Karen Morrow

Karen Morrow
Karen Morrow made several guest appearances as a panelist on both "Match Game" and "Password Plus" in the 1970s.
Name:	Karen Morrow
Birth Hometown:	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation:	Actress, singer , game show panelist
Years active:	1958-present
Known for:	appearances on Match Game and Password Plus
Website/URL:	Official website

Karen Morrow (born December 15, 1936) made 6 appearances as a guest panelist on the CBS-TV series Match Game 74 and also an episode of NBC-TV's Password Plus from March 26-30 in 1979 and in October 1980. She also appeared in an episode of the short-lived Chuck Barris produced game show The Game Game in 1970 and also made a guest appearance on the short-lived ABC-TV game show Showoffs in November 1975. A singer-actress best known for her work in musical theater, Karen's honors include an Emmy Award and a Theatre World Award, and an Ovation Award and five Drama-Logue Award nominations.

Career

Morrow's first Broadway production, I Had a Ball, with Buddy Hackett and Richard Kiley, opened in December 1964, and folded six months later amid lackluster reviews. Most of Morrow's later Broadway productions would also have short runs despite some impressive casts. Two years later, she appeared as Mary Texas in A Joyful Noise, a misconceived effort to incorporate country music into a Broadway show. It closed after 4 previews and 12 performances. Next she played Na'Ama in 1968's I'm Solomon, which vanished just as quickly (9 previews, 7 performances). In November 1971, she appeared as Babylove in The Grass Harp (co-starring Barbara Cook, based on Truman Capote's novel of the same name), which lasted one week at the Martin Beck Theatre, but brought her good notices, especially for her rendition of "Babylove Miracle Show". In 1972, Morrow appeared as Irene Jantzen in another short-lived Broadway production, The Selling of the President, which had 5 regular performances. Her last Broadway performance was as The Princess Puffer/Miss Angela Prysock in The Mystery of Edwin Drood , as a replacement, in December 1986.

After moving to Southern California in the late 1960's, Karen began her work in television, appearing on the CBS-TV series The Jim Nabors Hour (1969-71), as well as on The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Match Game. She won an Emmy Award (with Nancy Dussault for the PBS program "Cabaret Tonight".

Other television appearnces which would follow were on Love, American Style, Starsky and Hutch, The Love Boat, Too Close for Comfort, Trapper John, M.D., Murder she Wrote, Night Court and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She has also appeared in three TV movies: as Eve Wister in I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982), Martha Biggs in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) with Robert Reed and John Travolta, and Mrs. Turner in Cage Without a Key (1975).

Present career

A well sought after teacher/performer, Karen travels the U.S. conducting Master Classes for numerous Universities and Arts Conferences.

Shows appeared on

• The Game Game (1970)
• Showoffs (1970)
• Match Game 74 (6 episodes, 1975)
• Password Plus (6 episodes, 1979-80)

External links

• Karen Morrow at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Karen Morrow article at Wikipedia