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Anita Morris
Highest Rated: 93% Ruthless People (1986)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Mar 14, 1943
Birthplace: Durham, North Carolina, USA
A hoofer and actress of stage and screen, Anita Morris is most famous for her role in the Broadway musical "Nine" (1982). Morris also enhanced the NYC productions of "Seesaw" (1973), "The Magic Show" (1974, staged by her husband Grover Dale) "Sugar Babies" (1979, succeeding Ann Jillian) and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1981, playing Miss Mona, the brothel owner). In her glam showgirl incarnation, she graced such features as "Absolute Beginners" (1986), "Aria" (1987) and Tony Richardson's "The Hotel New Hampshire" (1984). Morris provided cameos on several timely series of the moment like "Cheers" (1987), "Miami Vice" (1987) and "Melrose Place" (1992), often as sexy single ladies and moms. She starred in the TV version of "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (Fox, 1987), taking over the role once held by Bette Midler, and was cast as a sultry matriarch on the soapy miniseries "Trade Winds" (NBC, 1993). Perhaps her most remembered film role was playing the mistress of Danny De Vito in "Ruthless People" (1986).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32% | 60% | Radioland Murders | Claudette Katsenback (Character) | $1.2M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Me and the Kid | Mrs. Feldman (Character) | $45.7K | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Little Miss Millions | Sybil Lofton (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock: The Legacy | Elaine Genrich (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Martians Go Home! | Dr. Jane Buchanan (Character) | $131.3K | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Off and Running | Florence (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Sinful Life | Claire Vin Blance (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Miss Missouri Martin (Character) | $25.8K | 1989 |
| 29% | 45% | 18 Again! | Madeline (Character) | $2.3M | 1988 |
| 93% | 72% | Ruthless People | Carol Dodsworth (Character) | $70.9M | 1986 |
| 70% | 38% | Absolute Beginners | Dido Lament, Gossip Columnist (Character) | $278.9K | 1986 |
| 0% | 24% | Blue City | Malvina Kerch-Turner (Character) | $6.0M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | A Smoky Mountain Christmas | Jezebel (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 43% | 60% | Maria's Lovers | Mrs. Wynic (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magic Show | Charmin (Character) | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trade Winds | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 1992 |
| 82% | 96% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who's the Boss? | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Leona Schubert (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Leona Proverb (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Barbara Whiteman (Character) | 1987 |
| 87% | 94% | Cheers | Madeline Keith (Guest Star) | 1987 |