Vanessa Brown, actress, writer, 71
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Vanessa Brown
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vanessa Brown, who made her Broadway debut at 13 and played
ingenue roles in films of the 1940s and '50s before becoming a journalist, died
of cancer Friday. She was 71.
She made her first movie at 16, 1944's ``Youth Runs Wild,'' and her other films
of the 1940s and 1950s included ``Margie,'' ``The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' and
``The Bad and the Beautiful.''
Born Smylla Brind in 1928 in Vienna, her family fled the Nazis when she was 9,
moving first to France and then America. She heard that the producer of the
play ``Watch on the Rhine'' was looking for a girl with a German accent. She
went to the play's author, Lillian Hellman, got an understudy part and by the
end of the Broadway run was a regular cast member.
A year later, at 14, Ms. Brown joined ``The Quiz Kids'' radio show. The popular
program had a panel of children answering listeners' questions.
She also did stage work, appearing on Broadway in 1952 in ``The Seven Year
Itch.''
She left acting after marrying her second husband, director Mark Sandrich Jr.,
in 1959, but returned to the screen in the 1967 film ``Rosie.''
In the 1980s and 1990s she appeared on such television shows as ``General
Hospital,'' ``Murder, She Wrote'' and ``Homicide: Life on the Streets.''
Ms. Brown also was a playwright, novelist and a journalist, publishing in many
newspapers and magazines and freelancing for the Voice of America.
From the IMDB:
Actress filmography
(1990s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s) (1940s)
1.Österreicher in Hollywood (1994) (TV) .... Herself
2."General Hospital" (1963) TV Series .... Mrs. DeFreest (1979)
3.Witch Who Came from the Sea, The (1976)
4.Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) .... Goodenow's Mother
5.Rosie! (1968) .... Edith
6."My Favorite Husband" (1953) TV Series .... Liz Cooper (1955)
7.Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) (uncredited) .... Kay Amiel
8.Fighter, The (1952) .... Kathy
9.Basketball Fix, The (1951) .... Pat Judd
10.Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) .... Jane
11.Three Husbands (1950) .... Mary Whittaker
... aka Letter to Three Husbands (1950)
12.Heiress, The (1949) .... Maria
13."Leave It to the Girls" (1949) TV Series .... Panelist (1949-1954)
14.Big Jack (1949) .... Patricia Mahoney
15.Secret of St. Ives, The (1949) .... Floria Gilchrist
16.Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) .... Anna Muir as adult
17.Late George Apley, The (1947) .... Agnes
18.Foxes of Harrow, The (1947) .... Aurore D'Arceneaux
19.Mother Wore Tights (1947) .... Bessie
20.I've Always Loved You (1946) .... Porky at 17
... aka Concerto (1946)
21.Margie (1946) .... Wanda
22.Girl of the Limberlost, The (1945) .... Helen Brownlee
23.Youth Runs Wild (1944) (as Tessa Brind) .... Sarah Taylor
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Filmography as: Actress, Notable TV guest appearances
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Notable TV guest appearances
1."Murder, She Wrote" (1984) playing "Alma Goodrich" in episode: "Search for
Peter Kerry, The" (episode # 5.11) 2/5/1989
2."Twilight Zone, The" (1985) playing "Aunt Beulah" in episode: "Message from
Charity, A" (episode # 1.15) 11/1/1985
3."Perry Mason" (1957) playing "Donna Kress" in episode: "Case of Paul Drake's
Dilemma, The" (episode # 3.6) 11/14/1959
4."Wagon Train" (1957) in episode: "Sally Potter Story, The" (episode # 1.28)
4/9/1958
5."Philco Television Playhouse, The" (1948) in episode: "Monument, The"
(episode # 4.19) 6/29/1952
6."Sunday Mystery Hour, The" (1960) playing "Carol Penn" in episode: "Murder by
the Book"