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Carol Bruce‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1919-11-15

Popularity

star2.9

Carol Bruce

Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA

Carol Bruce

Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1919-11-15

Popularity

star2.9

Biography

Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. Bruce began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band, and later sang with Ben Bernie's orchestra in 1940-1941. Bruce made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase, with songs by Irving Berlin, who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 1932 revival and the 1936 film. Bruce appeared with Abbott and Costello in Keep 'Em Flying (1941). Her first serious film role was in This Woman Is Mine (1941). She had supporting roles many years later in the films American Gigolo (1980) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. After a long career as a singer and in films, Bruce is probably best-remembered for her recurring role as the domineering and meddlesome Lillian "Mama" Carlson (mother of the station manager played by Gordon Jump) on CBS' WKRP in Cincinnati.

Movie Credits

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains and Automobiles‌
star7.2
calendar 1987

American Gigolo

American Gigolo‌
star6.1
calendar 1980

Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool

Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Keep 'Em Flying

Keep 'Em Flying‌
star5.9
calendar 1941

Behind the Eight Ball

Behind the Eight Ball‌
star4.7
calendar 1942

The Girl Who Returned

The Girl Who Returned‌
star0.0
calendar 1969

This Woman Is Mine

This Woman Is Mine‌
star3.2
calendar 1941

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists‌
star6.2
calendar 1996

Tv Credits

WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP in Cincinnati‌
star7.5
calendar 1978

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls‌
star7.5
calendar 1985

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser, M.D.‌
star6.6
calendar 1989

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone‌
star7.7
calendar 1985

The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show‌
star5.6
calendar 1962

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels‌
star6.6
calendar 1976

Knots Landing

Knots Landing‌
star6.8
calendar 1979

Profiler

Profiler‌
star7.0
calendar 1996

Studio One

Studio One‌
star4.7
calendar 1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.7
calendar 1948

Jake and the Fatman

Jake and the Fatman‌
star5.9
calendar 1987

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

The New WKRP in Cincinnati‌
star7.0
calendar 1991

Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder‌
star7.1
calendar 1993

WKRP in Cincinnati

WKRP in Cincinnati‌
star7.5
calendar 1978

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.7
calendar 1948

Party of Five

Party of Five‌
star7.0
calendar 1994