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Phyllis Barbara Newman of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis Barbara Newman.
Phyllis May Newman of Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis May Newman.
Phyllis J Newman of Warwick, Kent County, RI was born on November 14, 1932, and died at age 76 years old on April 1, 2009.
Phyllis Newman
Born March 19, 1933
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Died September 15, 2019 (aged 86)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation Actress, singer
Years active 1952–2019
Spouse(s) Adolph Green
(m. 1960; died 2002)
Children Adam Green Amanda Green
Phyllis Newman (March 19, 1933 – September 15, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the Broadway-theatre production of Subways Are for Sleeping and was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award.
Early life and education
Newman was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Rachael, a fortune teller, and Sigmund Newman, a handwriting analyst, both boardwalk workers. Her parents were Eastern European Jewish immigrants. She attended Lincoln High School where she was voted "Future Hollywood Star."
Broadway
Newman made her Broadway debut in Wish You Were Here in 1952. Additional theater credits include Bells Are Ringing, Pleasures and Palaces, The Apple Tree, On the Town, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Awake and Sing!, Broadway Bound, and Subways Are for Sleeping, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, beating out Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and received a second Tony Award nomination, for Broadway Bound.
In June 1979 Newman and Arthur Laurents collaborated on the one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West. Produced by Fritz Holt, it featured songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, John Kander, Martin Charnin, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Edward Kleban, Fred Ebb, Sheldon Harnick, Peter Allen, Barry Manilow, Carole Bayer Sager, and Stephen Sondheim, among others. The show ran for 86 performances at the 22 Steps Theatre in New York City.[4]
Television
An early television role for Newman was in a 1959 episode of Beverly Garland's crime drama Decoy.
In 1960 she was cast as Doris Hudson on the CBS summer replacement series Diagnosis: Unknown, with Patrick O'Neal as the pathologist Dr. Daniel Coffee and Martin Huston as the handyman named Link.
Newman became a major television celebrity of the 1960s and 1970s, a frequent panelist on the top-rated network game shows What's My Line?, Match Game and To Tell the Truth and a perennial guest of Johnny Carson's on NBC's The Tonight Show. She portrayed Melissa's mother Elaine on the television series Thirtysomething.
She created the role of Renée Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and was a regular on the prime time series 100 Centre Street and the NBC satirical series That Was The Week That Was. Other television credits include The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Burke's Law, ABC Stage 67, Murder, She Wrote, The Wild Wild West. Newman starred in the short-lived comedy about a couple living in an Arizona retirement community, Coming of Age, opposite veteran actors Paul Dooley, Glynis Johns and Alan Young.
Film
On screen, Newman appeared in Picnic (1955), Let's Rock (1958), Bye Bye Braverman (1968), To Find a Man (1972), Mannequin (1987), Only You (1994), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), A Price Above Rubies (1998) and The Human Stain (2003).
Music
In addition to her appearances on original cast recordings, Newman recorded an album of contemporary songs, Those Were the Days, for Sire Records in 1968. In England, the album was released as Phyllis Newman's World of Music on London Records.
The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative
In 1995 Newman founded The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of the Actors Fund of America. Since then she hosted the annual Nothing Like a Dame galas, which have raised more than US $3.5 million and served 2,500 women in the entertainment industry.
In 2009 Newman received the first Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, for her work with the Health Initiative. This award recognizes "an individual from the theatre community for [his or her] humanitarian work."
Memoir
Her memoir Just in Time – Notes from My Life (1988; Simon & Schuster; ISBN 978-0-671-61880-3), relates her career, life with her husband, lyricist and playwright Adolph Green, and her bout with cancer.
Personal life and death
Newman was married to lyricist and playwright Adolph Green from 1960 until his death in 2002. She was the mother of journalist Adam Green and singer-songwriter Amanda Green. Newman died on September 15, 2019 at the age of 86 from complications of a lung disorder.
Phyllis G Newman of TX was born circa 1958. Phyllis Newman was married to Marcus A. Newman on July 3, 1982 in Nueces County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis G. (Adams) Newman.
Phyllis J Newman of TX was born circa 1950. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis J. (Crouch) Newman.
Phyllis Newman was born circa 1930, and died at age 9 years old on November 22, 1940. Phyllis Newman was buried at Birmingham County Borough in Civilian War Dead. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis Newman.
Phyllis I Newman of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania United States was born circa 1915. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis I Newman.
Phyllis Claudia Newman of Sandhurst Australia was born in 1910, and died at age 69 years old in 1979 in Sandhurst.
Phyllis Agnes Newman of Fitzroy Australia was born in 1916, and died at age 52 years old in 1968 in Fitzroy.
Phyllis Tallack Newman of Dnong Australia was born in 1910, and died at age 38 years old in 1948 in Dnong.
Phyllis Newman of Placerville, El Dorado County, CA was born on December 11, 1930, and died at age 73 years old on November 5, 2004.
Phyllis C Newman of West Hills, Los Angeles County, CA was born on February 18, 1915, and died at age 86 years old on September 19, 2001.
Phyllis K Newman of San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA was born on January 29, 1924, and died at age 67 years old on January 28, 1992.
Phyllis Newman of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah was born on August 24, 1894, and died at age 89 years old in August 1983.
Phyllis Newman of Fruita, Mesa County, Colorado was born on June 11, 1939, and died at age 41 years old in March 1981.
Phyllis Newman of Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado was born on October 3, 1915, and died at age 71 years old in February 1987.
Phyllis Newman of Columbus, Platte County, Nebraska was born on October 8, 1932, and died at age 74 years old on June 3, 2007.
Phyllis Valene Newman of Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida was born on February 14, 1931, and died at age 78 years old on March 7, 2009.
Phyllis Newman of Hector, Renville County, MN was born on May 2, 1916, and died at age 73 years old on September 30, 1989.
Phyllis S Newman was born on January 29, 1911, and died at age 81 years old on February 19, 1992. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Phyllis S Newman.
Phyllis B Newman of Atlanta, Fulton County, GA was born on September 8, 1925, and died at age 74 years old on September 8, 1999.
Phyllis B Newman of Knoxville, Knox County, TN was born on August 2, 1941, and died at age 60 years old on June 28, 2002.
Phyllis A Newman of Beech Creek, Muhlenberg County, KY was born on July 7, 1924, and died at age 80 years old on August 9, 2004.
Phyllis H Newman of Markesan, Green Lake County, WI was born on August 7, 1921, and died at age 83 years old on September 19, 2004.
Phyllis E Newman of Elkhorn, Walworth County, WI was born on July 10, 1908, and died at age 79 years old on June 7, 1988.
Phyllis L Newman of Plainwell, Allegan County, MI was born on September 5, 1903, and died at age 85 years old on January 26, 1989.
Phyllis Newman of Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan was born on September 16, 1930, and died at age 55 years old in September 1985.
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