid-flight, she has the patience to sit on a line, to isolate it, and nail it to the floor." Kathleen Freeman (Febru August 23, 2001) was an American actress. Though active in the theatre in Los Angeles, Freeman did not make her Broadway début until 1978, when she appeared with Louis Jourdan in the Feydeau farce 13 Rue de l'Amour as Madame Spritzer, a dissolute countess. In Hogan's Heroes, she played Frau Linkmeier, the great love of Colonel Klink, and she also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show and many others. She and Phil Silvers appeared in two outstanding episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies as con-artists who sell the Clampett family the Washington Monument, the Pentagon and the Lincoln Memorial when they are visiting Washington. On television she had her first regular sitcom role as the maid in Topper (1953/4). Such was her popularity with audiences that every night her first appearance in the show would be greeted with a huge ovation.īut I have always felt that I was put here to do this: I am somebody who is around to help the world laugh. Recently she had a Broadway triumph in the musical The Full Monty, for which she received a Tony nomination and in which she was still appearing at the time of her death. Chubby and jowly, with a perpetually furrowed brow, she was also memorable as the vicious nun who torments John Belushi in The Blues Brothers, and in several movies she made with Jerry Lewis. Kathleen Freeman was a much-loved character actress whom many will remember in the classic musical Singin' in the Rain as Phoebe Dinsmore, the diction coach trying desperately to teach silent screen star Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) to speak in "round tones, round tones" to cope with the advent of talkies. En una carrera de más de cincuenta años, interpretó a sirvientas, secretarias, maestras, enfermeras y vecinas, casi invariablemente con un efecto cómico. Kathleen Freeman, actress: born Chicago 17 February 1919 died New York 23 August 2001. Kathleen Freeman fue una actriz de cine, teatro y televisión estadounidense.
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