Olive Moorefield: Difference between revisions

'''Olive Moorefield''' (born 23 August 1932) is an American actress and singer.<ref>[http://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_M/Moorefield-Mach_Olive.xml]</ref> She appeared in more than twenty films from 1954 to 1976.

 

Moorefield is one of nine children. When she was 5 years old, she began studying music, and at 8 she was singing solos in church. At 16, she began studying opera with the help of a $4,000 scholarship from a radio station in Pittsburgh. Her early employment included babysitting, singing in night clubs, and stenography.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |title=New Musical Star in Old Vienna |journal=Ebony |date=November 1962 |volume=XVIII |issue=1 |pages=61-62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz8uGcoeLZQC&pg=PA61&dq=%22Olive+Moorefield%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcrbe1ybf0AhXckmoFHet7AvAQ6AF6BAgnEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Olive%20Moorefield%22&f=true |access-date=November 27, 2021}}</ref>

 

On stage, Moorefield sang with the Pittsburgh Light Opera Company<ref name=":0" /> and portrayed Bess a 1965 production of ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' in [[Vienna]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Viennese Get Plenty of Opera Out of Catfish Row |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/10/20/archives/viennese-gel-plenty-of-opera-out-of-catfish-row.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=October 20, 1965 |page=53}}</ref> She performed in that production and in ''[[Kiss Me, Kate|Kiss Me Kate]]'' as leading lady of the [[Vienna Volksoper]].<ref name=":0" />