Andrea King
| Andrea King | |
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King, 1946
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| Born |
Georgette André Barry February 1, 1919 Paris, France |
| Died | April 22, 2003 (aged 84) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles California, USA |
| Resting place | Zion Episcopal Churchyard in Charles Town, West Virginia |
| Years active | 1940–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Nat Willis (married 1940–1970, his death) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | http://www.andreaking.com/index.html |
Andrea King (February 1, 1919 – April 22, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress, sometimes billed as Georgette McKee.
Andrea King was born Georgette André Barry in Paris, France in 1919 to American Lovinia Belle Hart. At two months of age, she moved with her mother to the United States. She lived with her grandmother in Cleveland, Ohio, and Palm Beach, Florida, for the first four years of her life while her mother attended Columbia University in New York City. When her mother married Douglas McKee, King went to live with them in Forest Hills, Queens.
As a teenager King attended the progressive Edgewood School in Greenwich, Connecticut, a northern campus of Marietta Johnson's Organic School of Education. Playing Juliet in a school production when she was 14, she was asked to audition for a role in a Lee Shubert play, which led to other stage work.
Andrea King appeared in Broadway plays and other theater work, most notably as Mary Skinner in Life with Father. Her film debut was in a docudrama, The March of Time's first feature-length film titled The Ramparts We Watch (1940). In 1944, she signed with Warner Bros. and changed her stage name to King (some of her early movies have her credited as "Georgette McKee", her stepfather's name). King appeared uncredited in the Bette Davis film Mr. Skeffington (1944), and went on to do another ten movies in the next three years. She co-starred in a 1946 horror film, The Beast with Five Fingers, and a 1947 drama, The Man I Love, both opposite Robert Alda.
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