Celebrity Biographies
Audrey totter
Audrey Totter, blonde actress present in film noir classics such as “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and “Lady in the Lake” died on December 12, 2013 at the age of 95 of heart failure, at West Hills Hospital in Los Angels.
Born on December 20, 1917, in Joliet (Illinois), Audrey Mary Totter was the daughter of a Slovenian and a Swedish woman. In the late 1930s she became a radio actress in Chicago and New York. Her success led to MGM offering her a contract to intervene in the cinema.
After appearing briefly in a number of titles, she played her first significant role in Tay Garnett ‘s The Postman Always Rings Twice , playing Madge Gordland, the attractive woman with whom John Garfield ‘s character cheats on Cora ( Lana Turner ). The role was inherited by Anjelica Huston in the 1981 version.
With Robert Montgomery he starred in Lady of the Lake , a famous film shot with a subjective camera. She played a literary editor who hired detective Philip Marlowe (Montgomery). With Robert Ryan she led the cast of the great boxing classic No One Can Beat Me , by Robert Wise .
Audrey Totter remained active until the late 1980s, when she took part in a chapter of Murder She Wrote , which marked her farewell to acting. In 1953 she had married Leo Fred, then dean of the UCLA School of Medicine, to whom they were united until her death in 1953. They only had one child.