I bet you thought Alice was already dead. Nope. But she is now. I loved this show as a kid. I particularly like the later episodes after Marcia and Jan had fully developed. Hey, I was 11.
RIP Anne B. Davis
Ann B. Davis, the Emmy Award–winning actress best known for her role as the housekeeper Alice on the iconic 1970s sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” has died at the age of 88 in San Antonio, Texas.
A representative of the medical examiner’s office in Bexar County said that no cause of death was available, according to the Associated Press, but that an autopsy was planned for Monday. Davis had suffered a fall Saturday at her San Antonio home, the AP cited a longtime friend as having reported. The actress died the following day.
As the housekeeper for a blended family of three boys and three girls and their respective parents, Davis’s “Brady Bunch” character has been described as the glue that held the household together.
“I think I’m lovable. That’s the gift God gave me,” Davis told the Associated Press in a 1993 interview. “I don’t do anything to be lovable. I have no control.”
The “Brady Bunch” ran on ABC from September 1969 to March 1974, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It has been a long-running rerun favorite ever since.
Davis had previously won Emmys in 1958 and 1959 for her work on “The Bob Cummings Show,” in which she played, according to the AP, a razor-tongued secretary.
Davis, noted the AP, had credited her relatively unremarkable appearance for her success on the stage and in TV and film. “I know at least a couple hundred glamour gals who are starving in this town,” the AP recalled Davis’s having told the Los Angeles Times in 1955, the year the Cummings show began its four-year run. “I’d rather be myself and eating.”
