Forever Esmeralda, but there was more on her professional plate besides. It's been a long time since I've seen GATOR but I remember she and Jack Weston having some fun with it.

What a shame. She did a great "flustered" on BEWITCHED.

Wasn't Alice Ghostly married to Felice Orlandi, the Continental rico suave whose murder Steve McQueen winds up investigating in BULLIT?

She was indeed. He died in 2003. They were married 50 years. It's an intriguing pairing, based on their divergent resumes (her, sitcoms; him, bad guys on cop shows).

Ghostley also accepted Maggie Smith's Oscar for THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. They were good friends going back to their early stage days.

Her swan song was her sublimely ditzy Bernice on "Designing Woman." There's a sterling example of an actress taking a character who was probably only intended for an episode or two and making her a regular.

I loved when Bernice, acting on her crush on the designing firm's African-American assistant, Anthony, would suddenly and inexplicably go into an obscure civil rights song (it MUST have been Ghostley's idea): "Black maaaan..."

Mr. Cahill knows, of course, that both Ghostley and Smith appeared in various editions of the once-popular "NEW FACES OF" stage revue. Ghostley was in NFO 1952, which also intoduced her gay male counterpart, Paul Lynde!