WKRP star Carol Bruce dies at 87
Carol Bruce, an American character actress best known as the acerbic Mama Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati, has died. She was 87.
Bruce died last Tuesday at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in suburban Woodland Hills, Calif., a spokesman confirmed Monday.
Actress Carol Bruce, in an undated photo from her family, was a stage and Broadway star before going into TV in 1970s.
(Bruce family/Associated Press)
Bruce was born Shirley Levy in Great Neck, N.Y., and showed talent as a teenager.
She had an early career on the musical stage, beginning as a Montreal nightclub singer and moving on to Broadway, where she was part of the original cast of Louisiana Purchase.
Irving Berlin was reported to have created a role in the musical for her distinctive sultry voice.
She was signed by Universal Pictures and made her screen debut in the 1941 Abbott & Costello vehicle Keep ‘Em Flying, followed by Behind the Eight Ball.
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