Brett Ferino
03-25-2003, 08:19 AM
Actress and former game show spokeswoman Jean Sullivan, who was formerly married to game show panel legend Tom Poston, has died of cardiac arrest at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Cal. She was 79.
Sullivan was the commercial spokeswoman for Swanson TV dinners on The Name's the Same during the 1953-54 season. Her spots are not shown when kinescopes of the game air on Game Show Network.
Sullivan was also a Broadway producer and lead dancer for the American Ballet Theatre Company.
Sullivan's best-known film was "Uncertain Glory" with Errol Flynn in 1944. She also appeared in "Escape to the Desert" and "Roughly Speaking" (with Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson). Her final film was in 1976, "Squirm."
She is survived by her daughter, Francesca Poston (from marriage to Tom Poston); a brother and two sisters.
Sullivan was the commercial spokeswoman for Swanson TV dinners on The Name's the Same during the 1953-54 season. Her spots are not shown when kinescopes of the game air on Game Show Network.
Sullivan was also a Broadway producer and lead dancer for the American Ballet Theatre Company.
Sullivan's best-known film was "Uncertain Glory" with Errol Flynn in 1944. She also appeared in "Escape to the Desert" and "Roughly Speaking" (with Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson). Her final film was in 1976, "Squirm."
She is survived by her daughter, Francesca Poston (from marriage to Tom Poston); a brother and two sisters.