Vivienne Segal

From Wikipedia Vivienne Sonia Segal April 19 1897 December 29 1992 was an American actress and singer Segal was born on April 19 1897 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts Pal Joey and introduced the song Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered Pal Joey opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre December 25 1940 with a cast that included Gene Kelly and June Havoc She also starred as Morgan LeFay in the Rodgers and Hart revival of A Connecticut Yankee in 1942 One of Lorenz Harts last songs To Keep My Love Alive was written specifically for her in this show Since the 1940 production went unrecorded a studio cast was assembled in 1950 to record the musical In 2003 this recording was reissued by Columbia Broadway Masterworks in a release featuring such Rodgers and Hart tunes as I Could Write a Book Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered Zip and Take Him as well as two bonus tracks Lang singing I Could Write a Book from the CBS TV show Shower of Stars and Segalinterviewed by Mike Wallace on the CBS Radio show Stage Struckrecalled Harts promise to write her a show and then sings Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered She was also a performer on the CBS Radio program Accordiana in 1934 She retired from acting in 1966 following a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Pauline Thorsen in The Case of the Tsarinas Tiara Segals first marriage to actor Robert Ames ended in divorce She then married television executive Hubbell Robinson She died in Beverly Hills California of heart failure on December 29 1992 aged 95 She was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles