Alice Ghostley

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<table><tr><td>Her act, as reported many years later consisted of : "Appearing in horn-rimmed glasses and dressed in a frumpy black sweater, she stumbled across the stage as a bewildered, sexually repressed young woman, crooning to a beguine beat about her ill-fated romance with a Harvard man, underneath a 'Voodoo moon' in Boston."
 
<table><tr><td>Her act, as reported many years later consisted of : "Appearing in horn-rimmed glasses and dressed in a frumpy black sweater, she stumbled across the stage as a bewildered, sexually repressed young woman, crooning to a beguine beat about her ill-fated romance with a Harvard man, underneath a 'Voodoo moon' in Boston."
  
At the Fireside Inn in New York City, where she was singing, Alice met Italian-born actor Felice Antonio Orlandi in 1951.  He had been born in 1924 in Avezzano, Italy.  She stated in one interview that she proposed to him and he accepted after several months.  They married in the Autumn of 1951.  In their first few years of marriage, Alice went on-the-road in ''New Faces'' and was gone for six months.
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At the Fireside Inn in New York City, where she was singing, Alice met Italian-born actor Felice Antonio Orlandi in 1951.  He had been born in 1924 in Avezzano, Italy.  She stated in one interview that she proposed to him and he accepted after several months.  They married in the Autumn of 1951.  In their first few years of marriage, Alice went on-the-road in ''New Faces'' and was gone for six months. (Note: Sources do not agree exactly on how many months she was gone, six to nine certainly.)
  
 
Some sources in error will state that they married in 1953.  This is probably based on a bad reading on one of several early interviews which Alice gave.  However, the clear indication of their marriage year, is the  interview in 1988 stating "the couple will this Autumn celebrate their thirty-seventh anniversary".
 
Some sources in error will state that they married in 1953.  This is probably based on a bad reading on one of several early interviews which Alice gave.  However, the clear indication of their marriage year, is the  interview in 1988 stating "the couple will this Autumn celebrate their thirty-seventh anniversary".

Revision as of 18:31, 6 August 2008

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