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Dorothy Loudon

Dorothy Loudon

Actor, Music Department

Born September 17, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died November 15, 2003

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Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for her lead performances in the musicals The Fig Leaves Are Falling and Ballroom, as well as a Golden Globe award for her appearances on The Garry Moore Show. Loudon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925 (she later shaved eight years off her age) and raised in Claremont, New Hampshire and Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended Syracuse University on a drama scholarship but did not graduate, and moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began singing in night clubs, mingling song with ad-libbed comedy patter, and was featured on television on The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show.

Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols. That same year she made her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go but Up, which ran only two weeks but earned her good reviews and the Theatre World Award. In 1969, The Fig Leaves Are Falling ran for only four performances, although it won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. Loudon was chosen as the replacement for Carol Burnett when Burnett left The Garry Moore Show in 1962. Although that collaboration was not altogether successful, the excellent reviews she received the same year for her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go but Up proved prophetic. Coincidentally, the two roles Loudon later played so successfully on Broadway stage —Miss Hannigan and Dotty Otley — were both played by Burnett onscreen. She also was a frequent guest star on many New York based comedy and game shows. In 1979, Loudon starred in the television series Dorothy, in which she portrayed a former showgirl teaching music and drama at a boarding school for girls. It lasted only one season. She appeared in only two films, playing an agent in the film Garbo Talks (1984) and a Southern eccentric in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).

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Filmography

Actor

57

Type

Year

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Poster

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards TV Special2004

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Poster

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Feature Film1997

A Salute to Broadway: Showstoppers TV Special1988

In Performance at the White House: A Salute to Broadway, Showstoppers Poster

In Performance at the White House: A Salute to Broadway, Showstoppers TV Special1988

Biography Poster

Biography TV Series1987

The 8th Annual Cable ACE Awards TV Special1987

The 40th Annual Tony Awards TV Special1986

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade TV Special1985

Garbo Talks Poster

Garbo Talks Feature Film1984

Murder, She Wrote Poster

Murder, She Wrote TV Series1984

The 38th Annual Tony Awards Poster

The 38th Annual Tony Awards TV Special1984

Parade of Stars TV Special1983

The 37th Annual Tony Awards Poster

The 37th Annual Tony Awards TV Special1983

The Best of Everything Poster

The Best of Everything TV Special1983

Night of 100 Stars Poster

Night of 100 Stars TV Special1982

Magnum, P.I. Poster

Magnum, P.I. TV Series1980

Dorothy TV Series1979

The 33rd Annual Tony Awards TV Special1979

The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor Poster

The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor TV Special1978

The 31st Annual Tony Awards TV Special1977

The Annie Christmas Show TV Special1977

Ma and Pa TV Movie1974

Great Performances Poster

Great Performances TV Series1971

All My Children Poster

All My Children TV Series1970

The 23rd Annual Tony Awards TV Special1969

Showtime TV Series1968

Snap Judgment Poster

Snap Judgment TV Series1967

The Jonathan Winters Show Poster

The Jonathan Winters Show TV Series1967

The Milton Berle Show Poster

The Milton Berle Show TV Series1966

The Dean Martin Show Poster

The Dean Martin Show TV Series1965

The Jack Paar Program Poster

The Jack Paar Program TV Series1962

The Lively Ones TV Series1962

The Match Game Poster

The Match Game TV Series1962

The Merv Griffin Show Poster

The Merv Griffin Show TV Series1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Poster

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV Series1962

Password Poster

Password TV Series1961

The DuPont Show of the Week Poster

The DuPont Show of the Week TV Series1961

The Mike Douglas Show Poster

The Mike Douglas Show TV Series1961

The Revlon Revue Poster

The Revlon Revue TV Series1960

Laugh Line TV Series1959

The Big Party TV Series1959

The Garry Moore Show Poster

The Garry Moore Show TV Series1958

The DuPont Show of the Month Poster

The DuPont Show of the Month TV Series1957

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar Poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar TV Series1957

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Poster

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show TV Series1956

To Tell the Truth Poster

To Tell the Truth TV Series1956

Captain Kangaroo Poster

Captain Kangaroo TV Series1955

Project Twenty Poster

Project Twenty TV Series1954

Cavalcade of Broadway: The Embers Short Film1952

I've Got a Secret Poster

I've Got a Secret TV Series1952

It's a Business TV Series1952

Today TV Series1952

Songs for Sale TV Series1950

The Arthur Murray Party Poster

The Arthur Murray Party TV Series1950

The Steve Allen Show TV Series1950

The Ed Sullivan Show Poster

The Ed Sullivan Show TV Series1948

Stump the Stars Poster

Stump the Stars TV Series1947

Music Department

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Dorothy TV Series1979

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