Katherine Glass
| Katherine Glass | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 11, 1947 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Spouse(s) | Ted Harris |
Katherine Glass (born January 11, 1947) is an American actress best remembered for her television work in the 1970s.
"It's grueling work. If you're in four scripts a week, you rehearse each one two hours the night before, then from 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. the next day and tape at 6. It's the closest thing to live performances there is on television, because you simply don't re-tape unless someone's tongue gets so twisted a dirty word comes out."
Glass was raised as a Roman Catholic in New Haven, Connecticut. Before appearing on television, Glass played in several stock company productions, including Red, White and Maddox and as Trina in Forty Carats. Furthermore, after graduating high school, she studied at the Yale School of Drama between 1964 and 1965.
In 1970, she debuted on television, playing the role of black-haired Kim Jordan on the short-lived day-time soap opera The Best of Everything. On the role, Glass commented: "Everything happened to me on that series. I played a very intense young woman and I lost my boyfriend to another woman. I even got stabbed ... it happened on a Friday and I was left for dead. I went home that weekend feeling very strange." The actress told the press in another interview she would get into her role too much, saying: "I was so much into the part, that I would be standing on the sidelines watching the actor playing my boyfriend kiss the other woman and I would actually get jealous. The actor was a nice guy but I never thought of him romantically off the set. But when I play a character for a while, I begin to think and feel like that character."
She was best remembered for appearing as Allison MacKenzie in Return to Peyton Place between 1972 and 1973. In an interview, she recalled being surprised to get the role, saying: "I don't know how they saw me as Allison in the first place because when they did auditions, my hair was brown." Despite rumours she got the role because of her looks, she told the press she was cast due to her experience in a soap opera. She insisted she did not analyze the acting of Mia Farrow, who originated the role of Allison, explaining she wanted to portray Allison in her own way. She played the role until 1973, and then asked to be released from her contract because she did not want to live in California any longer.Pamela Susan Shoop replaced her.
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