
Known for
Acting
Born
November 15, 1919
Birthplace
Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA
Died
October 9, 2007 (aged 87)
Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. Bruce began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band, and later sang with Ben Bernie's orchestra in 1940-1941. Bruce made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase, with songs by Irving Berlin, who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 193...
1996
as Old One (voice)
1996
1994
1993
1991
1989
1987
as Joy Page
1987
1987
1985
1985
1980
as Mrs. Sloan
1979
1978
1976
1969
as (voice)
1962
1948
1948
1942
as Joan Barry
1941
as Linda Joyce
1941
as Julie Morgan
1937
as Singer