Anne Whitfield (American Actress)

Name    Anne Whitfield
Born    August 27, 1938 (age 84), Mississippi, United States Height    5.2 ft, 1.58 m Nationality    American Birth Sign    Virgo Occupation    Actress Movies    White Christmas (1954), Tick, Tick, Tick (1970), Cookie's Fortune (1999) Parents    Richard N. Whitfield, Jr. , Frances Turner Whitfield Similar    John Brascia, Mary Wickes, Vera Ellen Zodiac Sign    Scorpio Years active    1950-1999

Anne Whitfield remembers Phil Harris and Alice Faye

Facts

    •  Her first name is sometimes seen spelled Ann.

    •  In the "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show" on radio, she played the fictionalized version of Phyllis Harris.

    •  She later specialized in clean water issues and became an environmental educator for Washington State.

Early and Personal Life

Anne Whitfield was born on August 27, 1938 in Oxford, Mississippi, USA. She is the daughter of Frances Turner Whitfield and Richard N. Whitfield, Jr. Her father was director of bands at the University of Mississippi. 

Her mother was employed as a speech teacher. Later in life, she moved to California and attended Rosewood Avenue Public School. By the time she was 17, she was a student at the University of California. She had to schedule her work around her classes at that time as she was already working on various radio programs by then.

Career

Anne Whitfield was an actress, who was especially known for White Christmas (1954), numerous commercials and television shows. Her radio career started in 1945 when she was barely seven years old. Some of her well known TV appearances include 3 Perry Mason's, One Step Beyond, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke, 2 Cheyenne's, Doby Gillis, and a Bonanza.

There was a time when as a kid, Anne Whitfield played almost all child roles on nearly every dramatic and comedy series originating in Hollywood. It was on September 1945 she made her first appearance on radio. She literally had to step up on a box so that she can reach an already lowered microphone in an NBC studio. 

The first words she spoke on radio was for a radio commercial where she had to say 'I want another slice of bread'. At the age of seven, she became a member of the cast of One Man's Family. She was also heard on The Screen Guild Theater, Lux Radio Theatre, Family Theater, Cavalcade of America, His Honor, The Cisco Kid, Phone Again, Dr. Paul, the Barber, The women in my house and The Harold Peary Show.

In the 1949, Whitfield started to appear in some theatrical productions of ‘Show Boat’ and ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ both in LA, California. As far as her film career was concerned she played the role of Susan Waverly inWhite Christmas and also appeared in Juvenile Jungle (1958)

One of the most popular roles she played during 1960, was of “Trudy“ in the seventh episode of the sixth season of ‘Don Matteo’ in the TV Western Gunsmoke. Trudy was a working bar girl in the Long Branch. Anne Whitfield also played Claudia Barbour in the Television version of One Man's Family. 

Remember that in the radio version of One Man’s Family, she played the role of Penny who was the daughter of Claudia Barber. She played the two roles at the same time during the Television series' single season on the air. Apart from these there are numerous shows she played a role such as "The Case of the Ugly Duckling", "The Case of the Nautical Knot", and "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper", among others.

Family

Anne Whitfield was first married to John F. Phillips on 18 December 1976. They had one child. However, the couple parted their ways and got divorced on 22 May 2008. After her divorce, she again got married to Frederick Roy Schiller on 21 June 1958. Her second marriage lasted till 1969 after which she got divorced again.

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