Donna Keath (died 1962) was an actress who worked in radio and on the stage.
Donna Keath | |
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| Died | 1962 |
| Occupation | Radio actor |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Neubauer and Jerre Mangione |
Although Keath was better known for her work in radio, she performed on stage in The Playboy of Newark at the Provincetown Playhouse in March 1943.[1] She also played the character of Irene Halenczik in the short-running Broadway production of Sophie in December 1944.[2] Keath gained fame playing the character of Lynne Dineen in the long running soap opera radio program Young Dr. Malone (1939 -1960).[2]
Keath was a founding member of Stage for Action (SFA), a “progressive theatre company” founded in December 1943. Keath became the chairman of SFA in April 1944.[2] According to Keath, the project was broadly educational: “We are willing," she said, "to use the talents by which we make a living to explain the significance behind the headlines.”[3]
In 1943, she co-authored Leave It As You Find It with Andrew Rosenthal. A few years later, the New York Times noted that Keath had co-authored an untitled piece with playwright Alden Nash, which was eventually registered for copyright in July 1946 as a three-act play entitled Soon the Morning.[2] Keath also was a national board member of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) and one of the New York delegates at the 1943 AFRA National Convention in Chicago.[2]
On October 24, 1945, Keath married psychiatrist Peter B. Neubauer.[4] On March 14, 1955, she married Jerre Mangione.[5]
Keath was blacklisted in television in June 1950, when her name appeared in the anti-communist publication Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Events". New York Times. March 14, 1943. p. X1. ProQuest 106506760.
- ^ a b c d e Dail, Chrystyna Marta (2010). Theatrical Militants: Stage for Action and Social Activist Performance, 1943-1953. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park. p. 70.
- ^ Meegan, Jean (April 20, 1944). "Actors, Writer Will Try To Shake Public Lethargy". Evening Huronite.
- ^ "Marriage record". New York Municipal Archives. Vol. 4. 1945.
- ^ "The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". The Philadelphia Inquirer. March 9, 1955. p. 31.
- ^ The American Business Consultants (1950). Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television. Self-published.
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