Known for:	On the Town, The Thrill of It All, The Glass Bottom Boat
Birth name:	Alicia Pearce
Birthday:	16 October 1917, New York, New York, USA

She won a posthumous comedy support Emmy for her side-splitting work as neighborhood snoop Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched. Her award was accepted by her husband, Paul Davis. Ironically, only two years later, Marion Lorne, as delightfully dithery Aunt Clara, would also win a posthumous Emmy in the very same acting category. Elizabeth Montgomery accepted for Ms. Lorne. Educated in schools in Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, etc.), she returned to the States at age 15 and eventually attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating in 1940. First husband, composer John Rox, was a songwriter and stage and film composer who wrote such hits as "It's a Big, Wide, Wonderful World." They put together Alice's nightclub acts for such venues as the Blue Angel in New York during the 40s. Star Elizabeth Montgomery and husband/director William Asher helped Alice's husband after her death by giving him a job as a director on the "Bewitched" series. Davis, once a Broadway director, had given up his career to nurse Alice through her illness. Met second husband Paul Davis in 1957 when she was appearing in the Broadway musical "Bells Are Ringing" starring Judy Holliday. Alice had replaced Jean Stapleton in the show and Paul was the stage manager. In May of 1964 Alice had surgery and was already diagnosed with terminal cancer by the time she began the "Bewitched" sitcom in September of that year. She managed to keep it a secret and passed away 1 1/2 years into the series. The ABC network broke into the prime-time Bewitched broadcast to announce her death.

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