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Lori March, 90, actress, wife of Alexander Scourby
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Mar 25, 2013, 8:47:59 PM3/25/13
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According to her IMDB biography, she was married twice after Scourby's death - widowed three times. Her second husband was Howard Taubman, the longtime NY Times critic. And her stepfather was Joseph Moncure March, the poet ("The Wild Party") and screenwriter.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10556196.htm
Lori Scourby, Wife of Alexander Scourby, dies at age 90
Litchfield Associates announces that Lori March Scourby, wife of Alexander Scourby, famed actor and Audio Bible narrator, died peacefully in her sleep on March 19, 2013 at the age of 90.
New York, NY (PRWEB) March 22, 2013
Lori March Scourby, wife of Alexander Scourby, famed actor and narrator of numerous books including King James Bible, died peacefully in her sleep on March 19, 2013 at the age of 90.
Lori March Scourby was born in Hollywood, California on March 6, 1923 to actor Theodore Von Eltz and screen writer Peggy Prior, and attended Beverly Hills High School.
Lori moved to New York in 1939 to study acting and got her first role in 1940, working under the pseudonym “Lori March”. She went on to become a well known actress on television, Broadway and film working on serials, such as “The Brighter Day” and the Secret Storm.
Lori was 5 feet 5, had a slight frame and weighed 110 pounds, with sparkling brown eyes and dark brown hair. She had a quiet demeanor and always was elegantly dressed, except when she was at home, then her favorite attire were blue jeans. She was one of those people you never would forget once you met her.
While living in New York she met Alexander Scourby, an already established actor, and they married May 12, 1943. Their only child, Alexandra known as Lexi, was born on March 27, 1944. Lori gave up acting to become a full time mother and didn’t resume her acting career until Lexi was four years old.
Lori was a dedicated actress who always knew her lines and never late for an appointment. During the height of her career she was called, “The First Lady of Daytime Television”. She received a tremendous amount of fan mail and diligently worked to answer them all by hand. No Facebook, twitter or smart phones in the 1950’s.
Lori and Alexander had a home in Connecticut and an apartment in New York. Lori’s passion was gardening and she would spend long hours tending the vegetables and the fruit trees. Then in the fall she and Alex would “can” as much as they could for the winter months.
Alexander Scourby’s passion was his narration of books and he spent his extra time recording books at the recording studios of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). During his career he ended up recording over 500 books for the AFB. He was so good at his craft that the Chicago Tribune wrote that he had "the greatest voice ever recorded and was the world’s best audio book narrator bar none". His most famous recorded book was the King James Bible recorded in 1950's and it's still a best seller today.
Lori and Alexander Scourby had an idyllic life where they spent their time enjoying their acting careers, their homes in New York and Connecticut and often attending Broadway shows as well as entertaining in their home. But most importantly they enjoyed each other and it was one of those special relationships where love for each other was the foundation stone in their lives.
Lori once said the following with smiling eyes, “We have a good life, have love in our lives, good friends and similar careers that we love. We have a full balanced life and are never bored. We are very fortunate”.
Alexander Scourby died in 1985 at age 71. This reporter was privileged to know both Lori and Alexander and this is written with a deep sense of loss for two of the finest people one could ever meet. One can only hope they are both now re-united in eternity and cradled in the hands of a loving God
According to her IMDB biography, she was married twice after Scourby's death - widowed three times. Her second husband was Howard Taubman, the longtime NY Times critic. And her stepfather was Joseph Moncure March, the poet ("The Wild Party") and screenwriter.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545318/
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10556196.htm
Lori Scourby, Wife of Alexander Scourby, dies at age 90
Litchfield Associates announces that Lori March Scourby, wife of Alexander Scourby, famed actor and Audio Bible narrator, died peacefully in her sleep on March 19, 2013 at the age of 90.
New York, NY (PRWEB) March 22, 2013
Lori March Scourby, wife of Alexander Scourby, famed actor and narrator of numerous books including King James Bible, died peacefully in her sleep on March 19, 2013 at the age of 90.
Lori March Scourby was born in Hollywood, California on March 6, 1923 to actor Theodore Von Eltz and screen writer Peggy Prior, and attended Beverly Hills High School.
Lori moved to New York in 1939 to study acting and got her first role in 1940, working under the pseudonym “Lori March”. She went on to become a well known actress on television, Broadway and film working on serials, such as “The Brighter Day” and the Secret Storm.
Lori was 5 feet 5, had a slight frame and weighed 110 pounds, with sparkling brown eyes and dark brown hair. She had a quiet demeanor and always was elegantly dressed, except when she was at home, then her favorite attire were blue jeans. She was one of those people you never would forget once you met her.
While living in New York she met Alexander Scourby, an already established actor, and they married May 12, 1943. Their only child, Alexandra known as Lexi, was born on March 27, 1944. Lori gave up acting to become a full time mother and didn’t resume her acting career until Lexi was four years old.
Lori was a dedicated actress who always knew her lines and never late for an appointment. During the height of her career she was called, “The First Lady of Daytime Television”. She received a tremendous amount of fan mail and diligently worked to answer them all by hand. No Facebook, twitter or smart phones in the 1950’s.
Lori and Alexander had a home in Connecticut and an apartment in New York. Lori’s passion was gardening and she would spend long hours tending the vegetables and the fruit trees. Then in the fall she and Alex would “can” as much as they could for the winter months.
Alexander Scourby’s passion was his narration of books and he spent his extra time recording books at the recording studios of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). During his career he ended up recording over 500 books for the AFB. He was so good at his craft that the Chicago Tribune wrote that he had "the greatest voice ever recorded and was the world’s best audio book narrator bar none". His most famous recorded book was the King James Bible recorded in 1950's and it's still a best seller today.
