Actress Sheree North, 72
Posted: Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 10:15 am
Sheree North, who aged gracefully from a platinum blond bombshell in the 1950s to older character roles in television productions including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Seinfeld,” died Friday of complication from surgery in Los Angeles. She was 72.
North initially was groomed as a glamor girl who could substitute for the often unreliable Marilyn Monroe, and did in fact replace Monroe in the 1955 film “How to Be Very, Very Popular.” …
She appeared in such popular stage musicals as “Can-Can” and “Bye Bye Birdie,” and in 2000 played the Southern belle Amanda in a production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” at the Laguna Playhouse.
Her decades-long film career included performances in “The Outfit” with Robert Duvall in 1973, “The Shootist” starring John Wayne in 1976 and “Defenseless” in 1991 with Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard. … Read full obituary
