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Sandra Church: dinner with a Broadway star

“I met her by chance at a friend of a friend’s dinner. I liked how her hair, mask and shirt went together.” The former actress and singer played a leading role in the original Broadway production of “Gypsy” – opposite Ethel Merman. She also played Marlon Brando’s wife in the 1963 film version of “The Ugly American,” as well as many roles on television in the late ’50s and early ’60s.

Sandra Church, at 22, played opposite Ethel Merman in the 1959 Broadway production of “Gypsy.” Photo courtesy of Friedman-Abeles/New York Public Library
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