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.
Mrs. Sloan
电影 1980
Singer
电影 1937
Joan Barry
电影 1942
(voice)
电影 1969
Julie Morgan
电影 1941
Tv 1978
Tv 1989
Tv 1985
Self
Tv 1962
Mrs. Pattison
Tv 1976
Tv 1996
Tv 1948
Tv 1987
Tv 1991
Constance Lockwood
Tv 1993
Mama Carlson
Tv 1978
Self
Tv 1948
Sarah's Grandmother
Tv 1994