Whitney Blake
| Whitney Blake | |
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| Born |
Nancy Ann Whitney February 20, 1926 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Died | September 28, 2002 (aged 76) Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA |
| Cause of death | Esophageal cancer |
| Occupation | Actress, director, producer |
| Years active | 1956–1998 |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Tom Baxter (married 1944-1955) |
| Children |
From first marriage: |
(1) Tom Baxter (married 1944-1955)
(2) Jack X Fields (married 1957–1967)
From first marriage:
Richard Whitney Baxter
Brian Thomas Baxter
Whitney Blake (born Nancy Ann Whitney; February 20, 1926 – September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer. She is known for her four seasons as Dorothy Baxter, the mother, on the NBC early 1960s sitcom Hazel, and as co-creator and writer of the CBS mid-70s to mid-80s sitcom One Day at a Time. With her first husband she had three children, including actress Meredith Baxter.Whitney Blake also played Mrs Cartwright in the detective show 77 Sunset Strip. She played Mrs Cartwright who's husband supposedly died in a skin diving accident. She is trying to collect the insurance money but is investigated the PI Jeff Spencer who is working for the insurance company and feels he is alive.
Blake was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. She was the first child of Martha Mae Whitney (née Wilkerson) and Harry C. Whitney, a United States Secret Service agent who had guarded President Woodrow Wilson, his wife, and other political officials. Blake and her younger brother traveled around the country extensively, during which time she attended sixteen different schools. While attending Pasadena City College, she worked in small-theater groups in the Los Angeles area. In the summer she worked at her mother's ice-cream stand in McMinnville, Oregon.
Blake gained acting experience with five years' work in little theater productions, and in 1953 she was in several productions at the Pasadena Playhouse. After her appearance in an amateur Hollywood production of The Women caught the attention of agent Sid Gold, she appeared on a number of television series, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper, and on the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Her first television appearance was on NBC Matinee Theater.
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