Lori and Alexander Scourby had an idyllic life where they spent their time enjoying their acting careers, their homes in New York and Connecticut and often attending Broadway shows as well as entertaining in their home. But most importantly they enjoyed each other and it was one of those special relationships where love for each other was the foundation stone in their lives.
Lori once said the following with smiling eyes, “We have a good life, have love in our lives, good friends and similar careers that we love. We have a full balanced life and are never bored. We are very fortunate”.
Alexander Scourby died in 1985 at age 71. This reporter was privileged to know both Lori and Alexander and this is written with a deep sense of loss for two of the finest people one could ever meet. One can only hope they are both now re-united in eternity and cradled in the hands of a loving God
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Mar 25, 2013, 10:47:07 PM3/25/13
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Having worked as a recording engineer for Talking Book Productions at American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) for 20 years, I never met Alexander Scourby, but his widow, the recently deceased Lori March, served for several years as Mistress of Ceremonies at AFB's annual "Alexander Scourby Awards for Excellence in the Narration of Talking Books." Ms. March was very nice and gracious.
It was a funny thing about Alexander Scourby: a lot of people though he was British. He made a second career out of recording the King James Version of the Holy Bible both in the realms of Talking Books and commercially released audio-books. There used to be a big Christian bookstore in NYC on West 43rf Street off the Minnesota Strip. One time, I encountered a set of "Scourby Bible" cassette tapes of Mr. Scourby narrating the KJV New Testament. The packaging said something to the effect of "the words of Jesus come to life courtesy of the esteemed British dramatist Alexander Scourby ..."
Wrong on two accounts: first, a "dramatist" is a playwright, not an actor; second, Scourby was born in Brooklyn to Greek immigrant parents. I guess Scourby had that Jonathan Harris thing going and, thus, everybody thought he was a Brit.
It's a shame Ms. March-Scourby-Taubman didn't live until November of this year as she could have been around for whatever Scourby birthday centennial is planned for Nov. 13th. I don't think AFB is doing anything as they eliminated its Talking Book department in 2009 and no longer bids on Talking Book production contracts from Library of Congress. In fact I took some of the Alexander Scourby-themed wall-mounts home lest they be consigned to the dumpster.
I once found a magazine article from some daytime TV magazine from the early 1970s about Scourby's book recording career (at the time, he was a regular on "The Secret Storm"). Said article explained that Scourby was raised in the Greek Orthodox tradition but that he was really a "non-believer."
Another time at the aforementioned Christian bookstore, I
met a middle-aged woman looking through the various versions of the recorded Bible. I got into a conversation with her and told her I worked for the same company where Scourby recorded the KJV. During the brief discourse, she asked me if I would happen to know if Scourby was a Christian. Knowing what I knew, I didn't want to disillusion her nor potentially squash a sale. I replied "I don't know ... I never met the man."
From my experiences, I have concluded that everybody has one moment in his/her life evocative of the final scene of the 1988 movie "Eight Men Out" in which Buck Weaver sees his old Chicago "Black" Sox teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson playing bush-league ball under an assumed name. When Weaver overhears two businessmen recognizing Jackson, he tells that the player was NOT Jackson in hopes of saving Jackson from embarrassment.
In retrospect, this was my "Buck Weaver" moment.
I guess thi
It was a funny thing about Alexander Scourby: a lot of people though he was British. He made a second career out of recording the King James Version of the Holy Bible both in the realms of Talking Books and commercially released audio-books. There used to be a big Christian bookstore in NYC on West 43rf Street off the Minnesota Strip. One time, I encountered a set of "Scourby Bible" cassette tapes of Mr. Scourby narrating the KJV New Testament. The packaging said something to the effect of "the words of Jesus come to life courtesy of the esteemed British dramatist Alexander Scourby ..."
Wrong on two accounts: first, a "dramatist" is a playwright, not an actor; second, Scourby was born in Brooklyn to Greek immigrant parents. I guess Scourby had that Jonathan Harris thing going and, thus, everybody thought he was a Brit.
It's a shame Ms. March-Scourby-Taubman didn't live until November of this year as she could have been around for whatever Scourby birthday centennial is planned for Nov. 13th. I don't think AFB is doing anything as they eliminated its Talking Book department in 2009 and no longer bids on Talking Book production contracts from Library of Congress. In fact I took some of the Alexander Scourby-themed wall-mounts home lest they be consigned to the dumpster.
I once found a magazine article from some daytime TV magazine from the early 1970s about Scourby's book recording career (at the time, he was a regular on "The Secret Storm"). Said article explained that Scourby was raised in the Greek Orthodox tradition but that he was really a "non-believer."
Another time at the aforementioned Christian bookstore, I
met a middle-aged woman looking through the various versions of the recorded Bible. I got into a conversation with her and told her I worked for the same company where Scourby recorded the KJV. During the brief discourse, she asked me if I would happen to know if Scourby was a Christian. Knowing what I knew, I didn't want to disillusion her nor potentially squash a sale. I replied "I don't know ... I never met the man."
From my experiences, I have concluded that everybody has one moment in his/her life evocative of the final scene of the 1988 movie "Eight Men Out" in which Buck Weaver sees his old Chicago "Black" Sox teammate "Shoeless" Joe Jackson playing bush-league ball under an assumed name. When Weaver overhears two businessmen recognizing Jackson, he tells that the player was NOT Jackson in hopes of saving Jackson from embarrassment.
In retrospect, this was my "Buck Weaver" moment.
I guess thi
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