Curiosidades

Won a posthumous comedy supporting actress Emmy for her side-splitting work as neighborhood snoop Gladys Kravitz on A Feiticeira (1964). Her award was accepted by her husband, Paul Davis. Only two years later, Marion Lorne, as delightfully dithery Aunt Clara, also won a posthumous Emmy in the very same acting category. Elizabeth Montgomery accepted the award for Ms. Lorne.

Star Elizabeth Montgomery and husband/director William Asher helped Alice's husband Paul Davis after her death by giving him a job as a director on A Feiticeira (1964). Davis, once a Broadway director, had given up his career to nurse Alice through her final illness.

ABC broke into the prime-time broadcast of A Feiticeira (1964) to announce her death.

In May of 1964 she had surgery and was already diagnosed with terminal cancer by the time she began A Feiticeira (1964) in September of that year. She managed to keep it a secret and passed away 1-1/2 years into the series.

She worked on A Feiticeira (1964) up until two weeks before her death from cancer.

Educated in schools in Europe, she returned to the US at age 15 and eventually attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, graduating in 1940.

First husband, composer John Rox, was a songwriter and stage and film composer who wrote such hits as "It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World." They put together Alice's nightclub acts for such venues as the Blue Angel in New York during the '40s.

Met second husband Paul Davis in 1957 when she was appearing in the Broadway musical "Bells Are Ringing" starring Judy Holliday. She replaced Jean Stapleton in the show and Paul was the stage manager.

Alice portrayed blind date Lucy Schmeeler in the original Broadway stage version of "On the Town" and reprised her role in the classic movie musical Um Dia em Nova York (1949).

Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

She died just hours before on the same day as actor William Frawley (I Love Lucy).

A close acquaintance of both writer, Patrick Dennis (author of Auntie Mame), and photographer, Cris Alexander, she was featured in two of the Dennis' books. They are 'Little Me' and ' First Lady : My Thirty Days Upstairs in the Whitehouse'. Photos of her, portraying different characters, are used in both books.