Job Actress, singer
Years active 1933-78
Top Roles Hester Goodbody, Ethel Mertz / Herself, Minnie, Anna Held Audience Member, Alicia
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Biographical, Musical, Romance, Action
Top TopicsRomance (Drama), New York, Show Business
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Vivian Vance Overview:

Actress, Vivian Vance, was born Vivian Roberta Jones on Jul 26, 1909 in Cherryvale, KS. Vance died at the age of 70 on Aug 17, 1979 in Belvedere, CA .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. In addition, Vance was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame .

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By Aurora on Jul 26, 2012 From How Sweet It Was

, brilliant comedienne and actress, would have turned 103 years old today.? This is in her honor. Vivan Vance was born Vivian Roberta Jones in 1909 in Cherryvale, Kansas.? She studied drama since an early age and started a two-year stint? Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein‘s “... Read full article

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Vivian Vance Quotes:

Maggie DuBois: I want to thank you again for this opportunity, Mr. Goodbody.
Henry Goodbody: I had very little choice after your conversation with my wife.
Hester Goodbody: Henry, if you can't be more gracious, shut up!

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Vivian Vance on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

7000 Hollywood Blvd.


Ceremony Date: Feb 11, 1991
Category: Television
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Vivian Vance Facts
One of her closest friends in childhood was the silent film star Louise Brooks, who was her neighbor in Cherryvale, Kansas.
She left "The Lucy Show" (1962) as a regular in 1965, because the weekly commutes between Connecticut and Los Angeles put a strain on her marriage to publishing executive John Dodds. She asked the show for a $500,000 advance, more creative and directorial control,and a raise in weekly pay. These demands were in part to convince Lucille Ball not to try and talk her out of retirement. She would go on to guest star with Lucy in future projects.
After marrying publisher John Dodds in 1961, she left Los Angeles for good. The couple spent the next several years living in various locations. In 1961, they purchased an old white farmhouse in Stamford, Connecticut. They also purchased a 200 year old schoolhouse in Westchester County, New York to be used as a retreat for the two of them after her years on "The Lucy Show" (1962). As John's career took off, they lived in a penthouse at Beekman Place in Manhattan. Tiring of the big city life, in the late 1960s, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico owning and operating a Travel Agency. In 1974, after her first bout with cancer, they decided to sell the business along with property she owned in Solvang, California to finance a publishing business for John in San Francisco. She would live the rest of her life in Belvedere, California, near to her sister, in a shingle style house by the beach.
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