LC control no. | no 98079093 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Dow, Ellen |
Variant(s) | Albertini, Ellen |
Birth date | 19131126 |
Death date | 20150504 |
Place of birth | Mount Carmel (Pa.) |
Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
Affiliation | Los Angeles Pierce College Los Angeles City College |
Profession or occupation | Actors Drama teachers Acting teachers |
Found in | Music from the motion picture The wedding singer [SR] p1998: insert (Ellen Dow) New York times (online), viewed May 6, 2015 (in obituary published May 5: Ellen Albertini Dow; b. Ellen Albertini, Nov. 26, 1913, Mount Carmel, Pa.; m. Eugene Dow, 1951 (d. 2004); d. Monday [May 4, 2015], Los Angeles, aged 101; found acting success in her 70s and portrayed feisty grandmothers in the hit film comedies Wedding crashers and The wedding singer; turned to film and television acting after retiring as a drama and acting teacher in the mid-1980s) |
Associated language | eng |