Statuesque, smart Canadian-born Alexis Smith, with her blue/green eyes and a seductively husky voice, lent a touch of class to her leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s. After her family moved to California, Alexis grew into a precocious talent, performing ballet in public by the age of thirteen, dancing to 'Carmen' at the Hollywood Bowl. She later...
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
Movies
The Constant Nymph, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Gentleman Jim, Night and Day, Here Comes the Groom, The Young Philadelphians, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Any Number Can Play, Dive Bomber, Stallion Road, Once Is Not Enough, The Age of Innocence, Of Human Bondage, The Horn Blows at Midnight, T...
TV Shows
Hothouse
Star Sign
Gemini
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[About her first decade in films] In those days I was fresh out of school and delighted to be a movie star. Films were pretty much escapist entertainment, as opposed to the realism you see on screen today. Besides I was pretty much a utility girl at Warners. Anything Ann Sheridan or Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman didn't want to do, I sort of fell heir to. You know people frequently feel it was a shame Warner typecast me, but I don't believe that. I believe I typecast myself. I wasn't creative. Certain creative people - John Garfield, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland - didn't allow Warners to do that to them. So I don't blame the studio at all.
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When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
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There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.
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Fact
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Even after becoming an American citizen, she remained completely apolitical and never registered to vote.
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Smith lost the leading role in the Hollywood High School production of "Who Killed Cock Robin?" schoolmate Nanette Fabray, who was a year older.
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Dirk Bogarde referred to her as "Fun, professional, loyal, and courageous" and "The days are brighter for knowing her.".
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A star of Hollywood's Golden Age, neither she nor husband Craig Stevens were ever awarded a "star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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In her final years she and husband Craig Stevens lived in the West Hollywood house formerly owned by Loretta Young. The living room still had the big white doors that Young had used for her entrances on her TV series.
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Lifelong friend of Frances Rafferty. They met as dance students when they were kids.
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Signed by Warner Brothers after being seen in a college drama production, she was subsequently billed as "The Dynamite Girl" and "The Flame Girl" in promotional articles.
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Had her own nightclub act in the 1970s, which she took to Los Angeles and Canada.