- Born Name: Anne Carmichael
- Birthday: 1923-01-26 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Joseph R. Serena (1945 - 1949, annulled) Robert Sterling (1951 - 2006, his death)
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- Medium: Actress, singer
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Anne Jeffreys, Anne Jeffreys (born on January 26, 1923) is an American actress and singer.[edit] CareerBorn Anne Carmichael in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Jeffreys entered the entertainment field at a young age; her initial training was in voice (she was an accomplished soprano), but she decided as a teenager to sign with the John Robert Powers agency as a junior model.Her plans for an operatic career were sidelined when she was cast in a staged musical review, Fun for the Money. Her appearance in that revue led to her being cast in her first movie role, in I Married an Angel (1942), starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. She was under contract to both RKO and Republic Studios during the 1940s, including several appearances as Tess Trueheart in the Dick Tracy series, and the 1944 Frank Sinatra musical Step Lively. She also appeared in the horror comedy Zombies on Broadway with Wally Brown and Alan Carney in 1945.When her career faltered, she instead focused on her stage career, playing lead roles on Broadway in productions such as the 1947 opera Street Scene, the 1948 Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate (having replaced Patricia Morison) and the 1952 musical Three Wishes for Jamie. With long-term husband Robert Sterling, who was first married to Ann Sothern, she appeared in the CBS sitcom Topper (1953–1955), in which she was billed in a voiceover as the ghostess with the mostest.After a semi-retirement in the 1960s, she appeared on television, appearing in episodes of such TV series as L.A. Law and Murder, She Wrote. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in The Delphi Bureau (1972). From 1984 to 1985, she starred in the short-lived Aaron Spelling series Finder of Lost Loves. She also appeared in Baywatch as David Hasselhoffs mother, and also had a recurring role in the night-time soap Falcon Crest as Amanda Croft.In 1979, she guest-starred as Siress Blassie in the Battlestar Galactica episode The Man With Nine Lives as a love interest of Chameleon, a part played by Fred Astaire. She was the last person to dance with him onscreen. She also guess-starred as Prime Minister Dyne in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode Planet of the Amazon Women as the leader of the titular planet.Her most recent career has been in daytime television; since 1984, she has appeared on the soap opera General Hospital (as well as its short-lived spinoff, Port Charles) as wealthy socialite Amanda Barrington.Jeffreys star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 1501 Vine Street.[edit] Personal lifeJeffreys has been married twice. Her first marriage, to Joseph Serena, was annulled in 1949.She married actor Robert Sterling in 1951. Sterling appeared with Jeffreys in the series Topper. In January 1958, the duo tried another series, Love That Jill. It ran only a few months, with 13 episodes shot. They had three sons: Jeffrey, Dana and Tyler. Robert Sterling died on May 30, 2006 at age 88.[edit] External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to: Anne JeffreysAnne Jeffreys at the Internet Movie DatabaseAnne Jeffreys at the Internet Broadway DatabaseAnne Jeffreys at AllmovieAnne Jeffreys at Yahoo! MoviesAnne Jeffreys profiled in bookPersondataNameJeffreys, AnneAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthJanuary 26, 1923Place of birthGoldsboro, North Carolina,United StatesDate of deathPlace of deathRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_JeffreysCategories: 1923 births | Actors from North Carolina | American female singers | American film actors | American television actors | Living people | People from Goldsboro, North CarolinaHidden categories: BLP articles lacking sources from October 2010 | Articles lacking reliable references from October 2010 | All articles needing additional references | Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschРусскийSuomi This page was last modified on 26 January 2011 at 06:42.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();