Elisabeth Fraser
Actor, Film actor
1920 – 2005
Who was Elisabeth Fraser?
Elisabeth Fraser was a television, film and stage actress, best known for playing brassy blondes.
Born as Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, New York, Fraser began her acting career six weeks after graduating from high school; she was cast as the ingenue in the Broadway production of There Shall Be No Night, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1940-1941 season. Fraser obtained a contract with Warner Brothers studios. She appeared in dozens of films.
One of her first roles was in The Man Who Came to Dinner as the young daughter of the Ohio couple forced to put up with Monty Woolley, who tells her to follow her heart to the man she loves, a trade unionist in her father's company, regardless of her father's feelings. She also appeared in All My Sons, Roseanna McCoy, and So Big.
Her most notable role was as Shelley Winters' character's friend in the 1965 hit film A Patch of Blue. She also played in the movie Ask Any Girl as Jeannie with Shirley MacLaine. Fraser's stage career spanned over three decades and included Broadway productions of The Best Man, The Family, and Tunnel of Love.
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- Born
- Jan 8, 1920
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Elisabeth Fraser Jonker
- Elizabeth Fraser
- Spouses
- Ray McDonald
(1944/10/27 - 1952/06/18) - Charles K. Peck Jr.
(1952/06/21 - 1957/06)
- Ray McDonald
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- May 5, 2005
Woodland Hills
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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