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Actor Born: February 17, 1919 in Chicago, IL Death: August 23, 2001 in New York, NY Biography:The inimitable American actress "Kathleen Freeman" has been convulsing film audiences with portrayals of dowdy, sharp-tongued matrons since she was in her 20s. After stage work, Freeman began taking bit roles in major-studio features in 1948, seldom getting screen credit but always making a positive impression. The best of her earliest roles was in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952); Freeman played long-suffering vocal coach Phoebe Dinsmore, whose Herculean efforts to get dumb movie star "Jean Hagen" to grasp the proper enunciation of the phrase "I can't staaaand him" proved uproariously futile. Often cast as domestics, Freeman had a year's run in 1953 as the "spooked" maid on the ghostly TV sitcom "Topper". Freeman was a particular favorite of comedian "Jerry Lewis", who cast the actress in showy (and billed!) roles in such farces as "The Errand Boy" (1961), "The Nutty Professor" (1963) and "Who's Got the... Full Biography
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