Broadway Veteran Phyllis Love Dies at 85
By: Nicole Rosky Nov. 07, 2011
According to published reports, Broadway veteran Phyllis Love passed away October 30, in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 85 years old.
Love's Broadway credits included: The Member of the Wedding, Country Girl, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, and Bus Stop. She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1951 for her role in The Rose Tattoo. On television, she appeared principally in guest roles from 1950 until her retirement in the early 1970s.
She also taught English and drama at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California.
Love married James Vincent McGee in 1948 and they divorced in 1978; he died in 1985. She was married to her college sweetheart, Alan Paul Gooding from January 22, 1983.
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