Name: Vanessa Brown
Date of Birth: 24 March 1928 Had an I.Q. of 165. She was a regular on the radio show "Quiz Kids" for two years. Sister-in-law of director/producer Jay Sandrich. Daughter-in-law of director/producer Mark Sandrich. Played a minor role of a maid in the film "The Heiress" starring Oscar-winner Olivia de Havilland. Interestingly, she played the de Havilland part on radio a few years later. Directed "Meg," a prize-winning play, in Los Angeles in 1978. Wrote the play "Europa and the Bull" and a non-fiction work entitled "The Manpower Policies of Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz." There was also a novel and an unfinished autobiography. ... Daughter Cathy Sandrich (born 1961) became a top casting director, and son David (born in 1964) became a linguistic major and computer whiz. Lost her home in the 1989 Los Angeles earthquake. Her first husband, Dr. Robert Franklyn, was a popular Hollywood plastic surgeon. She apparently divorced him when she refused to go under the knife. Played the girl upstairs, the neighbor of Tom Ewell in the original Broadway production of "The Seven Year Itch," the part Marilyn Monroe later played with Ewell in the Billy Wilder film. Read more Vanessa Brown movies (actor)User Comments |
