Suzanne Pleshette

Her small but underplayed role in The Birds can definitely be an acting lesson on how to really underplay. In 1943, she married her third husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine; they divorced in 1949. Her Emmy and Golden Globe nominated performance in Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean is riveting, played to the hilt, and spine chilling. In 1934, she married her second husband, actor Lew Ayres (1908–1996); they separated quickly and were divorced in 1941. Pleshette has been in over two dozen made for television films and numerous dramas of the late 50's and 60's and 70's; During the 60's and 70's and she appeared to dominate the drama shows. She first married her dancing partner Jack Pepper (real name Edward Jackson Culpepper) on March 29, 1929; they divorced in 1931, having separated soon after the wedding. She also played opposite Tom Poston and Constance Ford in The Golden Fleecing. This close mother-daughter relationship has been proffered to explain at least in part Rogers's history of marital disappointment.

Miss Pleshette is also a former Broadway leading lady having replaced Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker opposite Patty Duke to rave reviews. She was a conservative Republican politically, and lived for much of her life with her mother, Lela Owens McMath Rogers (1891–1977), a Christian Scientist who was a newspaper reporter, scriptwriter, movie producer, one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Suzanne Pleshette (born January 31, 1937) is an American actress, most known as Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show. In 1940 Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her starring role in Kitty Foyle. Battling for Baby. In 1939, she played opposite David Niven in Bachelor Mother. The Birds. Her first roles were in a trio of short films made in 1929 — Night in the Dormitory, A Day of a Man of Affairs, and Campus Sweethearts.

She is most remembered as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten all-singing all-dancing Hollywood musicals, but her acting career spanned over thirty years. Virginia Katherine McMath (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995), better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress and dancer. Variants include "Astaire gave her class, and Rogers gave him sex" and "He gave her class, and she gave him sex.". "Fred gave Ginger class, and Ginger gave Fred sex." Katharine Hepburn, actress.

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels." Faith Whittlesey, former US ambassador to Switzerland. Responsibility for this quote also has been traced to a 1982 Frank and Ernest cartoon.