Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. Bruce began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band, and later sang with Ben Bernies orchestra in 1940-1941. Bruce made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase, with songs by Irving Berlin, who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein IIs Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 1932 revival and the 1936 film. Bruce appeared with Abbott and Costello in Keep Em Flying (1941). Her first serious film role was in This Woman Is Mine (1941). She had supporting roles many years later in the films American Gigolo (1980) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. After a long career as a singer and in films, Bruce is probably best-remembered for her recurring role as the domineering and meddlesome Lillian Mama Carlson (mother of the station manager played by Gordon Jump) on CBS WKRP in Cincinnati.

Filmy nedostupný z Carol Bruce

American Gigolo

Mrs. Sloan

Film 1980

Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool

Singer

Film 1937

Behind the Eight Ball

Joan Barry

Film 1942

The Girl Who Returned

(voice)

Film 1969

This Woman Is Mine

Julie Morgan

Film 1941

televizní seriál nedostupný z Carol Bruce

WKRP in Cincinnati

Tv 1978

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Tv 1989

The Twilight Zone

Tv 1985

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

Tv 1962

Charlie's Angels

Mrs. Pattison

Tv 1976

Profiler

Tv 1996

Studio One

Tv 1948

Jake and the Fatman

Tv 1987

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

Tv 1991

Diagnosis: Murder

Constance Lockwood

Tv 1993

WKRP in Cincinnati

Mama Carlson

Tv 1978

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Tv 1948

Party of Five

Sarah's Grandmother

Tv 1994