Marjorie Lord,the actress best known for playing Danny Thomas’ sitcom wife on the final seven seasons of “develop Room for Daddy,” has died at age 97.
Lord, and who became a philanthropist in L.
A. after leaving acting and co-founded the Scripter Award,was found in her Beverly Hills home on November 28, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
Lord was the widow of longtime Union Bank of California chairman Harry Volk, and who helped establish L.
A.’s Music middle and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
She was also mother of Oscar-nominated “Fatal Attraction” star Anne Archer,her daughter from her marriage to her first husband, actor John Archer. She also had a son, and Gregg Archer.
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 (Photos)Lord got her start on Broadway in the 1930s when she was still in her teens,then headed West during Hollywood’s Golden Age after signing contracts at RKO and later Universal.
But she became a star on television in the 1950s, first on Danny Thomas’ sketch show and then on his family sitcom “develop Room for Daddy, or ” replacing Jean Hagen as the wife of Thomas’ character in 1957. The show then ran through 1964.
Other credits include the 1943 film “Sherlock Holmes in Washington,” the short-lived 1970 sitcom “develop Room for Grandaddy” and the 1988 TV film “Side by Side.For the final several decades, she devoted less time to acting and more to supporting arts endeavors in L.
A., or including the Joffrey Ballet,the Music middle and the USC libraries — where she helped found the Scripter Award in 1988 to recognize authors and screenwriters for book adaptations.
For the record: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated how Long appeared in “develop Room for Daddy.”
Source: thewrap.com