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Maureen Louise Arthur (born April 15, 1934, San Jose, California) is an American film, television, and stage actress. ==Life and career== Arthur appeared in numerous movies and television programs from the late 1950s through the early 1990s as well as on Broadway. On television she appeared in such programs as ''Bourbon Street Beat'', ''The Red Skelton Hour'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Branded'', ''I Spy'', ''The Monkees'', ''The Flying Nun'', ''Love, American Style'', ''The New Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', ''Sanford and Son'', ''Laverne & Shirley'', ''Mork & Mindy'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', and ''Matlock''. In 1967, in arguably her most prominent single movie role, she portrayed Hedy LaRue in the film version of the Broadway hit ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''.〔 Her catch phrase, "OK Charlie." In 1969, she co-starred with Don Knotts in the screwball comedy ''The Love God?'' and with Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason and Jane Wyman in the romantic comedy ''How to Commit Marriage''. In the mid-1960s she recorded a pop tune on the Carlton record label titled "Don't Make The Angels Cry" and "What Does He Do With Her". A second single, "Don't Leave Me," was unreleased, though an acetate recording exists. In New York, she studied singing and studying drama with Wynn Handman of the Neighborhood Playhouse. She made frequent appearances on ''The Steve Allen Show'' and on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' before moving on to play the Rivera Hotel in Las Vegas with the Latin Quarter Review. She traveled on to Los Angeles to start in her motion pictures, beginning with ''Hot Rod Gang'', ''Thunder Alley'' and ''Killers Three''.〔 While in Los Angeles, she auditioned for the national cast of ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' and landed the part of Hedy La Rue. In New York for rehearsals, she toured the country for two years and was in the Broadway production for one year before returning to Los Angeles for another audition, this time for the movie. After several more movies, she headed back again to Broadway for ''Something Different'', a play written and directed by Carl Reiner, and starring Bob Dishy and Linda Lavin. When that play closed, she returned to Los Angeles to marry producer/creator Aaron Ruben. Her performance as Miss Adelaide in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera revival of ''Guys and Dolls'' brought her a Drama Critics' Best Performance Award. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maureen Arthur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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