{{Short description|American actress (1925–2011)}} {{Infobox person | image = Phyllis_Love.jpg | caption = Still from ''Friendly Persuasion'' (1956) | birth_name = Phyllis Ann Love | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|12|21|mf=y}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Des Moines, Iowa}}, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|10|30|1925|12|21|mf=y}} | death_place = {{nowrap|Menifee, California}}, U.S. | occupation = Stage, television actress | years_active = 1948–1975 | parents = Jack Love<br>Lois Love | spouse = James Vincent McGee <br>(m.1948–1978; divorced) <br>Alan Paul Gooding <br>(m.1983–2011; her death)}}
'''Phyllis Ann Love'''{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} (December 21, 1925 – October 30, 2011) was an American theater and television actress.<ref>{{cite news|title=PASSINGS: Harry Lawenda, Axel Axgil, Phyllis Love|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20111102-story.html|access-date=17 August 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817194032/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/02/local/la-me-passings-20111102|archive-date=17 August 2017|url-status=live|location=California, Los Angeles}}</ref>
==Early years== Love was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her parents were Jack Love, who owned a food market, and Lois Love, who owned a cafe prior to marriage. Her schooling came at Perkins Elementary School, Callanan Junior High School, and Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines.<ref name="dc">{{cite web|title=Phyllis Love|url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/phyllis-love|website=DATACENTRAL|publisher=Des Moines Register|access-date=17 August 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170817040203/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/phyllis-love|archive-date=17 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Beginning in 1948, she attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh for an unknown length of time.<ref name=v/>
==Career== After moving to New York, Love joined the recently formed Actors Studio. Her debut on television came in the studio's ''Actors Studio'' series;<ref name=v>: [https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045978?refcatid=15&printerfriendly=true "Actress Phyllis Love dies: Appeared on Broadway, in Wyler's 'Friendly Persuasion',"] ''Variety'' (november 10, 2001). "Love attended what became Carnegie Mellon U. and studied at the Actors Studio in New York, beginning in 1948... The actress picked up most of her credits, however, on television, appearing on numerous anthology shows beginning with 'Actors Studio" in 1949."'</ref> her Broadway and big screen bows, the year after that, as, respectively, Julie Harris's understudy in the stage adaptation of ''The Member of the Wedding'', and, an uncredited performer in the film ''So Young So Bad''.<ref>: [https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045978?refcatid=15&printerfriendly=true "Actress Phyllis Love dies: Appeared on Broadway, in Wyler's 'Friendly Persuasion',"] ''Variety'' (November 10, 2011). "She made her bigscreen [debut] in an uncredited role in 1950's 'So Young So Bad.'"</ref>
Throughout the 1950s she acted in Broadway productions and the occasional film. Her Broadway credits include ''A Distant Bell'' (1959), ''Flowering Cherry'' (1959), ''The Egghead'' (1957), ''The Rose Tattoo'' (1950), and ''The Country Girl'' (1950).<ref>{{cite web|title=("Phyllis Love" search results)|url=http://www.playbill.com/searchpage/search?shows=on&people=on&theatres=on&q=Phyllis+Love&qasset=00000150-ac83-d16d-a550-ecbff31b0000|website=Playbill Vault|publisher=Playbill|access-date=17 August 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170817031521/http://www.playbill.com/searchpage/search?shows=on&people=on&theatres=on&q=Phyllis+Love&qasset=00000150-ac83-d16d-a550-ecbff31b0000|archive-date=17 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1951 for her role in ''The Rose Tattoo.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/EquityAwards/derwent_award.asp|title=The Clarence Derwent Award|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817032542/http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/EquityAwards/derwent_award.asp|archive-date=17 August 2017|url-status=|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref> That role also brought her a Donaldson Award for Best Supporting Performance (Actress) for 1950–1951.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Winners for the 8th Annual Donaldson Awards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fh8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Phyllis+Love%22+actress&pg=PA43|access-date=17 August 2017|magazine=Billboard|date=July 28, 1951|page=43}}</ref>
She played Mattie Birdwell in the film ''Friendly Persuasion'' (1956), and Dick Clark's pregnant wife in ''The Young Doctors'' (1961). On television, she appeared principally in guest roles from 1950 until her retirement in the early 1970s. Among her roles were two guest appearances on ''Perry Mason'', both times as the defendant, as Ellen Carter in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Bogus Books", and the part of Minerva Doubleday in the 1964 episode "The Case of the Wooden Nickels". In 1961 she played Dot the waitress in season 4 episode 17 and 18 of ''Have Gun - Will Travel'', and in 1962 she played Mrs. Lucas in the 3rd-season episode "Four O'Clock" in ''The Twilight Zone''. In 1964 she played Jennifer May in the episode "Doctor's Wife" in the TV series ''Gunsmoke''. In 1965 she played Lieutenant Jenkins in Season 1, Episode 19 "Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson" in the TV series ''12 O'Clock High''.
For 15 years,<ref name=dc/> Love was on the faculty at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, teaching drama and English.<ref name=p>{{cite web|title=Broadway Actress Phyllis Love Dies at 85|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/broadway-actress-phyllis-love-dies-at-85-com-184494|website=Playbill|access-date=17 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817034048/http://www.playbill.com/article/broadway-actress-phyllis-love-dies-at-85-com-184494|archive-date=17 August 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life== Love and James Vincent McGee were married for 30 years, from 1948 until they divorced in 1978. On January 22, 1983, Love married Alan Paul Gooding. They remained married until her death in 2011.<ref name=p/>
==Death== On October 30, 2011, Love died at her home in Menifee, California, at age 85.<ref name="opa">{{cite book|last1=Lentz|first1=Harris M. III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2011|date=2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786469949|page=210|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5X_GCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Phyllis+Love%22+actress&pg=PA210|access-date=17 August 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1956|| ''So Young So Bad'' || Delinquent Girl || Uncredited |- |1956|| ''Friendly Persuasion'' || Mattie Birdwell || |- |1960||''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''|| Sue || Season 5 Episode 18: "Backward, Turn Backward" |- |1961|| ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' || Dot || "A Quiet Night in Town" |- |1961|| ''Gunsmoke'' || Beth || "Bless Me Till I Die" |- |1961|| ''The Young Doctors'' || Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander || |- |1962||''Going My Way''|| Sister Mary Matthews || two episodes |- |1962||''Perry Mason''|| Ellen Carter || "The Case of the Bogus Books" |- |1962||''The Untouchables''|| Ginnie Littlesmith || "The Ginnie Littlesmith Story" |- |1964||''The Outer Limits''|| Andrea Holm || "A Feasibility Study" |- |1964|| ''Gunsmoke'' || Jennifer May || "Doctor's Wife" |- |1964||''Perry Mason''|| Minerva Doubleday || "The Case of the Wooden Nickels" |- |1967||''The FBI''|| two characters || three episodes |}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0522401}} * {{IBDB name}} * {{iobdb name|32093}} *[https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;type=simple;rgn=Entire%20Finding%20Aid;q1=Phyllis%20Love;view=reslist;subview=detail;sort=freq;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a Phyllis Love] at the University of Wisconsin's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223020/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a;focusrgn=summaryinfo;cc=wiarchives;byte=50771135 Actors Studio audio collection]
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