Alice Ghostley

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Biography

While essentially a comedic actress best known to her television audience as the shy, anxiety-ridden, supernatural housekeeper Esmerelda on the ABC sitcom, Bewitched, and…more

Born

Eve, Missouri, USA

Birth Name

Alicia Margaret Ghostley

Gender

Female

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    • Alice, at the start of her entertainment career, use to do a lot of backers' auditions, where actors would do portions of shows to try and raise money for the production. It was while doing such an audition that she met composer G. Wood, who convinced her to join him in a nightclub act that they premiered at the Bon Soir club in New York City.
    • Alice played Mrs. Murdock, the auto mechanics teacher, in the film version of Grease (1978), a role which she found quite ironic since she didn't drive.
    • Alice listed her year of birth as 1926, but many sources dispute the date, including comedic actress and longtime friend, Kaye Ballard, who claims Ghostley was actually about two years older.

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    • Alice: (about being a ham) I have to be.
    • Alice: When I was five years old, my mother took me to the Legion Hut and stood me on a table. I recited poetry! I sang songs! I tapped danced! I didn't know it then, but that table was my first stage. There was applause. The second time my mother took me to the Hut, I made her give me a nickel before I stood on the table. I wanted the applause, but even at five, I knew I had earned the applause.
    • Alice: When I first started out, I had this natural ability to sing. That was another reason why I chose New York, with all the musicals that were happening at the time. But I looked so different from everyone else. I was never what you would call an ingenue. I was having difficulty finding jobs. 'Get your eyes straightened,' they would tell me, 'and maybe we can work with you.'

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