Elizabeth Reller

Last updated

Elizabeth Reller (December 4, 1913 - July 14, 1974) [1] was an American actress, best known for her work in old-time radio. She was active from 1935 until 1948.

Contents

Early years

Reller was born in Richmond, Indiana, [2] descended from a Quaker family whose roots went back to the early days of Wayne County, Indiana. [3] She was active in Morton High School's Dramatic Club [4] and studied dramatics at Swarthmore College [2] for two years. She went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England in 1935. [1]

Career

On Broadway, Reller appeared in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) and Day in the Sun (1939). [5]

Reller's roles on radio programs included those shown in the table below.

ProgramCharacter
Armstrong's Theatre of Today Quaker Girl [6]
Betty and Bob Betty Drake [7]
Doc Barclay's Daughters Connie [7] :100
Michael and KittyKitty [7] :228
Portia Faces Life Kathy Campbell [2]
Young Doctor Malone Ann Malone [7] :361

She was also a supporting actress on The Amazing Mr. Smith [8] and Joe Powers of Oakville. [7] :177

Personal life

In 1944, Reller married Dr. F. B. Warrick, a physician, in New York City. They moved to Richmond, Indiana, in 1948. After that move, she retired from acting. She taught a class in the local Religious Society of Friends church, and spoke on religious topics at meetings of groups in Richmond. She and her husband were lay leaders at religious retreats in a variety of places in the United States. She was also active in the Meals on Wheels program in Richmond. [1]

Death

On July 14, 1974, Relled died at University Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, at age 60. [1]

Related Research Articles

Richmond, Indiana City in Indiana, United States

Richmond is a city in east central Indiana, United States, bordering on Ohio. It is the county seat of Wayne County, and in the 2010 census had a population of 36,812. Situated largely within Wayne Township, its area includes a non-contiguous portion in nearby Boston Township, where Richmond Municipal Airport is.

Penny Singleton American actress (1908-2003)

Penny Singleton was an American actress and labor leader. During her 60-year career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962–1963.

Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917) American film, theater, and television actress

Marsha Hunt is an American retired actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning over 70 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.

Peggy Knudsen American actress

Peggy Knudsen was an American character actress.

Victoria Shaw (actress) Australian actress

Victoria Shaw was an Australian actress.

The year 1974 in radio involved some significant events.

Lillian Albertson Actress, theatrical producer

Lillian Albertson was an American stage and screen actress, and a noted theatrical producer.

Gloria Henry American actress

Gloria Eileen McEniry, known professionally as Gloria Henry, is an American actress, best known for her role as Alice Mitchell, Dennis’s mother, from 1959 to 1963 on the CBS family sitcom Dennis the Menace.

Claudia Morgan American film, television and radio actress

Claudia Louise Morgan was an American film, television, and radio actress. She was best known for debuting the role of Vera Claythorne in the first Broadway production of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians and for her portrayal of Nora Charles on the 1940s radio series, The Adventures of the Thin Man.

Agnes Vernon American actress

Agnes Vernon was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 90 films between 1914 and 1921. She made a number of films in Australia, having been brought out there by Snowy Baker and E.J. Carroll. She sometimes appeared credited as Brownie Vernon or Bernice Vere.

Mary B. Thistlethwaite Birdsall (1828–1894) was born in Pennsylvania to English immigrants. She grew up on a farm near Richmond, Indiana, where she married Thomas Birdsall in 1848. They had three sons together. She was a journalist, a suffragist, and a temperance worker. She began her journalism career as the woman's editor at the Indiana Farmer newspaper. For about five years she owned The Lily, a newspaper for women, which she purchased from suffragist Amelia Bloomer in 1854. She helped organize the second women's rights convention in Indiana. At that Indiana convention in 1852, she was elected as secretary for the newly-formed Indiana Woman's Rights Association (renamed the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association in 1869, and eventually became president of the organization. Birdsall was a vice-president at the fourth National Women's Rights Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. She was among the first three women to address the Indiana legislature in 1859 to present a women's rights petition, speaking for a half-hour in support of women's suffrage. Birdsall died in Philadelphia in 1894 and interred at Earlham Cemetery in Richmond. Her Richmond home, a model of progressive architecture as espoused by Catherine Beecher, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Alice Reinheart American actress

Alice Reinheart was an American actress, best known for her work in old-time radio. An article in the September 1940 issue of Radio and Television Mirror magazine described her as "pert, vivacious, beautiful and talented in writing and music as well as acting."

Elizabeth "Betty" Wragge was an actress who appeared on more than 10,000 old-time radio programs in addition to working in other media. She was sometimes billed as Elizabeth Wragge.

The 1943 Bunker Hill Naval Air Station Blockbusters football team represented Naval Air Station Bunker Hill in the 1943 college football season. The team compiled a 6–0 record. Lieutenant Howard Kissell served as the team's head coach.

The 1944 Bunker Hill Naval Air Station Blockbusters football team represented Naval Air Station Bunker Hill in the 1944 college football season. The team compiled a record 6–1. Lieutenant Howard Kissell was the team's head coach until mid-October when he was reassigned overseas and replaced by Lieutenant Commander Len Watters.

Adelaide Klein was an actress who performed on radio, television, films, and the stage. She was best known for her dialects as a radio performer. Over the course of her thirty-year career, Klein performed in radio comedies and soap operas, appeared in eight shows on Broadway, four films, and on thirteen television series. She died at the age of 82 in 1983.

Kathleen Kerrigan was an American actress on stage and in the early years of films.

Mary Workman, better known by the stage name Sunshine Sue, was an American country music singer best known for her work on the Old Dominion Barn Dance radio program. Her obituary, distributed by the Associated Press, noted that she was "the first woman radio show emcee in the country."

Lola Lane American actress

Lola Lane was an American actress and one of the Lane Sisters with her sisters Leota, Rosemary, and Priscilla Lane. She appeared on Broadway and in films from the 1920s to 1940s.

Renne Gail Jarrett is an American actress.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mrs. F.B. Warrick Dies; Once Radio, Stage Actress". Palladium-Item. Indiana, Richmond. July 16, 1974. p. 7. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hoosiers And Orient Dominate Airlanes". The Indianapolis Star. Indiana, Indianapolis. April 10, 1948. p. 13. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Elizabeth Reller Warrick". Palladium-Item. Indiana, Richmond. July 18, 1974. p. 6. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Miss Reller in 'Holiday'". The Richmond Item. Indiana, Richmond. November 15, 1931. p. 7. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "(Elizabeth Reller" search results)". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Little, Mary (May 16, 1942). "Airglances". The Des Moines Register. Iowa, Des Moines. p. 8. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 36. ISBN   978-0-7864-4513-4.
  8. ↑ "Acts on Monday Show". The Evening News. Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. May 24, 1941. p. 12. Retrieved June 8, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.