Ellen Demming
{{Short description|American actress (1922–2002)}}
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| birth_name = Betty Ellen Weber
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| nationality = American
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Ellen Demming (born Betty Ellen Weber; November 10, 1922 – February 7, 2002) was an American actress, best known for her role as Meta Bauer on the soap opera Guiding Light, which she played from 1953 to 1974.
Life
A Schenectady, New York-born graduate of Stephens College, Demming also acted in off-Broadway and summer stock theatrical productions. She played Mary in Family Portrait. Brooks Atkinson deemed her performance, as the Virgin Mary, as full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling." After her retirement from The Guiding Light, she moved to South Salem, New York, and later, to Vermont.
Personal life
She was married to television producer Hal Thompson.{{When|date=November 2016}} She died in 2002, aged 79, in Springfield, Vermont, from undisclosed causes.{{IMDb name|0218595}}
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite news |date=1953-06-28 |title=Good Luck Is Her Shadow |pages=65 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122771189/good-luck-is-her-shadow/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- {{Cite news |last=Cail |first=Harold L. |date=1951-07-18 |title=TV Is Old Stuff |pages=16 |work=Evening Express |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122771323/tv-is-old-stuffharold-l-cail/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- {{Cite news |date=1953-01-27 |title=Profile |pages=5 |work=The Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122771376/profile/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}
- {{Cite news |date=1961-04-22 |title='Meta' Started on TV in High School Days |pages=47 |work=The Buffalo News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122771493/meta-started-on-tv-in-high-school-days/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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Category:Actresses from New York (state)
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:Stephens College alumni
Category:Actors from Schenectady, New York
Category:People from South Salem, New York
Category:20th-century American actresses
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