#Shirl Conway

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Forgotten actress Shirl Conway

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Series Premiere

The Nurses - Night Shift - CBS - September 27, 1962

Medical Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Written by John Vlahos

Produced by Herbert Brodkin

Directed by David Greene

Stars:

Shirl Conway as Liz Thorpe

Zina Bethune as Gail Lucas

Viveca Lindfors as Mrs. Yanopoulos

Ruth McDevitt as Miss Dillon

Arthur Hill as Paul Barrett

Morgan Sterne as Dr. Canaday

Joey Heatherton as Janet Clark

Hilda Simms as Miss Ayres

Elisabeth Fraser as Mrs. Lawson

Sybil White as Mrs. Barrett

Diana Sands as Andrea Jager

Adam Kennedy as Dr. Parsons

Kermit Murdock as The Staff Internist

John Gibson as The Staff OB

Dick O'Neill as Fred Lawson

Barbara Mattes as Lois Wiant

Julie Hirsh as Mary Colandrea

Ben Yaffee as Dr. Lockhardt

Kay Hawtrey as The Nurse's Aid

Ed Wagner as The Anesthetist

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CELEBRITY SUNDAY!

The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama that was broadcast in the USA on CBS from September 27, 1962, to May 11, 1965. It starred Zina Bethune and Shirl Conway.

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 TV Guide -  February 29 - March 6, 1964

Shirl Conway (born Shirley Elizabeth Crosman, June 13, 1916 – May 7, 2007)  Television and Broadway actress.

She played the role of Liz Thorpe in the CBS drama The Nurses (which ran from 1962 to 1965) for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1963 for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series. Other TV credits include Route 66, The Defenders, and Caesar's Hour.  (Wikipedia)

Zina Bianca Bethune (February 17, 1945 – February 12, 2012)  Actress, dancer, and choreographer known for playing "Miss Tuttle" on Father Murphy and "Abigail" on General Hospital

As a child performer, Bethune appeared in several American daytime television dramas, including a stint as the first "Robin Lang" on The Guiding Light from May 1956 to April 1958. 

In October 1958, she portrayed Amy March in the CBS musical adaptation of Little Women. She portrayed nurse Gail Lucas on The Nurses (1962–65), and appeared in other series, including Kraft Television Theatre (with Martin Huston in the series finale), Route 66, The Judy Garland Show, Pantomime Quiz, Hollywood Squares, Young Dr. Malone, Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, The Invaders, and Emergency!  (Wikipedia)

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Caesar's Hour (1957)

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TV Guide  -  December 15 - 21, 1962

Shirl Conway (born Shirley Elizabeth Crosman, June 13, 1916 – May 7, 2007)  Television and Broadway actress.

She played the role of Liz Thorpe in the CBS drama The Nurses (which ran from 1962 to 1965) for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1963 for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series. Other TV credits include Route 66, The Defenders, and Caesar's Hour.  (Wikipedia)

Zina Bianca Bethune (February 17, 1945 – February 12, 2012)  Actress, dancer, and choreographer known for playing "Miss Tuttle" on Father Murphy and "Abigail" on General Hospital

As a child performer, Bethune appeared in several American daytime television dramas, including a stint as the first "Robin Lang" on The Guiding Light from May 1956 to April 1958. 

In October 1958, she portrayed Amy March in the CBS musical adaptation of Little Women. She portrayed nurse Gail Lucas on The Nurses (1962–65), and appeared in other series, including Kraft Television Theatre (with Martin Huston in the series finale), Route 66, The Judy Garland Show, Pantomime Quiz, Hollywood Squares, Young Dr. Malone, Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, The Invaders, and Emergency!  (Wikipedia)

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The Nurses (1962-1965)