Dorothy Loudon was an American actress and singer.
22 Facts About Dorothy Loudon
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Dorothy Loudon won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie.
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Dorothy Loudon was raised in Claremont, New Hampshire, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Dorothy Loudon attended Syracuse University on a drama scholarship but did not graduate, and moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Dorothy Loudon began singing in night clubs, one such being New York's Blue Angel, mingling song with ad-libbed comedy patter, and was featured on television on The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Dorothy Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols.
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Dorothy Loudon followed this with a revival of Three Men on a Horse directed by George Abbott; Lolita, My Love, which closed out-of-town during its pre-Broadway tryout; and a revival of the Clare Boothe Luce comedy The Women.
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Dorothy Loudon never puts a sneer, a leer, or even a scream in the wrong place, and her singing has just the right brassy bounce to it.
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Dorothy Loudon was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
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Dorothy Loudon performed the number "Fifty Percent" from the musical during that year's Tony Awards ceremony.
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In 1980, Dorothy Loudon succeeded Angela Lansbury as Mrs Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
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Dorothy Loudon gives a comic characterization in the most classical tradition.
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Dorothy Loudon appeared in the 1983 Jerry Herman revue Jerry's Girls and later the same year she played the role of the miserable middle-aged actress Dotty Otley on Broadway in Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off.
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Dorothy Loudon was cast as Carlotta Vance in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Dinner at Eight but was replaced by Marian Seldes in November 2002 when Loudon left the play because of illness.
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Dorothy Loudon was chosen as the replacement for Carol Burnett when Burnett left The Garry Moore Show in 1962.
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Dorothy Loudon was a frequent guest star on many New York based comedy and game shows.
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In 1979, Loudon starred in the television series Dorothy, in which she portrayed a former showgirl teaching music and drama at a boarding school for girls.
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Dorothy Loudon appeared in only two films, playing an agent in the film Garbo Talks and as Southern eccentric Serena Dawes in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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Dorothy Loudon appeared in the book version of the latter.
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Dorothy Loudon died in Manhattan, age 78, from cancer on November 15,2003.
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Dorothy Loudon was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County, New York.
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Dorothy Loudon left no immediate survivors except for two step-children from her marriage to Paris.