Roberta Carol "Bobbi" Jordan (née Bartlett; July 11, 1937 – November 9, 2012) was an American actress whose television and film credits included the soap opera General Hospital and the 1974 musical film Mame.[1][2] Her name is sometimes seen as Bobbie Jordan.[3]
Jordan was born Bobbie Carol Bartlett and was raised in Hardinsburg, Kentucky, the daughter of Dixie (nee Jones) and Elgin Grigsby Bartlett, the manager of a local restaurant.[4] Her parents divorced in 1950, while living in Louisville.[5] She moved from Kentucky to Chicago, and then to Los Angeles, originally to study and pursue opera.[1] Jordan had to take jobs as a waitress in California. A club manager overheard her singing in the kitchen and offered her a role in the club's musical.[1] She was given the lead in the club's Cinderella production, which soon led to a contract with the William Morristalent agency.[1]
Actingedit
Jordan debuted as a series regular in a 1966 ABC television series, The Rounders,[1][2] in the role of Ada.[6]: 912 She also co-starred in the role of Tootsie Woodley in the CBS series Blondie, beginning in 1968.[6]
She later co-starred as Terri Webber Arnett, a singer and former nightclub singer, on General Hospital during the mid-1970s.[1] She remained as a series regular on General Hospital from March 1976 until September 1977. Jordan was also a series regular in the role of Estelle on the short-lived CBS series Joe and Sons,[6]: 536 and she played Judy Overmeyer in the 1978–1979 NBC sitcom, Turnabout,[6]: 1113 written by Steven Bochco.[1][2]
Jordan pursued film roles as well. She was cast as a waitress in the 1967 film A Guide for the Married Man, starring Walter Matthau.[1] She also was featured in Mame, a 1974 musical starring Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur, as an Irish maid who ends up marrying Mame's ward, her nephew Patrick Dennis.[1]
Jordan died of a heart attack at her home in Encinitas, California on November 9, 2012, at the age of 75.[2] She was predeceased by her late husband of 43 years, television writer William "Bill" Jacobson (September 22, 1919 – July 19, 2011), whom she married on October 23, 1968.[7] Jacobson had been the lead writer for The Kate Smith Show in 1960.[1] She was survived by her son, screenwriter Jordan Roberts (born Bruce Robert Jordan on June 19, 1957), two grandchildren, Brandon and Cameron, and her stepdaughter, Jessie Jacobson.[1]
^ abcde"Actress Bobbi Jordan dies, Was former star of 'General Hospital'". Variety. November 26, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
^Wilson, Scott (August 22, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set). McFarland. p. 386. ISBN9780786479924. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
^Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper, September 26, 1950, Section 2, Page 6, citing Jefferson Circuit Court, File No. 323348.
^ abcdTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 115. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
^Barnes, Mike (August 5, 2011). "Bill Jacobson, Comedy Writer From TV's Golden Era, Dies at 91". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
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