Allyn Ann McLerie
- Birthday
- Dec 1, 1926
Bio: Gamine-like Canadian singer-dancer Allyn Ann McLerie built her reputation on Broadway, where she made her debut at 16 in the chorus of One Touch of Venus. She rose to stardom playing soubrette roles in such hits as Leonard Bernstein's On the Town and Irving Berlin's Miss Liberty Four years after her tentative movie debut in the 1948 MGM feature Words and Music Ms.… More Bio: Gamine-like Canadian singer-dancer Allyn Ann McLerie built her reputation on Broadway, where she made her debut at 16 in the chorus of One Touch of Venus. She rose to stardom playing soubrette roles in such hits as Leonard Bernstein's On the Town and Irving Berlin's Miss Liberty Four years after her tentative movie debut in the 1948 MGM feature Words and Music Ms. McLerie won a Warner Bros. contract when she repeated her Broadway role of Amy Spettigue in the film version of Frank Loesser's Where's Charley? Rapidly outgrowing the wearisome ingenues assigned her by the studio, Allyn temporarily retired in 1954. Resuming her acting, singing and dancing lessons in the mid-1960s, Allyn slowly reemerged as a versatile character actress, popping up in such small but powerful roles as Red Buttons' psychotic dance partner in They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) and the "wrong" White House source in All the President's Men (1976). On TV, she played spinsterish secretary Janet Reubner on The Tony Randall Show (1976-78), while on the 1987 critic's darling Days and Nights of Molly Dodd she portrayed Molly's divorced mother. Allyn Ann McLerie has been married twice, to actor/playwright/lyricist Adolph Green and to Broadway leading man George Gaynes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)
- Actor
- 77%
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Stranger in my Bed (1986)
- Shirley Hunter
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story (1983)
- Actor
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Two Kinds of Love (1983)
- Actor
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Rascals and Robbers (1982)
- Aunt Polly
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Allyn Ann McLerie Videos
The Way We Were
2 minutes 25 seconds
All The President's Men
1 minutes 31 seconds
Jeremiah Johnson
1 minutes 34 seconds
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3 minutes 39 seconds
Words And Music
2 minutes 53 seconds
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