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American actress
Ann Tyrrell
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Born
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1909-02-06
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February 6, 1909
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Died
| July 20, 1983
(1983-07-20)
(aged 74)
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Nationality
| American
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Other names
| Ann Tyrell
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Occupation
| Actress
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Years active
| 1949–1964
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Ann Tyrrell
(February 6, 1909 – July 20, 1983) was an American stage, film and television
actress
. Tyrrell is best known for her roles in both of the
Ann Sothern
CBS
sitcoms
Private Secretary
(1953–1957) and
The Ann Sothern Show
(1958–1961).
Career
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A native of
Whatcom County
in northwestern
Washington state
, Tyrrell won her first film role in 1949 at the age of forty as Miss Swanson in
Bride for Sale
. She and Ronald Reagan shared birthdays, but she was two years his senior.
In 1953, she appeared unbilled as
Mary Tudor
sister of
Queen Elizabeth I
in the M-G-M historical drama
Queen Bess
and in 1955, she appeared in the film
Seven Angry Men
with
Raymond Massey
and
Jeffrey Hunter
. Between film appearances, Tyrrell guest starred in episodes of
Adventures of Superman
,
The Adventures of Kit Carson
, and
The People's Choice
.
Later years
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After retiring from acting, Tyrrell worked as a
dialectician
and made recordings for the blind.
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Tyrrell made her final public appearance in a phone interview on the
ABC
morning program
Good Morning America
in November, 1982. In that installment, host
Joan Lunden
interviewed on camera the cast of both
Private Secretary
and
The Ann Sothern Show
which included Sothern,
Don Porter
, and
Jesse White
. Tyrrell was not able to physically join them, but she was able to converse with Lunden and reminisce with her former co-stars via telephone from her home in California.
Death
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On July 20, 1983, Tyrrell died of a
heart attack
at a
Pasadena, California
hospital at the age of 74.
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Filmography
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References
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