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The first time I saw Anne Jeffreys, she was invisible.
Well, sort of. She was playing Marion Kerby in Topper, a mid-1950s TV sitcom based loosely on the 1937 film, which in turn was derived from a novel by Thorne Smith. (There was a second novel, Topper Takes a Trip, which spawned a second film; a third film followed.)
Anyway, the premise is that Fun Couple George and Marion Kerby have been killed, and their shades are spending some time haunting stuffy old Cosmo Topper. The ghost shtick requires them to vanish and reappear at irregular intervals for reasons which aren’t always, um, clear.
The show was old news when I got around to seeing it for the first time, and my attention was largely fixed upon the special effects, so cheesy I wondered if Velveeta was the alternate sponsor. So it never quite dawned on me, even when she was actually on screen, that Anne Jeffreys looked like this:
She’s still with us: she turns 87 today.
McGehee »
26 January 2010 · 12:21 pm
I looked at her IMDb page and realized I’d seen her mostly as Amanda Barrington on “General Hospital” back in the ’80s, and IMDb says she’s apparently still playing that role.
Now I’ll have to look up how old Anna Lee was the last time she appeared as Lila Quartermain. Anne may be closing in on her record.
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Apparently Anna was 90 when they fired (!!!) (???) (!!!) her.
Lisa Paul »
26 January 2010 · 1:35 pm
I had the pleasure of meeting Anne Jeffreys through her nephew (who was named Jeffreys after her). She is a wonderful lady full of more life than a twenty year old.
She was apparently so talented when she was a girl that her small town took up a collection to pull together the money to send her to Hollywood. The rest is celluloid history.
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