AMANDA "MISS KITTY" BLAKE - DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 255566
Sale Price $495.00
Reg. $600.00
AMANDA "MISS KITTY" BLAKE
Insurance claim for "surgery" signed with Blake's married name "Amanda
Gilbert" as well as her stage name. She was married to writer/producer Frank
Gilbert from 1967 to 1982.
Insurance claim signed "Amanda B. Gilbert AKA Amanda Blake". 2 pages,
8 1/2 x 11 (front and verso). Insurance claim with The Union Labor Life
Insurance Company through the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Welfare Plan for
Motion Picture Actors. This undated insurance claim has few details. It lists
her Ventura Blvd. address in Studio City, California and lists her illness as
"Surgery", but is mostly blank.Blake was married to writer/producer
Frank Gilbert from 1967 to 1982, hence the signature "Amanda Gilbert". Blake
(1929-1989), born Beverly Louise Neill, is best remembered as Kitty
Russell, hostess of the Long Branch Saloon in the long-running TV Western,
Gunsmoke (1955-1974; she left the show before its final season).She was nominated for Golden Globes for Best Actress - Drama for the
role in 1969 and 1970 and for the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe in
1971. Blake, who had been signed by MGM in 1949, made her film debut in 1950,
the year she was first cast opposite her future Gunsmoke co-star, James
Arness, in Stars in My Crown. Her feature film credits also include
Sunny Side of the Street (1951), Lili (1953), A Star is
Born (1954) and High Society (1955). Blake, who made guest
appearances on TV shows from 1952 (Schlitz Playhouse of Stars) to 1983
(Hart to Hart), also starred in several made-for-TV movies, including
1987's Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge, a "reunion" film. Lightly toned
and creased, otherwise in fine condition.
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