Whitney Blake

Whitney Blake

Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 - September 28, 2002) was a film and television actress, and mother of actress Meredith Baxter. She also directed films and was co-creator of the television sitcom "One Day at a Time", with her third husband, writer Allan Manings.

The attractive blonde actress (born Nancy Whitney) appeared on a number of television programs but is probably best remembered for playing Dorothy ("Mrs. B.") Baxter, an interior designer and wife of a successful attorney Harold Baxter (Don DeFore), on the sitcom "Hazel" (1961) starring Shirley Booth. After demand for her in network television and films dwindled, Blake became a hostess of a Los Angeles television talk show. After that, Blake reinvented herself again and became a film and TV director, producer and writer.

Miss Blake appeared as "Angie" in "Incident of the Curious Street" during the second season of Rawhide, and played leading lady to James Garner in "The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick," the 1958 second season opener for "Maverick".

She appeared on the first episode of the long running television program "Perry Mason" and appeared in the first film version of a Mike Hammer novel when she starred in "My Gun Is Quick" in the 1950s.

Singer Whitney Houston was named after her.

She died of cancer at her home in Edgartown, Massachusetts at the age of 76.

Children:Richard Whitney (b. November 24, 1944)Brian Thomas (b. February 18, 1946)
Meredith Baxter (b. June 21, 1947)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086756/ Whitney Blake] at the Internet Movie Database.


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