Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth Allen was an American actress and singer who worked in theater, television and film for roughly 40 years, from the mid-1950s into the mid-1990s. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she began as a Ford Agency high-fashion model and trained with the Helen Hayes Repertory Group. On television she played the Away We Go girl on The Jackie Gleason Show, had guest roles on shows including The Fugitive and Kojak, and was a regular on Bracken's World, The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey and Texas. Her films included John Ford's Donovan's Reef (1963), which brought her a second-place Golden Laurel as Top New Female Personality, and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), also directed by Ford. On Broadway she earned Tony nominations for The Gay Life in 1962 and Do I Hear a Waltz? in 1965, and in the 1980s she played Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street. She retired in 1996.