Allyn Ann McLerie

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1926-12-01 (92 years old)

Deathday

2018-05-21

Place of Birth

Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada

Allyn Ann McLerie

Biography

Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 - May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus.  She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award).  Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty,  the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie al...

Acting

1973

The Way We Were

as Rhea Edwards

1976

Born Innocent

as Emma Lasko

1972

Jeremiah Johnson

as Crazy Woman

1953

Calamity Jane

as Katie Brown

1972

1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

as Yvonne (as Allyn McLerie)

1970

Monte Walsh

as Mary Eagle

1973

Cinderella Liberty

as Miss Watkins

1952

Where's Charley?

as Amy Spettigue (as Allyn McLerie)

1953

1974

France, Incorporated

as The American

1976

The Entertainer

as Mrs. Pasko

1972

The Shadow of a Gunman

as Mrs. Grigson

1969

The Reivers

as Alison

1976

All the President's Men

as Carolyn Abbott

1980

1978

1980

To Find My Son

as Mrs. Braggs

1979

A Shining Season

as Polly Baker

1982

Fantasies

as Shirley

1948

Words and Music

as Singer in Garrick Gaeities

1955

Battle Cry

as Ruby - Waitress in Diner

1962

40 Pounds of Trouble

as Blanchard's Secretary

1972

The Cowboys

as Ellen Price

1987

Stranger in My Bed

as Shirley Hunter

1979

And Baby Makes Six

as Dora Finley

1975

Death Scream

as Alice Whitmore

1978

Sister Terri

as Mother Superior Helen

1974

1983

Two Kinds of Love

as Aunt Emily

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