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Vivian Vance
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Actor Born: July 26, 1909 in Cherryvale, KS Death: August 17, 1979 in Belvedere, CA Biography:Born in Kansas, "Vivian Vance" began appearing in community theater productions when her family relocated to Albuquerque, NM. Her friends and neighbors financed Vance's move to New York, where she planned to study with Eva LeGalliene. When these plans fell through, she made the auditions rounds, landing a job in the long-running Broadway production Music in the Air. She supplemented her income with nightclub performances, then received her big break when, with only a few hours' notice, she stepped into the female lead of the 1937 "Ed Wynn" musical Hooray for What? Subsequent Broadway credits included Anything Goes, Red, Hot and Blue, and Let's Face It, each one a hit. In 1951, "Jose Ferrer" cast Vance in the La Jolla Playhouse production of Voice of the Turtle. It was on the strength of her performance of this play that Vance was offered the role of Ethel Mertz on the "Lucille Ball"/"Desi Arnaz" TV... Full Biography
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