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Brett Somers
Age: 83 (passed away Sep. 15th, 2007)
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Place: New Brunswick, Canada
Born: Jul. 11th, 1924
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Brett Somers' Main TV Roles
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TRIVIA:
- Brett married 'Jack Klugman' (qv) in 1953 and went by the name Brett Somers Klugman at one point. The couple had two children, 'David Klugman' (qv) and 'Adam Klugman' (qv), before separating in 1974. They never divorced.
- Often traveled from New York to Los Angeles with _"Match Game 73" (1973)_ (qv)host 'Gene Rayburn' (qv) to tape the show.
- She and 'Jack Klugman' (qv) made many television appearances as a couple. Somers appeared on several episodes of _"The Odd Couple" (1970)_ (qv), playing the ex-wife of Klugman's character.
- "An Evening with Brett Somers" opened in New York to rave reviews in 2003. At the age of seventy-nine, Brett found herself back in the limelight and won Backstage's prestigious Bistro Award. She was diagnosed with cancer not long after. It went into remission for a time after surgery and chemotherapy, but returned inoperable in 2007.
- In 1957, she played a "wise-cracking broad" in the Broadway play "Maybe Tuesday," which ironically opened on a Wednesday and closed before Tuesday...a fact she joked about in her circa-2002 cabaret show. Other future TV stars in the cast of "Maybe Tuesday" were 'Alice Ghostley' (qv) (later "Esmeralda" on _"Bewitched" (1964)_ (qv)) and 'Louis Edmonds' (qv) ("Roger" on _"Dark Shadows" (1966)_ (qv) and "Langley" on _"All My Children" (1970)_ (qv)). "Maybe Tuesday" is described extensively in 'Craig Hamrick' (qv)'s 2003 book "Big Lou", the biography of 'Louis Edmonds' (qv). The author, a longtime fan of Somers, presented her with a copy of the book at one of her cabaret shows in New York City.
- Made her Broadway debut in the short-lived play "Maybe Tuesday" in 1958, which lasted only five performances. She also appeared in "Happy Ending" with 'Paul Winfield (I)' (qv), "The Seven Year Itch" with 'Art Carney' (qv) and 'Lee Remick' (qv), and in "The Country Girl" with husband Klugman.
- Mother of 'Adam Klugman' (qv), 'David Klugman' (qv) and a daughter, Leslie.
- In 2005 Jack and Brett reunited on stage in "Danger, People at Large," three short comedies by Fred Stroppel at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. The special evening marked the first time in about three decades that Klugman and Somers had performed together.
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