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name: "Vivian Blaine"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 November 1921"
died: "9 December 1995"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-19T22:28:48.200574+00:00"
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# Vivian Blaine

Actor. Born 21 November 1921 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Died 9 December 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 November 1921, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 9 December 1995
- **Also known as:** Vivian Stapleton
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Blaine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086176/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41748

## Biography

Vivian Blaine (born Vivian Stapleton) was an American actress and singer. She began performing in vaudeville as a child and toured as a band singer before signing with Twentieth Century-Fox in 1942. Her early film roles included Susan Cowan in *Jitterbugs* (1943) and Emily Edwards in *State Fair* (1945).

Blaine originated the role of Miss Adelaide in the 1950 Broadway production of *Guys and Dolls*, which ran for 1,200 performances, and reprised it in the 1955 film adaptation. She appeared on Broadway in other productions including *A Hatful of Rain*, *Say, Darling*, *Enter Laughing* and *Company*, and made later film and television appearances including in *The Dark* (1979) and *Parasite* (1982). She died in 1995.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *State Fair* (1945), Fi1m 70, as Emily Edwards — [page](https://film.one/film/state-fair.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Broadway's Lost Treasures* (2003), as Adelaide (segment "Guys & Dolls")
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Rita Bristol
- *I'm Going to Be Famous* (1983), as Laura Lowell
- *Showbiz Goes to War* (1982), as (archive footage)
- *Parasite* (1982), as Elizabeth Daley
- *The Dark* (1979), as Cortney Floyd
- *Sooner or Later* (1979), as Cosmetics Saleslady
- *Fast Friends* (1979), as Sylvia
- *The Cracker Factory* (1979), as Helen
- *Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold* (1978), as Marietta Cutler
- *Vega$* (1978), series, Actor
- *Fantasy Island* (1978), series, as Mrs. Deverse
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Barbara Sharp
- *Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman* (1976), series, as Betty McCullough
- *Richard* (1972), as Cameo
- *Route 66* (1960), series, Actor
- *Public Pigeon No. 1* (1957), as Rita DeLacey
- *Guys and Dolls* (1955), as Miss Adelaide
- *Dream Girl* (1955), as Georgina Allerton
- *Damon Runyon Theater* (1955), series, as Cutie Singleton
- *Skirts Ahoy!* (1952), as Una Yancey
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Georgina Allerton
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Coral
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor
- *Three Little Girls in Blue* (1946), as Liz Charters
- *If I'm Lucky* (1946), as Linda Farrell
- *Doll Face* (1945), as Mary Elizabeth 'Doll Face' Carroll
- *State Fair* (1945), as Emily Edwards — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/state-fair.md)
- *Nob Hill* (1945), as Sally Templeton
- *Something for the Boys* (1944), as Blossom Hart
- *Greenwich Village* (1944), as Bonnie Watson
- *Jitterbugs* (1943), as Susan Cowan
- *He Hired the Boss* (1943), as Sally Conway
- *Girl Trouble* (1942), as Barbara
- *Thru Different Eyes* (1942), as Sue Boardman

## Gallery

- ![Vivian Blaine](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-52d93e308a96.jpg) Vivian Blaine — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Vivian_Blaine_1979_crop.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vivian Blaine in the TV-film Dream Girl - publicity still (original image damaged, modified & cropped : see source) (1955)](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-308aef5cd2a3.jpg) Vivian Blaine in the TV-film Dream Girl - publicity still (original image damaged, modified & cropped : see source) (1955) — unknown (NBC-TV), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Vivian_Blaine_in_Dream_Girl.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vivian Blaine, 20th Century Fox player. Portrait by Bradshaw Crandell](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-f93bace84ca2.jpg) Vivian Blaine, 20th Century Fox player. Portrait by Bradshaw Crandell — Bradshaw Crandell (1896-1966), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Vivian_Blaine%2C_20th_Century_Fox_player.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vivian Blaine with ? at the National Film Society convention, May 1979. NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but pleas](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-9b774e1283cd.jpg) Vivian Blaine with ? at the National Film Society convention, May 1979. NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but pleas — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Vivian_Blaine_%284505754037%29.jpg/1280px-Vivian_Blaine_%284505754037%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vivian Blaine](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-c813b84c6bba.jpg) Vivian Blaine — Image via TMDB
- ![Left to right: June Haver, Vera-Ellen, and Vivian Blaine in Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) - publicity still (cropped : see source)](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-944e3b145171.jpg) Left to right: June Haver, Vera-Ellen, and Vivian Blaine in Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) - publicity still (cropped : see source) — unknown (20th Century Fox), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Three_Little_Girls_in_Blue_%281946%29_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L. to r.: Frank Silvera, Peter Mark Richman & Vivian Blaine in the Michael V. Gazzo's play A Hatful of Rain (Broadway, 1956) - publicity still (cropped) (1957)](https://film.one/media/person/1226792/gallery-6d8a7300022d.jpg) L. to r.: Frank Silvera, Peter Mark Richman & Vivian Blaine in the Michael V. Gazzo's play A Hatful of Rain (Broadway, 1956) - publicity still (cropped) (1957) — Friedman-Abeles studio, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Silvera-Richman-Blaine_in_A_Hatful_of_Rain.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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