Arlene Golonka

Arlene Golonka

Infobox actor
name = Arlene Golonka


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birthdate = January 23 1936
birthplace = Chicago, Illinois

Arlene Golonka (born January 23 1936) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Millie Swanson on the television comedies "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.", and often portrayed bubbly, eccentric blondes in supporting character roles on stage, film, and television.

Biography

Early years

Golonka was born in Chicago, Illinois. She began her acting career when she was 11 years old, and went professional in a summer-stock troupe while still in her teens. After studying at the prestigious Goodman Theatre in her native Chicago, she made her way to New York City at age 19 where she studied with Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, and Uta Hagen.

Career

She appeared in her first major production, "The Night Circus" with Ben Gazzara, at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut on November 17, 1958. After a week-long trial run, the play moved to Broadway on December 2, 1958 but closed after only seven performances. Despite that setback, she continued working in other plays such as "Take Me Along" with Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon and Robert Morse (448 performances from late 1958 to late 1960), Neil Simon's first Broadway play, "Come Blow Your Horn", which ran 677 performances from February 1961 until October 1962, and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", starring Kirk Douglas, from November 1963 until January 1964. Golonka appeared in two other Broadway plays from 1965 to 1966, and also took on supporting roles in films produced in the New York City area.

In 1967 she moved to Los Angeles to try her hand at television. She eventually became a familiar face to millions, having made numerous TV appearances including: "Get Smart","I Spy", "That Girl", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", " M*A*S*H", "All in the Family", "Cannon", "Maude",The Andy Griffith Show," Alice", "The Rockford Files, One Day at a Time", "Taxi", " Murder, She Wrote", "Valerie", and "Matlock". She was also a series regular on the animated cartoon "Speed Buggy", providing the voice of "Debbie", and had a recurring role on the short-lived TV show "Joe and Valerie".

In addition to acting on Broadway and TV, Golonka has also had supporting roles in some thirty films including, "Love with a Proper Stranger", "Penelope", "Hang 'Em High", " Airport '77", "The In-Laws" with Peter Falk, and "The End of Innocence".

In the later phase of her long career, she began teaching acting, which she has done for over ten years. Now semi-retired in Santa Monica, California, she takes occasional roles, most recently a 2005 appearance on the TV comedy series "The King of Queens".

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=86192 Arlene Golonka] at the Internet Broadway Database
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* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:27536 Arlene Golonka] at Allmovie
* [http://www.tvguide.com/detail/celebrity.aspx?tvobjectid=140634 Arlene Golonka] at TV Guide
* [http://www.what-a-character.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982804497 Arlene Golonka] at [http://www.what-a-character.com what-a-character.com]
* [http://www.tv-now.com/stars/golonka.html Upcoming appearances on American TV cable stations]
* [http://www.mayberryinthemidwest.com/mayberry/stars/golonka.html Biography and photo at mayberryinthemidwest.com]


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