Alice Frost

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Alice Frost
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Born Alice Dorothy Margaret Frost
August 1, 1910
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Died January 6, 1998
Nationality American
Occupation Actress
Known for Starring as Pamela North in radio's Mr. and Mrs. North
Spouse(s) Robert C. Foulk
Willson M. Tuttle (1941 - ?)
Parent(s) Rev. and Mrs. John A. Frost

Alice Dorothy Margaret Frost (August 1, 1910[1] – January 6, 1998[2]) was an American actress on stage and in old-time radio. She "is best remembered for her portrayal of Pamela North on Mr. and Mrs. North" on radio for nearly 10 years.[3]

Early years

Alice Dorothy Margaret Frost[4] was born on August 1, 1910, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1] The youngest of four children,[5] she was a descendant of Sweden's King Carl XV.[6] Her father, Rev. John A. Frost,[7] was a minister in the Lutheran church in Mora, Minnesota, and her mother was the church's organist.[5] She attended high school in Mora and was active with the school's newspaper, glee club, drama society, and debate society. She enrolled at the University of Minnesota but had to drop out after her father's death. Later, she studied dramatics and voice for two years at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[6]

Frost also worked in a department store's credit department.[8]

Radio

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Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin as Mr. and Mrs. North (1950)

Frost debuted on radio at age 16 as a singer, participating in a duet with a friend on a Minneapolis station.[9] By 1933, she was a member of the cast of The Criminal Court.[10] In 1934, she was "one of the ghost voices during CBS-WABC's Forty-Five Minutes In Hollywood."[11]

An item in a 1939 newspaper noted Frost's "art of mimicry," saying "Alice is known to her friends as 'the girl of a hundred voices'"[12]—a talent which originated from her childhood, when she heard ministers who visited her home "when they returned from their missions in far-off places like Siam, India or Japan... [T]he missionaries delighted in teaching the little girl their various Hindustani, Javanese or Far Eastern dialects."[13] By 1938, she had already played "more than thirty different types of roles."[14] An item in a 1937 newspaper reported: "It's nothing unusual for her to appear in as many as eight network shows in a week, each one calling for a different role. In quick succession, she has been a comedienne, a tragedian, an ingenue, a mother, a daughter and a witch!"[15]

In the 1930s, Frost was "hostess, secretary, heckler and general all-around actress each Sunday" on Stoopnagle and Budd.[4] Late in that decade, she appeared regularly on Melody and Madness[16] and Undercover Squad.[17]

In 1941, Frost starred in Are You a Missing Heir?.[18] Her other roles as a regular cast member included those show in the table below.

Program Role
Big Sister Ruth Evans[19]
Bright Horizon Ruth Evans Wayne[20]
Camel Caravan "girl stooge"[21][22]
Home Sweet Home Lucy Kent[23]
Mighty Casey Casey's girl friend.[24]
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Miss Hazy[25]
Summer Town Hall Tonight "No. 1 heckler"[26]
The Second Mrs. Burton Marcia[27]
Woman of Courage Martha Jackson[19]

She also was heard in Song of the Stranger,[28] The Shadow, Grand Central Station,[29] Orson Welles Playhouse, What Would You Have Done,[30] On Broadway,[31] Famous Jury Trials,[32] Al Pearce and His Gang,[33] David Harum, Lorenzo Jones, Suspense,[1] Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories,[34] The Fat Man, Romance,[20] The Big Story, Les Misérables,[19] The Mercury Theatre on the Air,[35] Mr. District Attorney,[36] Johnny Presents,[37] The FBI in Peace and War,[38] Don Ameche's True Life Stories,[39] and Columbia Workshop.[40]

Television

Frost played Mama Holstrom on The Farmer's Daughter and Trina on Mama. She also had the role of Miss Bickle on the unsold pilot of the comedy His Model Wife.[41]

She was also seen on Gunsmoke,[42] Goodyear Theatre,[43] Bus Stop,[44] and The Alcoa Hour.[45]

Stage

Alice Frost and Orson Welles in Caesar (1938)

In 1928,[46] Frost appeared on stage in Chautauqua performances, playing Lorelei in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.[47] A year later, she was part of a stock theater company in Miami.[6]

In 1932, she appeared in It's the Law, a farce presented at the Ritz Theater in Scranton, Pennsylvania.[48]

She appeared on Broadway in Green Grow the Lilacs (1931), The Great Lover (1932), As Husbands Go (1933), It's a Wise Child (1933), the Mercury Theatre productions Caesar (1937–38) and The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938), A Roomful of Roses (1955),[49] and The Bad Seed (1955).[50]

In 1967, Frost co-starred with Jack Bailey in a four-week production of Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse.[35]

Film

Frost had a role in the independent film Damaged Love in 1930.[6] She worked for the Independent Eastern Pictures company.[51]

Recognition

Frost was named the winner in the Radio category among America's 13 Best Dressed Women for 1941. Winners were "selected in an annual poll of 100 leading designers for the Fashion Academy Awards."[52]

Personal life

Frost's first husband was Robert C. Foulk, an actor and scene designer.[6]

She married Willson M. Tuttle June 27, 1941,[53] in Bedford Village, New York[54] (Another source says Pound Ridge, New York.[55]). He was the director of Big Sister, in which she starred.[53]

Frost's hobby was collecting early Americana, especially antique American jewelry.[56]

Death

Frost died January 6, 1998, in Naples, Florida.[2]

References

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