Henrietta Valor
Henrietta Valor | |
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Born | Henrietta Embick April 28, 1935 |
Died | November 23, 2007 Studio City, California, USA | (aged 72)
Spouse(s) | Alfon Valor (1959–1970) John Towey (1982–2007) |
Henrietta Valor (April 28, 1935 – November 23, 2007)[1] was an actress and singer who starred on Broadway in, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”. Other Broadway credits include, “Half a Sixpence”, “Applause”, and “Annie”. Off-Broadway she played a leading role in “Fashion”, which she reprised twenty years later at The Pasadena Playhouse. She toured extensively for the USO in Europe, Africa, and the Far East including Viet Nam. Her regional theatre credits include: The Studio Arena Stage in Buffalo, The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, A.C.T. in Seattle, The Williamstown Theatre in Mass., PAF Playhouse in Huntington, Long Island, Playwrights Horizons in New York, The Boston Shakespeare Company, and three seasons in the acting company of The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. She studied opera on scholarship with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara and acting with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University where she received her Bachelor of Music degree. She was a runner-up in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in New York City. Her last acting role was Miss Framer in, “Lettice and Lovage” at The Pasadena Playhouse.
Valor was born in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on April 28, 1935.[1] She earned her bachelor's degree in music and acting at Northwestern University in 1957.[1] Additionally, she studied opera at the Music Academy of the West, which is located in Santa Barbara, California, with Lotte Lehmann in the late 1950s.[1] She moved to Los Angeles in 1990.[1]
Henrietta Valor died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on November 23, 2007.[1]
Theatre[]
Valor starred on Broadway in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Half a Sixpence, Applause and Annie.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Henrietta Valor; Singer-actress found success on Broadway". Los Angeles Times. 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2007-12-06.[dead link]
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- 1935 births
- American musical theatre actresses
- American stage actresses
- Actresses from Pennsylvania
- Northwestern University alumni
- Neurological disease deaths in California
- Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
- 2007 deaths
- 20th-century American singers
- 20th-century American women singers