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Anne Whitfield, Young Actress in ‘White Christmas,’ Dies at 85

She worked on the radio in ‘Our Miss Brooks’ and ‘One Man’s Family’ and on lots of TV shows, including ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Peter Gunn,’ ‘Cheyenne’ and ‘That Girl.’

Anne Whitfield, who appeared in the beloved holiday classic White Christmas and on dozens of TV shows, from Father Knows Best, 77 Sunset Strip and Perry Mason to That Girl, Ironside and Emergency!, has died. Her father, Richard, was the orchestra and marching band director at the University of Mississippi, and her mother, Frances, taught speech and drama at a junior college. Whitfield and her mom moved to Los Angeles, and when the actress was 7, she found regular work as a Holocaust survivor on the soap opera One Man’s Family.

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