![Carol Bruce](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/ctYwZBwbUMrYkq0IYs8pguVz3BR.jpg)
Carol Bruce
Carol Bruce was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. Bruce began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band, and later sang with Ben Bernie's orchestra in 1940-1941. Bruce made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase, with songs by Irving Berlin, who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 1932 revival and the 1936 film. Bruce appeared with Abbott and Costello in Keep 'Em Flying (1941). Her first serious film role was in This Woman Is Mine (1941). She had supporting roles many years later in the films American Gigolo (1980) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. After a long career as a singer and in films, Bruce is probably best-remembered for her recurring role as the domineering and meddlesome Lillian "Mama" Carlson (mother of the station manager played by Gordon Jump) on CBS' WKRP in Cincinnati.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.071 |
Birthday | 1919-11-15 |
Place of Birth | Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA |
Also Known As |
![Planes, Trains and Automobiles](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3RSucVsX96Ste8WDJfZP1hbNGqQ.jpg)
1987
![Planes, Trains and Automobiles](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3RSucVsX96Ste8WDJfZP1hbNGqQ.jpg)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
7.243/1840
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![American Gigolo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/igXGCwti23PHOjLKQX6eGIGzQiJ.jpg)
1980
![American Gigolo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/igXGCwti23PHOjLKQX6eGIGzQiJ.jpg)
American Gigolo
6.1/603
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife...
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![Keep 'Em Flying](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xOPPNuWygmEos57uanj6t7FMimB.jpg)
1941
![Keep 'Em Flying](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xOPPNuWygmEos57uanj6t7FMimB.jpg)
Keep 'Em Flying
6/17
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello,...
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![Behind the Eight Ball](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/duNWaClC8OPcse8mZofP92UO8g4.jpg)
1942
![Behind the Eight Ball](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/duNWaClC8OPcse8mZofP92UO8g4.jpg)
Behind the Eight Ball
4.7/3
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comed...
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![The Girl Who Returned](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/z0MHa0BXn7o3xc9p6cTxMznSx2n.jpg)
1969
![The Girl Who Returned](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/z0MHa0BXn7o3xc9p6cTxMznSx2n.jpg)
The Girl Who Returned
0/0
Tough and exacting coach Geneva whips track star Lucy into shape for an upcoming Olympic event. Geneva's training proves to be so gruelling that Lucy...
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![This Woman Is Mine](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eTg6OERTcisEyi89zlmbvw0kbuJ.jpg)
1941
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This Woman Is Mine
3.2/5
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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![The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sqBhPAvSwPCZq4Kg79CvxGrU7nj.jpg)
1996
![The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sqBhPAvSwPCZq4Kg79CvxGrU7nj.jpg)
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
6.186/326
When Littlefoot grandfather falls ill, The dinosaurs only way to cure him is a flower in the forbidding land of mist which hold unexpecting perils and...
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![Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
1937
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Koo Koo Korrespondance Skool
0/0
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