Arlene McQuade
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Arlene McQuade was a TV, radio and theater actress primarily known for playing Gertrude Berg’s teenage daughter Rosalie on the 1950s CBS series The Goldbergs.
McQuade worked on radio and TV shows before acting in Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke on Broadway at age 12. Her performance drew CBS executives’ attention, and soon after, she was signed to play a leading role on the TV version of The Goldbergs, which began as a 1928 radio drama about a Jewish immigrant family.
Arlene McQuade was a TV, radio and theater actress primarily known for playing Gertrude Berg’s teenage daughter Rosalie on the 1950s CBS series The Goldbergs.
McQuade worked on radio and TV shows before acting in Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke on Broadway at age 12. Her performance drew CBS executives’ attention, and soon after, she was signed to play a leading role on the TV version of The Goldbergs, which began as a 1928 radio drama about a Jewish immigrant family.
A five-year member of the New York Actors Studio, McQuade traveled to California in 1957 to play Ginnie in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. On set, she met her husband, actor Valentin DeVargas.
In addition to her other work, McQuade appeared in TV shows including Telephone Time, The Lawless Years, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun — Will Travel, Death Valley Days and Hawaii Five-O.
A lover of both drama and art, McQuade also created oil and watercolor paintings, wood and glass sculptures and sea glass lamps.
McQuade died on April 21, 2014, in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 77.
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