Alice Pearce

Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 by Sandra Gould. Peterson's father is a doctor who specializes in otolaryngology. Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the show began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season. She has acted in about 16 different movies and television shows. Pearce was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for this role. Peterson went on to make other movies, none of which have achieved the box-office success of Can't Buy me Love. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner, played by George Tobias, provided a common thread through many of the series early episodes. Amanda Peterson and Patrick Dempsey subsequently appeared on covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and many others for a considerable amount of time.

As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Prior to that, Peterson had a starring role in The Explorers, and she also acted with Robert De Niro. In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. Peterson and co-star Patrick Dempsey obtained teen idol status after the release of the 1987 movie. More movie roles followed, and she made appearances on Broadway, where she met her husband director Paul Davis during a production of The Bells are Ringing. Amanda Peterson (born July 8, 1971 in Greeley, Colorado) is an actress who gained much fame during the late 1980s, when she portrayed Cindy Mancini, a Tucson, Arizona high-school student, in the movie Can't Buy me Love. Her comedic performance was well received by critics and public alike, and she was given her own television variety show.

Gene Kelly was so impressed by her, that she became the only cast member to be included in the film version in 1949. She began working in nightclubs as a comedienne and was cast in the Broadway production of On The Town. Born Alicia Pearce in New York City, Pearce was educated in Europe and returned to the US as an adult. Alice Pearce (October 16, 1913 - March 3, 1966) was an American actress.