Highest rated movie: All the President's Men (1976)
Lowest rated movie: The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
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Movies starring Allyn Ann McLerie have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
All the President's Men - released in 1976 - is Allyn Ann McLerie's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 755 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Allyn Ann McLerie is The Magnificent Seven Ride! - released in 1972 - with a score of 44% based on 16 reviews.
Allyn Ann McLerie (born December 1, 1926, Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer and dancer who worked with most of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. McLerie made her Broadway debut as a teenager in Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus. She went on to replace Sono Osato as Ivy in On the Town, then created the role of Amy Spettigue in the 1948 Broadway production of Where's Charley? (Theatre World Award). Her other Broadway credits include Miss Liberty, the drama Time Limit, Redhead (understudying Gwen Verdon), and West Side Story. McLerie also danced as a guest soloist with American Ballet Theatre during its 1950-51 European and South American tour.
McLerie's best-known film appearances are as Amy in Where's Charley? (1952), Katie Brown in Calamity Jane (1953), Shirley in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and as The Crazy Woman in Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Other film work includes Words and Music (1948) and The Desert Song (1952). She enjoyed a long career as a character actress on television, making frequent guest appearances on shows such as Bonanza, The Waltons, The Love Boat, Barney Miller, Benson, Hart to Hart, St. Elsewhere, and Dynasty, among many others. She played Miss Janet Reubner, Tony Randall's assistant, on The Tony Randall Show from 1976-1978. McLerie played the recurring role of Arthur Carlson's wife, Carmen on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82). She may be best-remembered as Florence Bickford, the title character's mother on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1987-1991. Her last role was on an episode of Brooklyn Bridge in 1993.
Allyn Ann McLerie has acted in films with Robert Redford, Bess Flowers, Charles Tyner and Bruce Dern.
Allyn Ann McLerie has worked with these film directors: Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell, Raoul Walsh and Lou Antonio.
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