Years active 1948–2011 Name Phyllis Love | Role Theater Actress | |
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Occupation Stage, television actress Movies Friendly Persuasion, Master Builder Spouse Alan Gooding (m. 1983–2011), James Vincent McGee (m. 1948–1978) Similar People Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Dorothy McGuire, Peter Mark Richman, Marjorie Main | ||
Osanna Phyllis Love Gooding, Part One
Phyllis Love (December 21, 1925 – October 30, 2011) was an American theater and television actress.
Contents
- Osanna Phyllis Love Gooding Part One
- Osanna Phyllis Love Gooding Part Eight
- Early years
- Career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Osanna Phyllis Love Gooding, Part Eight
Early years
Love was born Phyllis Ann Love in Des Moines, Iowa. Her parents were Jack Love, who owned a food market, and Lois Love, who owned a cafe prior to marriage. Her schooling came at Perkins Elementary School, Callanan Junior High School, and Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. In 1948, she graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Career
Afer moving to New York, Love joined the recently formed Actors Studio. Her debut on television came in the studio's Actors Studio series; her Broadway and big screen bows, the year after that, as, respectively, Julie Harris's understudy in the stage adaptation of Member of the Wedding, and, an uncredited performer in the film So Young So Bad.
Throughout the 1950s she acted in Broadway productions and the occasional film. Her Broadway credits include A Distant Bell (1959), Flowering Cherry (1959), The Egghead (1957), The Rose Tattoo (1950), and The Country Girl (1950). She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1951 for her role in The Rose Tattoo. That role also brought her a Donaldson Award for Best Supporting Performance (Actress)for 1950-1951.
She played Mattie Birdwell in the film Friendly Persuasion (1956), and Dick Clark's pregnant wife in The Young Doctors (1961). On television, she appeared principally in guest roles from 1950 until her retirement in the early 1970s. Among her roles were two guest appearances on Perry Mason, both times as the defendant, including the part of Minerva Doubleday in the 1964 episode "The Case of the Wooden Nickels". In 1961 she played Dot the waitress in season 4 episode 17 and 18 of Have Gun Will Travel, and in 1962 she played Ellen Carter in "The Case of the Bogus Books". The same year she played Mrs. Lucas in the 3rd-season episode "Four O'Clock" in The Twilight Zone and in 1964 she played Minerva Doubleday in "The Case of the Wooden Nickels."
For 15 years, Love was on the faculty at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, teaching drama and English.
Personal life
Love and James Vincent McGee were married from 1948 to 1978, when they divorced. On January 22, 1983, she married Alan Paul Gooding. They remained married until her death.
Death
On October 30, 2011, Love died at her home in Menifee, California, at age 85.