– and later adopted son of The Merm’s 3rd hubby Bob Six, Continental Airlines CEO) Her sister Renee recalled: “Bob and Barbara were a fantastic couple. His teachings on the Divine Being within yourself continue to this day.īarbara fell in love and married Bob Levitt Six (the son of Ethel Merman and her 2nd husband Bob Levitt Sr. A guru of great charisma, Baba Muktananda drew such celebrities as John Denver, Olivia Hussey, James Taylor, Carly Simon and Marsha Mason into his fold. “Barbara believed in fate, and that everything had a purpose.” Barbara was a devotee of Swami Muktananda, who wrote several books and established over 600 Siddha Yoga centers and ashrams around the world before his passing in 1982.
Renee remembered her sis Barbara’s fondness for spirituality, psychics and the tarot. She doesn’t drink, eats only vegetables, meditates often for long periods, and takes life and her place in it very seriously.” Barbara who plays Kristina lends me a dress…the dress has a faint smell of incense.
Ullman remembered Barbara in her memoir “Changing” and wrote: “I receive the prize as the year’s best actress from NY critics. Liv Ullman and Barbara appeared together on stage in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Jack Klugman, Ron Rifkin, Marsha Mason, Oliver Hailey and Liv Ullman. With her full-body laugh, great enthusiasm, and caring personality, Barbara’s circle of acting chums continued to grow and included: For the next five years, she impressed critics and audiences with roles in Under Milkwood, Murder in the Cathedral and as Portia in Julius Caesar. She found the theatre and she surmounted it all.”įollowing a solid performance in Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1964, she made her Broadway debut in The Devils in 1965. Her kid sister Renee shared with me that “Barbara had a lot of personal rejections in her early life. She graduated from Bard and also did one semester at the Sorbonne in Paris.Ĭolby returned to Manhattan where she had short stints as a waitress and secretary – but her focus was on theater. After high school graduation in 1957, she got a scholarship to Bard College on the Hudson – in her native New York state. She started appearing in plays and sewing costumes at a French Quarter community theater Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre. She was so well-liked by the MTM Productions family that they brought her character back as an aspiring designer who gifts her buddy Mary with a ‘Sherry original’ (hoochie dress).īarbara Colby first discovered theater in her senior year of high school in New Orleans. This story of Barbara Colby and her murder is found on the great website that was created and written by a friend, the talented Scott Michaels.īroadway and television actress Barbara Colby is best known today as Sherry the prostitute in the 1975 Mary Tyler Moore Show episode in which newswoman Mary Richards goes to jail for not divulging her sources.īarbara’s toothy smile, husky voice, and sharp acting skills made her instantly memorable to audiences. She had just secured a regular part (she had done 3 episodes already) on “Phyllis ” starring Cloris Leachman. When I read the credits and saw her name, I recalled that she was in actuality brutally murdered four years later in 1975 in Los Angeles (Venice) with a fellow actor. However, in re watching this entry I noticed a standout actress named Barbara Colby who was brutally murdered in the episode. I interviewed both of those kids for the biography. In this episode the guest star Jack Cassidy, it was directed by some kid named Steven Spielberg and written by another kid named Steven Bochco. I was interested as I am completing the biography of Peter Falk.
#California unsolved wiki series#
As I was recently watching a rerun of the 1971 premiere episode of the Columbo series entitled, “Murder by the Book”(there were two previous TV movies).
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