Phyllis Welch(1913-2008)
- Actress
- Camera and Electrical Department
Harold Lloyd's co-star in
Professor Beware (1938) had
eight years training as a dancer and actress in Michigan and Ohio. For
a while, she taught dancing at the University of Toledo, worked briefly
in stock and then headed off to New York. After appearing in two failed
Broadway productions, she received her first good reviews for
'End of Summer'
(originally as understudy to Doris Dudley)
in 1936. On the strength of her performance,
Guthrie McClintic cast her in
'High Tor' in 1937,
opposite Burgess Meredith
and Peggy Ashcroft. She had some success
on radio, particularly in 'John's Other Wife' (1937) and was heard on
'The Palmolive Hour' and 'Lux Radio Theatre'. Her contract with Lloyd
for 'Professor Beware' stipulated that she was not to marry or become
engaged for six months after release, or forfeit $ 5,000. Phyllis
promptly married after completing the film, returned to Broadway and
was not seen on celluloid again.