Alice Ghostley, the beloved character actress who made a career out of playing flustered or dingy types, has died.An accomplished stage performer (she won the Tony Award for the drama The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, and played Miss Hannigan in the original Broadway run of Annie), Ghostley was mostly known for her nearly 50 years on television.
Among her many appearances, Ghostley played an ugly stepsister to Julie Andrews' Cinderella, the bumbling Esmeralda on Bewitched, and eccentric Sugarbaker family friend Bernice Clifton on Designing Women, which earned her her one and only Emmy nomination. On film, she appeared in such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate and Grease.
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