One source states that it was Imogene who told Leonard Sillman about Ghostley, while another credits Murray Grand.
The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by Imogene Coca. He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne. George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood. Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week. Alice attended school in Siloam Springs through the sixth grade, and then the family moved to Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma where Alice finished growing up and graduated from high school.Īfterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City. Alice's mother Edna never remarried, dying in 1965, 32 years later, in Oklahoma as "Edna Ghostley". Wikipedia reports Alice's middle name as "Margaret", but I don't know on what authority.īy 1930, the family had moved to Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas where her father Harry was buried in 1933 having died at a hospital in Missouri that year. Her father was at that time, a telegrapher at this "whistle stop", and shared quarters in the building. Alice Ghostley was born in a train station in a place called "Eve" in Vernon County, Missouri as the second child of Harry F Ghostley and his wife Edna M Rooney.
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