Phyllis Love

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-12-21 (86 years old)

Deathday

2011-10-30

Place of Birth

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Phyllis Love

Biography

Phyllis Anne Love was born in Des Moines, Iowa on December 21, 1925. She attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines along with her close friend, Cloris Leachman. After performing in various local and regional drama productions, Love enrolled in the Actors Studio in New York in 1948. Her movie debut was a bit as a juvenile delinquent in the 1950 movie So Young So Bad (1950), which starred Paul Henreid and Rita Moreno. Love's best-known film role was as "Mattie Birdwell" in William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion (1956). Love guested in numerous TV programs in the 50s, 60s, and 70s but enjoyed her greatest success on the Broadway stage. Sh...

Acting

1956

Friendly Persuasion

as Mattie Birdwell

1961

The Young Doctors

as Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander

1950

So Young, So Bad

as Delinquent Girl (uncredited)

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