Isabel Bigley

She originated the part of Sarah Brown in Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls.

In 1953 she starred as Jeanie, the chorus girl, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein show Me and Juliet, a role created especially for her.

[4] On June 25, 1951, she appeared with other entertainers in a one-hour program on CBS that was the start of nationally broadcast color television.

She died in 2006, aged 80, from pulmonary disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Bigley lived in both Los Angeles and Rancho Mirage and in 2005 she was named chairwoman of the board of the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert.