Brett Somers
Brett Somers was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada on July 11th, 1924 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 83, Brett Somers biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brett Somers (born Audrey Dawn Johnston, 1924–September 15, 2007) was a Canadian-American actress, singer, and game show host who was born in New Brunswick and raised in Maine.
On Match Game, Brett was best known as a panelist on the 1970s game show Match Game, and for her recurring role as Blanche Madison opposite her real-life husband, actor Jack Klugman, on The Odd Couple.
Personal life
Somers grew up near Miramichi, Maine, and mother Audrey Dawn Johnston was born in Halcomb, near Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada. At the age of 18, she came to New York City to pursue a career in acting, settling in Greenwich Village. Brett, Ernest Hemingway's lead female character, inspired her first name. Somers, her mother's maiden name, was the chosen last name.
Robert H. Klein, a businessman from New York, was married in 1948. Leslie Klein, the marriage ended in divorce after one child died of lung cancer in 2003. In 1953, she married actor Jack Klugman; they had two sons, David and Adam.
Somers and Klugman separated in 1974, but the fact that Klugman did not marry his second wife right away fueled this misconception. The couple did actually divorce in August 1977, according to California court papers. Somers became a United States citizen late in life.
Later life and death
She appeared on CBS' Early Show as part of a Match Game reunion with Charles Nelson Reilly and Betty White (via videolink) in 2002. During that show's "Game Show Week" in the same year, she appeared with Reilly on Hollywood Squares. She appeared in an Evening with Brett Somers in 2003–04. She appeared on PBS' "Magic Moments – The Best of the '50s Pop" in 2004. Somers appeared on a two-minute segment hosted by Wink Martindale, Somers was a member of a faux quiz-show panel with Dr. Joyce Brothers and Rip Taylor. She appeared in The Real Match Game Story: Behind the Blank on GSN in 2006 and also hosted the Match Game DVD.
Somers denied reports that she had cancer in a 2002 interview, which she reiterated in later interviews. Somers had a husky voice that might have contributed to the mistaking that she had a throat infection. However, she was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. She died on September 15, 2007, at her Westport, Connecticut, age 83, after a period of remission. Adam, her younger brother, died of stomach and colon cancer.
Career
Somers, a member of Actors Studio from 1952, began her career in theater and appeared in many of her first television appearances in dramatic programs such as The Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre, Playhouse 90, and Robert Montgomery Presents.
Maybe Tuesday, she made her Broadway debut. After just five performances, the show was a flop and eventually closed. She appeared onstage in Happy Ending, The Seven Year Itch, and The Country Girl, the last opposite Klugman. In addition, she has a number of film credits, including A Rage to Live and Bus Riley's Back in Town.
Somers appeared on episodic primetime television shows including Love, American Style, The Defenders, Have Gun Will Travel, Ben Casey, CHiPs, Barney Miller, and The Fugitive. On the Mary Tyler Moore Show, she appeared as Aunt Rose in Rhoda Morgenstern's in the season four episode "Rhoda's Sister Gets Married."
Blanche, the ex wife of Oscar Madison (played by real-life spouse Jack Klugman) on ABC's The Odd Couple in the early 1970s, appeared on the ABC sitcom The Odd Couple in a recurring role. Gertie on Perry Mason's receptionist Gertie on The New Perry Mason, a short-lived revival of the classic television show, starring Monte Markham as Perry Mason. Siress Belloby appeared in Battlestar Galactica, a 1978 science-fiction series.
Somers was best known for her appearances as a panelist in the 1970s CBS game show Match Game. She sat in the lower-left panel role on her debut, but for the remainder of her tenure, she occupied the upper tier's center seat, most often next to Charles Nelson Reilly, who appeared as Brett and then moved to the top-right seat. She was clearly left-handed when she was always seen writing her answers with her left hand.
The show has a reputation for somewhat outlandish and scary dialogue, with some of it being referred to as a game played at a cocktail party. Somers was a well-known on-screen presence, sporting huge eyeglasses and various wigs. She played foil to Charles Nelson Reilly, Betty White, Scoey Mitchell, Fannie Flagg, and many others. Somers were often the object of Match Game questions, such as "You may or not believe in reincarnation," said Somers. Brett used to be a _______ in a previous life.
Somers were not intended to be on the celebrity jury at first. When spouse Jack Klugman arrived in the first week of the programme in 1973, he insisted that the producers bring her aboard. She served as a regular panelist on the rest of the show's nine-year network and syndicated run. Robin Quivers, a radio presenter, appeared on Match Game and In parodies of such game shows on The Howard Stern Show, she helped impersonate her. In the film Private Parts, Quivers' impersonation of Somers was on display.