Ona Munson

She was typecast in similar roles, and in 1955, plagued by ill health, she committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates in her apartment in New York. Of these, she is the only one who has not played Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard. Ona Munson’s career was stalemated by the acclaim of GWTW. She is frequently named one of the four greatest living musical divas alongside Betty Buckley, Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige. Tallulah Bankhead refused the role as too small. However, she was nominated several times: 1975 for Mack and Mabel, 1984 for Sunday in the Park with George, 1993 for The Goodbye Girl, and 2003 for Gypsy, as well as 1972 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for On the Town. Early on, Selznick had announced Mae West was to play Belle, but this was of course a publicity stunt. She has won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice: 1985 for Song and Dance and 1999 for Annie Get Your Gun.

The needed look for Belle could be created in the wardrobe and makeup departments. In theatre, she has come to be associated with Stephen Sondheim's music, appearing in his Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and, in 2003, returning to Gypsy as "Mama Rose". She spoke deep and throaty in her test, and her voice conveyed sexiness and worldliness. In films she is remembered mainly for the movies she made with Steve Martin. But her skills as an actress electrified her screen test: it was all in the voice. She first attracted critical notice in the Off-Broadway spoof of 1930s musicals, Dames at Sea. She was the antithesis of the voluptuous Belle: tall, freckled, and of slight build. In her teen years she appeared in The Most Happy Fella (1959), was an understudy for "Dainty June" in the touring company of Gypsy (1961), and was in The Penny Friend (1966) and The Girl In The Freudian Slip (1967).

She introduced the song "You're the Cream In My Coffee," to New York audiences. She took tap lessons, and at the age of nine got her Equity Card (under the name of Bernadette Peters, to avoid ethnic stereotyping). 1955) Ona Munson was an improbable choice to play the whiskey-voiced prostitute with a heart of gold, Belle Watling, in "Gone With the Wind." Born Ona Wolcott in Portland, Oregon in 1903, she first came to fame on Broadway as the singing and dancing ingenue in the original production of "No, No, Nanette." She had a very successful stage and radio career in the 1930’s in New York. She later appeared on Name That Tune and The Horn And Hardart Children's Hour. 1903, d. Her mother started her off in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three and a half years. ONA MUNSON (American actress, b. Her outstanding characteristics are her flawless complexion, bee-stung lips, kewpie-doll voice, and gift for light comedy.

Bernadette Peters is the stage name of Bernadette Lazarra (born February 28, 1948 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York), an actress and singer. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella - 1997. Into the Woods - 1991. Sunday in the Park with George - 1986.

Slaves of New York - 1989. Annie - 1982. Heartbeeps - 1981. Pennies from Heaven - 1981 (Golden Globe Award, Best Actress).

The Jerk - 1979. Silent Movie - 1976. Gypsy - 2003. Annie Get Your Gun - 1999 (Tony Award, Best Leading Actress in a Musical).

The Goodbye Girl - 1993. Into the Woods - 1987. Song and Dance - 1985 (Tony Award, Best Leading Actress in a Musical). Sunday in the Park with George - 1984.

Mack & Mabel - 1974. On the Town - 1971. La Strada - 1969. George M! - 1968.

Johnny No-Trump - 1967. The Girl in the Freudian Slip -1967. Dames at Sea - 1967.