Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was an actress. Image File history File links Alexis Smith on the cover of Time magazine, May 3, 1971. ... Image File history File links Alexis Smith on the cover of Time magazine, May 3, 1971. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... See also: 1920 in film 1921 1922 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... See also: 1992 in film, other events of 1993, 1994 in film, list of years in film. Events March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, after Mary Pickford she was the second Canadian born with the name "Gladys Smith" to make their way to stardom in New York City and Hollywood. She would say later in life that she preferred New York, while her husband favored California. Penticton (49° 29′ 28″ N 119° 35′ 19″ W) is a city in south central British Columbia between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake. ... Mary Pickford Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists, known as Americas Sweetheart and the girl with the curl. ...

As stage actress "Alexis Smith," she was signed to a contract by Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood after being seen in a play. Her earliest film roles were uncredited bit parts and it took several years for her career to gain momentum, but her appearance in The Constant Nymph was well received and led to bigger parts. During the forties she appeared opposite some of the most popular male stars of the day such as Errol Flynn in San Antonio (1945), Humphrey Bogart in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947), and Cary Grant in the hyperfictionalized and ultrasanitized version of Cole and Linda Porter's life together in Night and Day (1946). Warner Bros. ... The Constant Nymph is a novel by Margaret Kennedy which tells the story of a teenaged girl who falls in love with a family friend who eventually marries her cousin. ... Errol Flynn Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, one of his most famous roles Errol Leslie Thompson Flynn (June 20, 1909–October 14, 1959), was a film actor born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles. ... Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an iconic American actor who retains legendary status decades after his death. ... Cary Grant Cary Grant (Horfield, Bristol, England, January 18, 1904 – Davenport, Iowa, USA, November 29, 1986) was an English-born actor in mostly American films. ... Night and Day is a song by Frank Sinatra. ...

Some of her other films include Rhapsody In Blue (1945), Of Human Bondage (1946), and The Young Philadelphians (1959). This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by William Somerset Maugham. ... The Young Philadelphians is a 1959 film with Robert Vaughn. ...

She made the cover of the May 3, 1971, issue of Time magazine with the announcement that she would be starring in the Hal Prince Broadway production of Follies. In 1972 she won a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" for her performance. She next appeared in the musical Platinum in which she earned good reviews, but the show quickly closed. Almost twenty years later she would be nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest appearance in the television sitcom Cheers in 1990. (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... Hal Prince (born January 30, 1928), full name Harold Smith Prince, is a theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical (and less notably, dramatic) productions of the past half-century. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... An Emmy Award. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Cheers is the name of a long-running sitcom made by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely-watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication. ...

Alexis Smith was married to the actor Craig Stevens from 1944 for 49 years until her death in Los Angeles, California from brain cancer on the day after her 72nd birthday. They had no children and he was her only survivor. Craig Stevens ( July 8, 1918 – May 10, 2000) was an American motion picture and television actor. ... ‹The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... A brain tumor is any mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either found in the brain (neurons, glial cells, epithelial cells, myelin producing cells, etc. ...

Her final film, The Age of Innocence (1993) was released shortly after her death. The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Rumors of her sexuality began when lesbian author Rita Mae Brown dedicated her book about the life of a Florida lesbian, Rubyfruit Jungle, to Smith. And after her death, author Boze Hadleigh declared her a bisexual in his book on Hollywood lesbians. Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is a prolific American writer and social activist, notable for novels, poetry, and screenwriting. ... Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel (1973) by Rita Mae Brown, remarkable for its explicit lesbianism. ... Historian of gay and lesbian Hollywood. ...

Broadway plays

• Platinum (1978)
• Summer Brave (1975)
• The Women (1973)
• Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973)
• Follies (1971)

DVD Cover for the 1939 film, showing (left to right) Crawford, Shearer and Russell The Women is a play by Clare Boothe Luce which opened on Broadway in 1936 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with an all-female cast that included Arlene Francis, Marjorie Main, and Doris Day. ... Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. ...

Filmography

• Lady with Red Hair (1940)
• She Couldn't Say No (1940)
• The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
• Flight from Destiny (1941)
• Here Comes Happiness (1941)
• Affectionately Yours (1941)
• Singapore Woman (1941)
• Three Sons o' Guns (1941)
• Dive Bomber (1941)
• The Smiling Ghost (1941)
• Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
• Steel Against the Sky (1941)
• Gentleman Jim (1942)
• The Constant Nymph (1943)
• Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
• The Doughgirls (1944)
• Hollywood Canteen (1944)
• The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
• Conflict (1945)
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
• San Antonio (1945)
• One More Tomorrow (1946)
• Night and Day (1946)
• Of Human Bondage (1946)
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
• Stallion Road (1947)
• So You Want to Be in Pictures (1947) (short subject)
• The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)
• Always Together (1948) (Cameo)
• The Woman in White (1948)
• Whiplash (1948)
• South of St. Louis (1949)
• One Last Fling (1949)
• Any Number Can Play (1949)
• Montana (1950)
• Wyoming Mail (1950)
• Undercover Girl (1950)
• Here Comes the Groom (1951)
• Cave of Outlaws (1951)
• The Turning Point (1952)
• Split Second (1953)
• The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
• The Eternal Sea (1955)
• Beau James (1957)
• This Happy Feeling (1958)
• The Young Philadelphians (1959)
• It Intrigues Other Worlds (1974)
• Busby Berkeley (1974) (documentary)
• Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
• Casey's Shadow (1978)
• The Trout (1982)
• Tough Guys (1986)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)