Clarice Blackburn

Clarice Blackburn (February 26, 1921 – August 5, 1995) was an American actress who portrayed three different characters on Dark Shadows. She was born in San Francisco, California but because her father was a salesman, Blackburn and her family moved around a great deal and made their home in Wisconsin, Arizona, Louisiana and Texas after California.

She earned a Bachelor's Degree in speech and drama at the Texas State College for Women, then made her professional debut in 1947 on Martha's Vineyard in The Circle of Chalk. An outstanding performance in an Equity Library Theater production of The Great Big Doorstep in 1950 led to a job as understudy for Eva Gabor in The Happy Time on Broadway. The Happy Time starred Shirley Booth, with whom Clarice would appear again on Broadway in The Desk Set in 1955. Clarice's other stage credits included a lead role in a 1953 revival of The Glass Harp, a critically acclaimed lead in American Gothic, also in 1953 and also performed at Circle in the Square; The Infernal Machine in 1958; Juno on Broadway in 1959; The Miracle Worker on Broadway in 1961; and The Queen and the Rebels and Good Day, both in 1965. During the 1965–66 season, Clarice won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance as Sara Calendar in The Exhaustion of Our Son's Love.

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