Alice Pearce

Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 by Sandra Gould. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd. Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the show began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season. Later in life she took a role in The Gambler (1997). Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role. She stopped making films altogether after Hostages in 1943, although she did appear in a single episode of the World War II television series Combat, and even took a dual role in an episode of The Love Boat. 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. Refusing to be stereotyped, or to knuckle under to the studio system, she married playwright Clifford Odets in 1937, but divorced him three years later after a stormy relationship.

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. Two years later, she had won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her portrayal of actress Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and as a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth in 1937. In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. Rainer appeared in several German language films before going to Hollywood in 1935. 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. She became an American citizen in the 1940s, but has lived in the United Kingdom for many years now. Her comedic performance was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her own television variety show. Luise Rainer (born January 12, 1910 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a 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.