Dena Dietrich
Dena Dietrich (December 4, 1928 – November 21, 2020) is an American actress. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She is known for playing Grace Peterson in Adam's Rib,[1] Dena Madison in Karen,[1]: 555 Estelle Milner in Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers,[1]: 818 Molly Gibbons in The Practice[1]: 850 Ethel Armbrewster in The Ropers,[1]: 910 and Pearl Newman in 13 East.[1]: 1072
Dietrich also starred in The Wild Party (1975), Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars (1979) and the Mel Brooks movie History of the World, Part I (1981). She appeared on Broadway in The Rimers of Eldritch, Here's Where I Belong, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.[2] Dietrich was the voice of the grandmother narrator on the dark ride attraction Horizons at Epcot in Walt Disney World from 1983 until 1999.[3]
Dietrich died of natural causes on November 21, 2020, at a health-care facility in Los Angeles. She was 91 years old.[4]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
- ↑ "Internet Broadway Database". Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ↑ "HB Studio Alumni". HB Studio. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ↑ Dena Dietrich, Actress Who Played Mother Nature in Margarine Commercials, Dies at 91
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