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Shirley Bonne (born May 22, 1934) is a former actress who portrayed Eileen Sherwood in the CBS television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a Play , a musical theatre, two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
, which aired during the 1960-1961 season. Bonne played an aspiring actress in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 sharing an apartment
Apartment

An apartment is a self-contained House unit that occupies only part of a Apartment building. Apartments may be owned or rented .A common alternative term for apartment is flat....
 with her older sister, Ruth Sherwood, a magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 writer, played by Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist, best known for her trademark performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Company , her 2001 one-woman show #Return to stage, and most recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother List of recurring characters on 30 Rock on NBC's 30 Rock....
 (born 1926). Among the episodes in which Bonne had a leading role are "The Protectors", "Aunt Harriet's Way" (with Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
), and "Eileen's Big Chance".






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Shirley Bonne (born May 22, 1934) is a former actress who portrayed Eileen Sherwood in the CBS television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a Play , a musical theatre, two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
, which aired during the 1960-1961 season. Bonne played an aspiring actress in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 sharing an apartment
Apartment

An apartment is a self-contained House unit that occupies only part of a Apartment building. Apartments may be owned or rented .A common alternative term for apartment is flat....
 with her older sister, Ruth Sherwood, a magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 writer, played by Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist, best known for her trademark performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Company , her 2001 one-woman show #Return to stage, and most recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother List of recurring characters on 30 Rock on NBC's 30 Rock....
 (born 1926). Among the episodes in which Bonne had a leading role are "The Protectors", "Aunt Harriet's Way" (with Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
), and "Eileen's Big Chance". Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye

Stubby Kaye was an United States comic actor. He was born Bernard Kotzin in New York City on West 114th Street in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan to first generation Jewish-Americans originally from Russia and Austria....
 appeared as Eileen's agent, Marty; Jack Weston
Jack Weston

Jack Weston was an United States film, stage, and television actor.Weston usually played comic roles in films such as Cactus Flower and Please Don't Eat the Daisies , but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a bl...
, as reporter Chick Adams; Raymond Bailey
Raymond Bailey

Raymond Thomas Bailey was an United States actor on the Broadway theatre, film, and television. He is best-known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the long-running television television program The Beverly Hillbillies....
, as D.X. Beaumont, Ruth's employer, and Rose Marie
Rose Marie

Rose Marie is an American actress who also had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, theater and television....
, as Bertha, a friends of the Sherwoods. Rose Marie thereafter joined CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an United States television situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 and ran until June 1, 1966....
 in the role of Sallie Rogers. My Sister Eileen was broadcast on Wednesday
Wednesday

Wednesday is a day of the week in the Gregorian calendar. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. This day is between Tuesday and Thursday....
s opposite the popular Hawaiian Eye
Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye is an United States television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network....
 detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 series on ABC.

Born as Shirley Mae Tanner in Inglewood
Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908....
 in Los Angeles County, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, Bonne was already married and caring for two small children in San Clemente
San Clemente, California

San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California, California, United States. As of 2005, the city population was 65,900. Located six miles south of San Juan Capistrano, California at the southern tip of the county, it is roughly equidistant from San Diego, California and Los Angeles, California....
 by the time she was twenty-one. Late in 1955, the blonde Bonne entered a cover girl contest for the defunct Pageant
Pageant (magazine)

Pageant was a 20th-century monthly magazine, first published in the United States by Hillman Periodicals in November 1944. With its digest-size format, it became Coronet magazine's leading competition, although it aimed for comparison to Reader's Digest....
 magazine and was twice chosen for the cover of the publication. In February 1956, she appeared on Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
's NBC sitcom The People's Choice
The People's Choice (TV series)

The People's Choice was a 1955-1958 half-hour black-and-white United States television Situation comedy airing on National Broadcasting Company....
. By the latter 1950s
1950s

The 1950s decade was the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive. The Fifties in the developed western world are generally considered social conservative and highly Consumerism in nature....
, she was modeling in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. After a divorce
Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the marital status of being single....
 from a first husband, she appeared publicly with Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 but in 1958 married Ronald Herbert Freemond (born 1930). In 1960, she appeared at Hal Roach
Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an United States film producer and television producer from the 1910s to the 1990s....
 Studios to promote the unveiling of Chevrolet
Chevrolet

Chevrolet is a brand of automobile, produced by General Motors . It is the top selling GM marque, with "Chevrolet" or "Chevy" being at times synonymous with GM....
's new Corvair
Corvair

Corvair may refer to*Chevrolet Corvair, a car*Corvair Monza GT , a car*The Caledonia Corvairs, an ice hockey team*"The Sky Corvair", a band led by Tim Kinsella...
 automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
, thereafter a target of consumer activist Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader is an American attorney at law, author, lecturer, political activism, and perennial candidate for presidency as an independent candidate for President of the United States in United States presidential election, 2004 and United States presidential election, 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000....
 in the book Unsafe at Any Speed
Unsafe at Any Speed

Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety....
. By the time she was cast for My Sister Eileen, she had appeared on the covers of some four hundred magazines. In 1962, Bonne and Freemond had a daughter, Jayne. In October 1973, she divorced Freemond, who remarried; ten years later, she married Ronald Dean Gilbreath (born 1939) in San Francisco
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
.

After My Sister Eileen, Bonne had no credited role until 1966, when she played "Ruth" in the episode "Shore Leave
Shore leave

Shore leave is the leave that professional sailors get to spend on dry land. It is culturally infamous for its excess.Books, films, and songs about sailors on shore leave include a song with the same name by Tom Waits' from the album Swordfishtrombones, Jean Genet's 1953 novel, Querelle de Brest; Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1949 mus...
" of William Shatner
William Shatner

William Alan Shatner is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe- and Saturn Award-winning actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T....
's NBC science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 series Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
. In 1967, she appeared as Sally Cutler in the episode "Justice" of NBC's longest-running western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 Bonanza
Bonanza

Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
. That same year, she appeared in two sitcoms, Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas

Margaret Julia ?Marlo? Thomas Donahue is an United States actor, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s....
's That Girl
That Girl

That Girl is an United States television situation comedy that ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1966 to 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring actor, who had moved from her hometown of Brewster, New York to make it big in New York City....
 on ABC and Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is an American film and television actor and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie....
's I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
 on NBC. In 1968, she appeared as Nikki Jason in the episode "To Kill a Writer" on Mike Connors
Mike Connors

Mike Connors is a Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the long-running Columbia Broadcasting System television series, Mannix....
's CBS detective series Mannix
Mannix

Mannix is an United States Police procedural that ran from 1967 in television through 1975 in television on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by television producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is an Armenian-American private investigator....
. Her last television role was as "June" in "The Adversaries" episode of CBS's Medical Center
Medical Center (TV series)

Medical Center is a Medical drama which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976....
 starring James Daly and Chad Everett
Chad Everett

Chad Everett is an United States actor who has appeared in over 40 films and Television program but is probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the 1970s television drama Medical Center ....
.