Alice Pearce
Acting • Born 1917-10-16 – Died 1966-03-03
Biography
Alice Pearce (October 16, 1917 - March 3, 1966) was an American actress. She was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949). Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several films before being cast as nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the TV sitcom Bewitched in 1964. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series posthumously after the second season of the series. She died from ovarian cancer in 1966.
Filmography
36 credits
The Thrill of It All
Movie • 1963
Irving's Wife
The Disorderly Orderly
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Fuzzibee, Talkative Patient
The Belle of New York
Movie • 1952
Elsie Wilkins
Tammy and the Doctor
Movie • 1963
Nurse Millie Baxter
Dear Heart
Movie • 1965
Agnes Moore
Lad: A Dog
Movie • 1962
Hilda
Dear Brigitte
Movie • 1965
Office Clerk
My Six Loves
Movie • 1963
Schoolbus driver
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1955
Dormouse
The Glass Bottom Boat
Movie • 1966
Mabel Fenimore
Kiss Me, Stupid
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Mulligan
The Opposite Sex
Movie • 1956
Olga
On the Town
Movie • 1949
Lucy Schmeeler
Bus Riley's Back in Town
Movie • 1965
Housewife
How to Be Very, Very Popular
Movie • 1955
Miss 'Syl' Sylvester
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Movie • 2023
Self/ Gladys Kravitz (archive footage)
A Bewitched Christmas
Movie • 1994
Gladys Kravitz
Studio One
TV • 1948
Regina Gavenhurst
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Gladys Kravitz
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Mrs. Ledbetter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dormouse
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mrs. Nielson
Many Happy Returns
TV • 1964
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Nina
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
Frank Sinatra Show
TV • 1957
Self
Alice Pearce
TV • 1949
Star Time
TV • 1950
Self
Startime
TV • 1959
Jamie
TV • 1953
Annie
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV • 1959
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mrs. Bliss
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Miss Talmay
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Haila French
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self