1. Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Rowles was an American actress.
10 Facts About Polly Rowles
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Polly Rowles's father was a steel executive, and her grandfather was an actor.
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Polly Rowles gained additional acting experience with the Pittsburgh Little Theatre, where Ben Iden Payne was the director.
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Polly Rowles was signed to make films for Universal based on the recommendation of Carnegie Tech's school of drama.
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Polly Rowles worked as a freelance actress, including making a film with Gene Autry, but then decided that she could put her dramatic training to better use on stage, so she headed east to Broadway.
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Polly Rowles appeared as Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell in the title role.
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Polly Rowles acted on stage in the Strand Theatre in London in Dark Eyes.
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Polly Rowles had a program that was "an early version of talk radio" on KDKA in Pittsburgh.
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Polly Rowles was married to Frank Snyder, and she had a daughter.
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On October 7,2001, Polly Rowles died at a nursing home in Concord, New Hampshire, aged 87.