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Charlotte Rae
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Actor Born: April 22, 1926 in Milwaukee, WI Biography:Even as a teenaged performer with the Shorewood Players, a Milwaukee community-theatre group, "Charlotte Rae" thrived in playing characters much older than herself. Example: at 16, Charlotte starred as Dolly Gallegher Levi in a Shorewood production of Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers (her 28-year-old "Horace Vandergelder" was future Broadway director Morton DaCosta). Following graduation from Northwestern University, Rae made her Broadway bow in 1952's Three Wishes for Jamie. The following year, she scored a hit as Mrs. Peachum in the long-running off-Broadway revival of Brecht and "Kurt Weill"'s Threepenny Opera, and within three years she was portraying the ancient, wizened Mammy Yokum in "Li'l Abner". She was a favorite of TV producer Nat Hiken, who hired her for several guest spots on "The Phil Silvers Show". In 1961, Hiken cast the 35-year-old Charlotte as middle-aged hausfrau Sylvia... Full Biography
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