Allyn Ann McLerie
| Allyn Ann McLerie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 1, 1926 Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 1943–93 |
| Spouse(s) |
Adolph Green (m. 1945–53; divorced) George Gaynes (m. 1953–2016; his death) (2 children) |
| Children | Matt Gaynes (1959-1989) Iya Gaynes Falcone Brown |
Allyn Ann McLerie (born December 1, 1926) is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many Golden-Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins.
McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator. She moved with her family to the United States at age one. She studied dancing at a studio in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus.
She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then played Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award).
A life member of The Actors Studio, McLerie's other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour.
Perhaps some of McLerie's better-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954), The Cowboys (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Cinderella Liberty (1973), and TV movies such as Born Innocent (1974) and Death Scream (1975).
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