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ť This article is about the American actress. For the British actress, see Elizabeth Allan.

Elizabeth Allen (January 25, 1929 – September 19, 2006) was an American actress.
   Born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey, she began her career as a Ford Agency high-fashion model before landing the television role of the “Away We Go!” girl on The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s. Thereafter, she honed her stage skills by joining and performing with the Helen Hayes Repertory Group before expanding into the big and small screens. Elizabeth made numerous television appearances in guest starring roles on such programs as Kojak, Columbo, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She was also a regular cast member on TV's Bracken's World, The Paul Lynde Show, CPO Sharkey, Another World and its spin-off, Texas. Her television, film and stage career spanned three decades.
   The coolly attractive actress is perhaps best known on TV for her role as the creepy saleslady in the first-season episode of Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone, entitled The After Hours, where actress Anne Francis (playing 'Miss Marsha White') finally realizes that she's a mannequin and that her month of freedom and living among the humans is over. Allen's saleslady character (seen by no one but Marsha) is the mannequin whose turn in the outside world is up next and has already been delayed by one full day, thus explaining her slightly peeved attitude.
   In 1963, Elizabeth starred with John Wayne, Dorothy Lamour and Lee Marvin in the John Ford film Donovan's Reef. She also starred in Diamond Head with Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux. Both movies were filmed on location in Hawaii. Allen also appeared with James Stewart in Cheyenne Autumn and won a Laurel Award in 1963 as the year's most promising film actress.
   She was twice nominated for Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in The Gay Life and Do I Hear a Waltz?. She can still be heard today, singing beautifully throughout the original cast album of Waltz, available on CD. Her other notable stage productions on the Great White Way and beyond included Romanoff and Juliet, Lend an Ear, Sherry!, California Suite, The Pajama Game, The Tender Trap, Show Boat, South Pacific, and culminating in the 1980's Broadway musical 42nd Street, as fading star Dorothy Brock.
   Allen quietly retired from show business in 1996, after touring numerous cities throughout the world for over a decade with her 42nd Street role from Broadway. This was her last, significant acting job after appearing in the 1980's TV series Texas for two seasons. Reruns of Texas featuring Allen began with the show's first episode in August 1980.
   She was married briefly to Baron Karl von Vietinghoff-Scheel, but they divorced and she never remarried. She died from kidney disease, aged 77, in Fishkill, New York. She was predeceased by her only sibling, brother Joseph L. Gillease, and survived by her sister-in-law, Marion Gillease, her nephew and Godson, Patrick J. Gillease, her niece, Erin Gillease Phelan, and two grand-nieces, Alicia Phelan and Alexandria Phelan.

Broadway credits

1957 Romanoff and Juliet as Juliet
1962 The Gay Life as Magda
1965 Do I Hear a Waltz? as Leona Samish
1967 Sherry! as Maggie Cutler
1983 42nd Street as Dorothy Brock (replacing Tammy Grimes)

Filmography

1955 Born for Trouble

1960 From the Terrace as Sage Remmington

1963 Donovan's Reef as Ameilia Sarah Dedham

1963 Diamond Head as Laura Beckett

1964 Cheyenne Autumn as Guinevere Plantagenet

1971 Star Spangled Girl as Mrs. MacKaninee, the landlady

1972 The Crazy Treatment as Evelyn Randall

1979 No Other LoveFurther Information

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