Karen Morley

She died from pneumonia in Woodland Hills, California. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 by Sandra Gould. In December 1999, she appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in an article about blacklist survivors. Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the show began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season. She remained married to Gough until his death in 1984, and moved to the San Francisco Bay area late in life. Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role. She maintained her political activism for the rest of her life, running unsuccessfully for government in 1954, but was never able to rebuild her acting career. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner, played by George Tobias, provided a common thread through many of the series early episodes.

Her career came to an end in 1947, when she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to answer questions about her alleged Communist Party membership. As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. In 1943 she married the actor Lloyd Gough. In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. She was a frequent player in films until the end of the decade, and was married to director Charles Vidor from 1932 until 1943. More movie roles followed, and she made appearances on Broadway, where she met her husband director Paul Davis during a production of The Bells are Ringing. Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, Morley came to prominence in Hollywood films in the early 1930s, most notably in Mata Hari (1931), Scarface (1932), Arsene Lupin (1933), and Dinner at Eight (1934). Her comedic performance was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her own television variety show.

Karen Morley (December 12, 1909 - March 8, 2003) was an American film actress. Gene Kelly was so impressed by her, that she became the only cast member to be included in the film version in 1949. She began working in nightclubs as a comedienne and was cast in the Broadway production of On The Town. Born Alicia Pearce in New York City, Pearce was educated in Europe and returned to the US as an adult. Alice Pearce (October 16, 1913 - March 3, 1966) was an American actress.