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Phyllis Newman

Singer/actress

Born - 19 March 1933, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Died - 15 September 2019

Bright, lively, rosy-cheeked brunette singer, Broadway star (where she won a Tony) and later character actress. After a few early films - Picnic (1955), The Vagabond King (1956) and Let's Rock (1958) - stage work took over her career. Later film appearances include The Naked Witch (1966), Bye Bye Braverman (1968), To Find a Man (1972), A Secret Place (1977), Mannequin (1987), Saying Kaddish (1991), Only You (1994), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), A Price Above Rubies (1998), A Fish in the Bathtub (1998), It Had to Be You (2000), The Human Stain (2003) and the short Everyone's Depressed (2005). She married songwriter/playwright Adolph Green in 1960. He died in 2002. Newman survived a breast cancer scare in the 1980s.