Jane Asher

Now well known as the author of recipe books, Jane Asher runs a company making novelty cakes for special occasions, and still acts on television and in the theatre. Blake died on August 16, 1989 in Sacramento, California, of AIDS-related throat cancer. They have three children. Miss Kitty was owner/operator of the Long Branch Saloon from which she dispensed wisdom, whiskey, and an ongoing-nongoing mystery relationship with Dodge City Marshall Matt Dillon (played by James Arness). In 1971 she met the illustrator Gerald Scarfe, and they married ten years later in 1981. Amanda Blake (born February 20, 1929 in Buffalo, New York), was a former telephone operator and best known for her 19-year role as Kitty Russell on the long-running series, Gunsmoke. Thereafter, she was more commonly seen on television; The Stone Tape (1972); Brideshead Revisited (1981); Crossroads (2001).

Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death in 1964, and Alfie, opposite Michael Caine in 1966. Her brother Peter was part of the duo Peter & Gordon, for whom McCartney penned the number one hit A World Without Love. She inspired many of McCartney's best songs, such as Here, There and Everywhere and For No One. In 1963, Asher interviewed The Beatles, and then commenced a five year relationship with Paul McCartney.

After some roles as a child actress, including an appearance in the 1955 science-fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment, she worked as an interviewer on the BBC's Juke Box Jury. April 5, 1946) is a British film and television actress. Jane Asher (b.