1. Eleanor Audley was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work.
13 Facts About Eleanor Audley
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Eleanor Audley played Oliver Douglas's mom, Eunice Douglas, on the CBS sitcom Green Acres, and provided two Disney animated classics with the voices of the two iconic villainesses: Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother in Cinderella, and Maleficent, the wicked fairy in Sleeping Beauty.
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Eleanor Audley had roles in live-action films, but was most active in radio programs such as My Favorite Husband as Liz Cooper's mother-in-law, Mrs Cooper, and Father Knows Best as the Anderson family's neighbor, Mrs Smith.
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Eleanor Audley Zellman was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 19,1905.
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Eleanor Audley's family had moved to West 86th Street in Manhattan, New York City, by 1917.
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Eleanor Audley made her Broadway debut at age 21 in the 1926 production of Howdy, King.
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Eleanor Audley worked extensively in the 1940s and 1950s in radio, notably playing Liz Cooper's aristocratic mother-in-law, Mrs Cooper, who typically looks down on her, on My Favorite Husband, and the Anderson family's neighbor, Mrs Smith, on Father Knows Best.
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Eleanor Audley played the stepmother in one-shot adaptations of the Cinderella story on the anothology series Hallmark Playhouse, and the weekly western series The Six Shooter, that starred James Stewart.
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Eleanor Audley's onscreen appearance was an uncredited role as a parole board member in the 1949 noir film The Story of Molly X starring June Havoc.
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Eleanor Audley was uncredited dubbing the lines of actors playing small parts in films such as I Was a Male War Bride and Broken Arrow.
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Eleanor Audley initially turned down the role of Maleficent because she was battling tuberculosis at the time.
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Eleanor Audley died from respiratory failure in 1991, six days after her 86th birthday.
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Eleanor Audley is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.