Happy 93rd Birthday, Ann Blyth!

Happy 93rd Birthday to the wonderful Ann Blyth!

For a bit of a departure, here's an episode of Burke's Law from 1964 now on YouTube. From my book Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.:

"She made two appearances on the whimsical detective series Burke’s Law starring Gene Barry. Both are fun and utterly goofy sides of sweet little Ann Blyth that should make any future critic dispense with typecasting her in their reviews.

In the “Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?” episode broadcast March 13, 1964, which satirizes the world of modern art and pokes fun at avant garde artists—one such artist has been murdered—Ann plays another beatnik style artist whose specialty is spray painting her live models with different colors and having them roll around on a canvas spread on the floor. She is a suspect in the murder, and replies to the investigator, “Hey, man, can’t you see I’m busy working here?...you wouldn’t have buzzed Toulouse-Lautrec when he was fast sketching the lovely Jane Avril?” She grins at the detective, “Your perceptivity just knocks me out, soldier.”

We learn she is a junkie, hooked on previously prescribed painkillers. To keep herself supplied, she forges doctors’ signatures on prescription cards. The victim knew this and was blackmailing her. However, Ann is not the only suspect, and collection of similar kooks includes Aldo Ray as a dog groomer, Macdonald Carey, Jack Weston, and Tab Hunter all as free-spirited weirdoes who could have murdered the dead man. Gene Barry, star of the show, will tell us who did it after the last commercial."

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For more on Ann Blyth's career on stage and screen, television and radio, have a look at my book on Ann's career -- Ann Blyth: Actress. Singer. Star.

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