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Alice Pearce (October 16, 1917 - March 3, 1966)
was an United States|American actor|actress.

Born Alicia Pearce in New York City, Pearce was
educated in Europe and returned to the US as an
adult.  She began working in nightclubs as a
comedy|comedienne and was cast in the Broadway
production of On The Town. Gene Kelly was so
impressed by her, that she became the only cast
member to be included in the film version in 1949.
Her comedic performance was well received by
critics and public alike, and she was given her
own television variety show. More movie roles
followed, and she made appearances on Broadway,
where she met her husband Theatre
director|director Paul Davis during a production
of The Bells are Ringing.

In 1964 she joined the cast of the television
series Bewitched. As the nagging and nosy
neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were
almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft
she had witnessed at the house across the street.
Her hysterical accusations against Samantha,
played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief
of her husband Abner, played by George Tobias,
provided a common thread through many of the
series early episodes. Pearce was posthumously
awarded an Emmy Award for this role.

Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the show
began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died
from ovarian cancer during the second season at
the age of 48. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966
until the end of the series by actress Sandra
Gould.

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