Maureen Arthur, an actress greatest remembered for her efficiency as secretary Hedy La Rue in Broadway’s Learn how to Achieve Enterprise With out Actually Making an attempt and its 1967 display adaptation, died June 15 of pure causes in Beverly Hills. She was 88.
Arthur’s good friend, the actor Ilene Graff, introduced the information on Fb. “The world is rather less sparkly with out her,” wrote Graff, “however I’m so glad I obtained to be her good friend. Her reminiscence will certainly be a blessing.”
Though her signature function arrived within the early ’60s along with her scene-stealing efficiency on Broadway in How To Succeed…, she rapidly turned a well-known presence on tv. Bachelor Father, Perry Mason and I Spy had been a number of of her early credit earlier than Arthur moved extra persistently to comedy: By the mid-Nineteen Sixties, she was guesting on Get Good, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, The Monkees, The Flying Nun, Gomer Pyle: USMC, Love, American Model, Sanford and Son and one of many lighter segments of the horror anthology Night time Gallery.
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The New Dick Van Dyke Present, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, CPO Sharkey, Too Shut For Consolation, Freeway to Heaven and Matlock had been amongst her later TV credit. She was an everyday on the 1984 household enterprise drama Empire.
In movie, she performed reverse Don Knotts in 1969’s The Love God?, and Bob Hope that very same yr in Learn how to Commit Marriage. In 1971 she appeared reverse John Phillip Regulation in The Love Machine, primarily based on the novel by Jacqueline Susann.
Arthur’s first marriage, to musician George William Weidler, led to divorce, and he or she subsequently married The Andy Griffith Present producer Aaron Ruben in 1970. They had been married till his dying in 2010.
Along with her appearing profession, Arthur devoted a lot of her power to Selection – the Youngsters’s Charity of Southern California. Bear in mind Graff, “A tireless advocate for youngsters in want, particularly these with bodily, emotional and/or mental challenges, she helped increase numerous tens of millions of {dollars} for them.”
Arthur is survived by brothers Gerald and David, and prolonged household.
