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Carol Bruce
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Carol Bruce
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-11-15,Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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 Bernie's 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 II's 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.

Filmography

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

7.2

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987-11-26

American Gigolo

6.1

American Gigolo
1980-02-01

Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool

0

Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool
1937-12-10

Keep 'Em Flying

5.9

Keep 'Em Flying
1941-11-27

Behind the Eight Ball

4.7

Behind the Eight Ball
1942-12-04

The Girl Who Returned

0

The Girl Who Returned
1969-10-30

This Woman Is Mine

3.2

This Woman Is Mine
1941-08-22

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

6.2

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
1996-11-01

WKRP in Cincinnati

7.5

WKRP in Cincinnati
1978-09-18

The Golden Girls

7.554

The Golden Girls
1985-09-14

Doogie Howser, M.D.

6.588

Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989-09-19

The Twilight Zone

7.7

The Twilight Zone
1985-09-27

The Merv Griffin Show

5.3

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01

Charlie's Angels

6.646

Charlie's Angels
1976-09-22

6.8

Knots Landing
1979-12-27

7

Profiler
1996-09-21

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

Jake and the Fatman

5.9

Jake and the Fatman
1987-09-26

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

7

The New WKRP in Cincinnati
1991-09-07

Diagnosis: Murder

7.1

Diagnosis: Murder
1993-10-29

WKRP in Cincinnati

7.5

WKRP in Cincinnati
1978-09-18

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

7

Party of Five
1994-09-12