“Somebody said, ‘Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. She told The Associated Press in 1993 that she got her big break while doing a cabaret act in Los Angeles, singing and telling jokes. She graduated in 1948 with a degree in theater and later joined a repertory theater in Erie, Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Michigan, joking that she was a premed student “until I discovered chemistry.” She was stage-struck since the age of 6 when she and her twin sister, Harriet, earned $2 with their puppet show. She said she took to using her middle initial because “just plain Ann Davis goes by pretty fast.” She was born Ann Bradford Davis in 1926, in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. It brought Davis supporting actress Emmy Awards in 19.Īfter the series ended in 1959, Davis appeared in such movies as “A Man Called Peter,” ‘’Lover Come Back” and “All Hands on Deck.” During layoffs she played in summer stock.īetween her two better-known shows, she played a gym teacher at an exclusive girls’ school in 1965-66 in “The John Forsythe Show.”ĭuring her stints in “The Bob Cummings Show” and “The Brady Bunch,” she used the layoffs to appear in summer theater with such shows as “Three on a Honeymoon.” She also toured with the USO to entertain U.S. Older TV viewers remember Davis for another non-glamorous role, on “The Bob Cummings Show,” also known as “Love That Bob.” She played Schultzy, the assistant to Cummings’ character, a handsome, swinging bachelor photographer always chasing beautiful women.
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