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Allyn Ann McLerie (born December 1, 1926) is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden-Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. ==Life and career== McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator.〔(Profile ), filmreference.com; accessed May 20, 2015.〕 She moved with her family to the United States at the age of 1. She studied dancing at a studio in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's ''One Touch of Venus''.〔〔〔(Profile ), bklyn.newspapers.com; accessed May 20, 2015.〕 She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in ''On the Town'', then played Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of ''Where's Charley?'' (Theatre World Award).〔 A life member of The Actors Studio, McLerie's other Broadway credits include ''Miss Liberty'',〔 the drama ''Time Limit'', ''Redhead'' (understudying Gwen Verdon), and ''West Side Story''. McLerie danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour. Perhaps some of McLerie's better-known film appearances are as Amy in ''Where's Charley?'' (1952),〔 Katie Brown in ''Calamity Jane'' (1953), Shirley in ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in ''Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972). Other film work includes ''Words and Music'' (1948), ''The Desert Song'' (1952), ''Phantom of the Rue Morgue'' (1954), ''The Reivers'' (1969), ''Monte Walsh'' (1970), ''The Cowboys'' (1972), ''The Magnificent Seven Ride'' (1972), ''The Way We Were'' (1973), ''Cinderella Liberty'' (1973), ''All the President's Men'' (1976), and the TV movie ''Born Innocent'' (1974). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as ''Bonanza'', ''The Waltons'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Barney Miller'', ''Benson'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''St. Elsewhere'', and ''Dynasty'', among many others.〔 She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on ''The Tony Randall Show'' (1976-78). McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on ''WKRP in Cincinnati'' (1978–82). She appeared in three episodes of ''Punky Brewster ''alongside her husband, George Gaynes (1984). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'' (1987-91). Her last role was on an episode of ''Brooklyn Bridge'' in 1993. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allyn Ann McLerie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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