1. Audrey Mary Totter was an American radio, film, and television actress and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s.
15 Facts About Audrey Totter
1. 2.
Audrey Totter's parents were John Totter, who was born in Slovenia with birth name Janez, and Ida Mae Totter.
3.
Audrey Totter's father was of Slovenian American descent and her mother was Swedish American.
4.
Audrey Totter had two brothers, Folger and George, and a sister, Collette.
5.
Audrey Totter began her acting career in radio in the late 1930s in Chicago, only 40 miles northeast of Joliet.
6.
Audrey Totter played in soap operas, including Painted Dreams, Ma Perkins, and Bright Horizon.
7.
Audrey Totter created the role of Millie Bronson in the radio show Meet Millie, a situation comedy about a wisecracking Manhattan secretary from Brooklyn.
8.
Audrey Totter dropped out when her film studio refused to allow her to appear as the character on television.
9.
Audrey Totter made her film debut in Main Street After Dark and established herself as a popular female lead in the 1940s.
10.
Audrey Totter reportedly was dissatisfied with her MGM career and agreed to appear in Any Number Can Play only after Clark Gable intervened.
11.
Later in 1958, Audrey Totter played boarding house owner Beth Purcell in another NBC Western series, Cimarron City.
12.
Audrey Totter had a continuing role from 1972 to 1976, playing Nurse Wilcox, the efficient head nurse, in the CBS television series Medical Center, with James Daly and Chad Everett.
13.
Audrey Totter's last acting role was as a nun, Sister Paul, in a 1987 episode of CBS's Murder, She Wrote, with Angela Lansbury.
14.
Audrey Totter was married to Dr Leo Fred, assistant dean of the UCLA School of Medicine, from 1953 until his death in 1995.
15.
Audrey Totter died on December 12,2013, of a stroke, aged 95.