NEW YORK CITY — Tony Award-nominated actress, singer and dancer Virginia Gibson died here April 25. She was 88.
Her career began in St. Louis in the chorus at the Muny Opera in Forest Park. In the ’50s she made her movie debut in “Tea for Two,” followed by roles in “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine,” “About Face” and “Stop You’re Killing Me,” but was best known as Liza in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”
She was also a regular performer on “The Johnny Carson Show” (1955–56), an earlier Carson series, not to be confused with “The Tonight Show.” From the early 1960s to the early 1970s she co-hosted the ABC-TV children’s documentary program “Discovery.”
In 1957 she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for her portrayal of Beth Livingstone in “Happy Hunting.”
MSTies will remember her as Mary in the short ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON, seen in episode 701- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.

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