Actress. She spent over 50 years as an actress on radio, television, movies, and every level of the theater from Broadway to regional and dinner theaters. Her first Broadway part was in Moss Hart's "Winged Victory." Other plays included "Lamp at Midnight", "Portrait of a Madonna" and "In White America." She toured with "Morning's at Seven", "Marat/Sade", "Anniversary Waltz", and "The Cat and the Canary." On television, she was a regular on such soap operas as "Secret Storm", "Love and Life", "Another World", and "Loving." She appeared in "I Spy", "Sgt. Bilko", "The Armstrong Theater", and "The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater", where she starred opposite Groucho Marx in "Time for Elizabeth," a play that she and Marx repeated at many theaters in the United States. Mrs. Eames appeared in such films as "The Big Heat", where she played the part of Actor Glenn Ford's sister;, "Roseland", "Diary of a Mad Housewife" and Disney's "Starlight-The musical." She continued to act in commercials and plays well into her 80's and in 1992, she was artist in residence at Iowa State University. She was also a member of the Screen Actores Guild and AFTRA. She passed away in a Joplin Missouri Nursing Home at the age of 96 years. She was cremated and her ashes were placed with her brother's in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
Actress. She spent over 50 years as an actress on radio, television, movies, and every level of the theater from Broadway to regional and dinner theaters. Her first Broadway part was in Moss Hart's "Winged Victory." Other plays included "Lamp at Midnight", "Portrait of a Madonna" and "In White America." She toured with "Morning's at Seven", "Marat/Sade", "Anniversary Waltz", and "The Cat and the Canary." On television, she was a regular on such soap operas as "Secret Storm", "Love and Life", "Another World", and "Loving." She appeared in "I Spy", "Sgt. Bilko", "The Armstrong Theater", and "The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater", where she starred opposite Groucho Marx in "Time for Elizabeth," a play that she and Marx repeated at many theaters in the United States. Mrs. Eames appeared in such films as "The Big Heat", where she played the part of Actor Glenn Ford's sister;, "Roseland", "Diary of a Mad Housewife" and Disney's "Starlight-The musical." She continued to act in commercials and plays well into her 80's and in 1992, she was artist in residence at Iowa State University. She was also a member of the Screen Actores Guild and AFTRA. She passed away in a Joplin Missouri Nursing Home at the age of 96 years. She was cremated and her ashes were placed with her brother's in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
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