Alice Ghostley, the Emmy-nominated and Tony Award-winning actress has died at age 81 after a long struggle with colon cancer. In her later years Ghostley became debilitated after several strokes.
The funny actress started on Broadway then moved on to film and finally television in its early days.
While her film career spanned several decades with roles on such box office blockbusters as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Grease,” she will forever be remembered as the hilariously funny and absent-minded Esmeralda on the 1960’s hit TV show “Bewitched,” starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York.
Twenty years after “Bewitched” Ghostley went on to star as Bernice Clifton on “Designing Women” for six years where she earned her Emmy nomination.
Her last public performance as an actress occurred in 2004 on the PBS program Great Performances where she starred as Stepsister Joy in the televised play of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.”
Ghostley appeared in four episodes of the NBC SF soap opera “Passions” as Matilda Matthews.
wow so sad. i really liked her, she was like how my grandma was kinda in those shows. cancer has got to be stopped. we need stop spending money on junk and work on getting rid of this instead.
thanks mrs ghostley for your work on those shows. going miss you.
i’ll make sure to say hi when i get there.
darcy