Ann B. Davis

Never married, Davis currently lives in a Christian commune in San Antonio, Texas, but has never completely retired from acting and recently appeared in a commercial with other actors famous for playing servants. She died from lymphedema in Los Angeles, California. She played a cameo role as a truck driver in The Brady Bunch Movie in 1995. Although regarded as a capable and popular film actress, it was for her contributions to television that Dru was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She also played the role of housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch television series and the various Brady Bunch sequel series and TV movies that followed. Her film career began to fade by the end of the 1950s but she continued working frequently in television. Her first success was as Shultzy in The Bob Cummings Show, and she won two Emmy Awards out of four nominations for this role. She later lamented that she had been typecast in western films, commenting that once an actress became typecast, that was the end, and adding that she had never liked horses.

Davis (born May 5, 1926 in Schenectady, New York) is a television actress. She also gave a well received performance in the drama film All the King's Men (1949). Ann Bradford Davis, known as Ann B. Over the next decade she appeared frequently in films, most often cast in westerns such as the John Wayne films Red River (1948) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abie's Irish Rose in 1946. During this time Dru met and married the popular singer Dick Haymes and when they moved to Hollywood she found work in theater.