(Alice is the beautiful woman that is stand up on the top)LOS ANGELES, California -- Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.
Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes, longtime friend Jim Pinkston said.
Miles Kreuger, president of the Los Angeles-based Institute of the American Musical, said part of Ghostley's charm was that she was not glamorous.
"She was rather plain and had a splendid singing voice, and the combination of the well-trained, splendid singing voice and this kind of dowdy homemaker character was so incongruous and so charming," Kreuger said.
In the 1960s, Ghostley received a Tony nomination for various characterizations in the Broadway comedy "The Beauty Part" and eventually won for best featured actress in "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window."
From 1969 to 1972, she played the good witch and ditzy housekeeper Esmeralda on TV's "Bewitched." She played Bernice Clifton on "Designing Women" from 1987 to 1993, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 1992.
Ghostley's film credits include "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Graduate," "Gator" and "Grease."
"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue," she told The Globe. "My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress.
"But I also knew I'd find a way," she added.
Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes, longtime friend Jim Pinkston said.
Miles Kreuger, president of the Los Angeles-based Institute of the American Musical, said part of Ghostley's charm was that she was not glamorous.
"She was rather plain and had a splendid singing voice, and the combination of the well-trained, splendid singing voice and this kind of dowdy homemaker character was so incongruous and so charming," Kreuger said.
In the 1960s, Ghostley received a Tony nomination for various characterizations in the Broadway comedy "The Beauty Part" and eventually won for best featured actress in "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window."
From 1969 to 1972, she played the good witch and ditzy housekeeper Esmeralda on TV's "Bewitched." She played Bernice Clifton on "Designing Women" from 1987 to 1993, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 1992.
Ghostley's film credits include "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Graduate," "Gator" and "Grease."
"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue," she told The Globe. "My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress.
"But I also knew I'd find a way," she added.
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I really LOVE this tv serie!!!!!!! is one of my favorites! I always left everything I had to do when there were going to pass on tv. Actually I missed my cousin’s graduation because of seeing the chapter in which Samanta’s baby was born! I loved this girl (Samanta) !! She was so funny! And so smart! If I could be a tv character I would be her without doubt! I really liked it…And the character that represented her mother always reminds me to my mother, always putting her nose on things that aren’t her businesses, jaja. I guess how this actress, that has alredy died, was with her own daughters, supposing that she ad daughters. I like the idea that she died at a very old age. As everything, it is just the process of live. Sometimes we are not really conscious about the proximity that we have with death daily, Mostly at my age, we live as if we would live forever… big mistake! Mistake that we still doing every single day, and that we will continue doing. If we are not conscious about our own cycle of live, how can we be conscious about other peoples process of live, other people’s death, mainly the one that we love. If we observe, when someone we love dies, we cry a lot and feel a deep hole on our hearts…but we are so selfish that we don’t really cry for the person, very few people realized that they are really crying for themselves, because they know they are going to be more lonely than before, because they know they will miss the person, because they are repented of many things about their relationship with the person., and many other reasons that still includes themselves, but not truly the death person. If we weren’t so selfish we could understand the process of the beloved life and we would be happy because we know he is on a better condition. … Well, whatever it is… I express my condolences to Alice Ghostley’s family.
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