1. Alice Pearce was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town.
17 Facts About Alice Pearce
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Alice Pearce won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series posthumously after the second season of the series.
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Alice Pearce's father was a foreign banking specialist, and her family moved to Europe when she was 18 months old.
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Alice Pearce returned to the United States as a teenager and boarded at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
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Alice Pearce graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1940 with a degree in drama.
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Alice Pearce began working in nightclubs as a comedienne and was cast in the original Broadway production of On the Town.
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Alice Pearce was given her own television variety show, The Alice Pearce Show.
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In 1964, Alice Pearce was originally approached to play the part of Grandmama in the ABC television comedy series The Addams Family.
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Alice Pearce turned down the part, which went to veteran actress Blossom Rock.
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Later that year, Alice Pearce joined the cast of Bewitched as the nagging and nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz.
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Alice Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to the witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street.
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Alice Pearce played the role until her death in 1966 and was replaced by Sandra Gould.
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Alice Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role.
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Alice Pearce kept her illness a secret, although her rapid weight loss was quite evident during the second season of the sitcom.
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Alice Pearce filmed her last episode, "Baby's First Paragraph," on January 21,1966.
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Alice Pearce died from ovarian cancer less than two months later on March 3,1966, at age 48.
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Alice Pearce was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.