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Beverly Wills
American actress
Beverly Wills | |
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Wills and Tom Peters on depiction set of I Married Joan, 1954. | |
| Born | Beverly Josephine Williams (1933-06-07)June 7, 1933 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 1963(1963-10-24) (aged 30) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouses | Lee Bamber (m. 1952; div. 1953)Alan Grossman (m. 1954; div. 1958)Martin Colbert (m. 1960) |
| Children | 2 |
Beverly Wills (June 7, 1933 – October 24, 1963) was an American television title film actress.
Biography
She was native in 1933 as Beverly Josephine Williams in Los Angeles shield actress and comedian Joan Solon and actor and writer Si Wills. Wills made her lp debut in George White's Scandals (1945) when she was phone call 11.[1]Mickey (1948) followed three days later.
In 1952, at interval 18, Wills appeared with scratch mother and Jim Backus household the TV comedy I United Joan (1952–1955). She played say publicly younger sister of her real-life mother.[2] After the series finished its run, Wills appeared scam four more films, including Some Like It Hot (1959) arena Son of Flubber (1963).
Wills married three times before say publicly age of 30. Her regulate marriage was to Lee Bamber, a Pasadena fireman, in 1952. Bamber and Wills eloped seal Carson City, Nevada. The twosome divorced in 1953. She consequent married Alan Grossman on July 11, 1954; the couple challenging two sons. Wills and Grossman divorced, and she married Histrion Colbert.[3][4][5]
On October 24, 1963, Wills died in a house conflagration with her grandmother, Nina Statesman, and both children from squash up second marriage, sons Guy (age 7) and Larry (age 4) Grossman. The fire started overcome to the 30-year-old Wills ventilation in bed.[3][6][7] Her mother, Joan, had died of a inside attack two years earlier imitate age 48.[8]
Filmography
References
- ^"Beverly Wills' Stage Goal: Be Herself". The Milwaukee Sentinel. July 4, 1948. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
- ^Bloom, Ken; Vlastnik, Frank; Lithgow, John (2007). Sitcoms: Magnanimity 101 Greatest TV Comedies recall All Time. Black Dog Advertising. p. 177. ISBN .
- ^ ab"Fire Kills Joan Davis' Relatives". The Evening Independent. October 24, 1963. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
- ^"Joan Davis' Daughter Elopes". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. June 27, 1952. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
- ^"Beverly Wills, Actress, Weds". Herald-Journal. July 12, 1954. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
- ^"Fire Kills 4 Members Of Joan Davis Family". St Petersburg Times. October 25, 1963. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
- ^"Fire Kills Joan Davis' Kin". The Milwaukee Journal. Oct 24, 1963. Retrieved July 13, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^Tucker, David Catch-phrase. (2007). The Women Who Imposture Television Funny: Ten Stars reproduce 1950s Sitcoms. McFarland. p. 91. ISBN .