Tracey Roberts (born Blanche Goldstone, – February 8, 2002)
was an American actress who became an acting coach. Her name was sometimes seen as Tracy Roberts.
Early years
Roberts was born in
Little Falls, New York
Little Falls is a city in Herkimer County, New York. The population was 4,946 at the time of the 2010 census, which is the second-smallest city population in the state, ahead of only the city of Sherrill. The city is built on both sides of the ...
.
She attended
Cornell University and the
University of Michigan before moving to New York City to study at the
Actors Studio
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. She also worked as a model for illustrators. Two of her siblings went on to work in entertainment,
Ann Marcus
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She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the ''New York Daily News'' and ''Life'', where she worked with fa ...
as a TV writer and producer and Raymond Goldstone as a writer for TV and films.
Career
Roberts had the female lead in the film ''
Fort Defiance'' (1951)
and acted in ''Anything Goes'', ''Actors in Sin'' (1952) and ''Hollywood or Bust'' (1956). On stage, she appeared in ''It's Been Wonderful'', ''Paradise Lost'', ''Winter Kill'',
''Hedda Gabler'', ''Orpheus Descending'', ''The Seagull'', and ''The Women''.
After Roberts's acting opportunities began to diminish, she took a friend's advice and began to teach acting. She was artistic director and coach at the Tracy Roberts Actors Studio.
Her production of ''Shadowinds'' won a
Drama-Logue Award
The Drama-Logue Award was an American theater award established in 1977, given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a weekly west-coast theater trade publication. Winners were selected by the publication's theater critics, and would recei ...
. Other works that she produced and/or directed included ''The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit'' and ''An Evening With Clifford Odets''. She also directed ''The Art of Dining'' at the Tracy Roberts Theatre in West Hollywood, with her sister as executive producer.''
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On television, Roberts produced "A Woman's Place" (written by her sister) on ''Desilu Playhouse'' in 1960.
Personal life and death
Roberts was married to Jerry Adelman.
On February 8, 2002, she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 87.
Partial filmography
*''
Sideshow'' (1950)
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Fort Defiance'' (1951)
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On Dangerous Ground'' (1952)
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Murder Is My Beat'' (1955)
[
*'']Edge of Hell
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'' (1956)[
*'' The Wayward Girl'' (1957)]Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
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...
'' (1990)Off and Running
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Plot
Lauper stars as a mermaid-themed lounge singer who gets involved with a caring but troubled ...
'' (1990)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Tracey
Year of birth uncertain
1910s births
2002 deaths
20th-century American actresses
American film actresses
American stage actresses
University of Michigan alumni