Charita Bauer (December 20, 1922 – February 28, 1985) was an American soap opera radio and television actress.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, she began her career at the age of eight as a model for clothing ads. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York and her first theater appearance was on Broadway in Thunder on the Left (1933).
Bauer was active throughout the 1930s and 1940s on numerous radio dramas of the day, including Let's ...
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Charita Bauer (December 20, 1922 – February 28, 1985) was an American soap opera radio and television actress.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, she began her career at the age of eight as a model for clothing ads. She attended the Professional Children's School in New York and her first theater appearance was on Broadway in Thunder on the Left (1933).
Bauer was active throughout the 1930s and 1940s on numerous radio dramas of the day, including Let's Pretend, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. The March of Time, The FBI in Peace and War, Suspense and other programs.
She played headstrong and opinionated Bertha "Bert" Miller Bauer on the long-running soap The Guiding Light on radio from 1950 to 1956 and on TV from 1952 to 1985. While her character was a spitfire in the earlier days, by the 1970s she had been relegated to the ceremonial role of town matriarch. To avoid confusion between her real life and her popular soap role, Charita asked the show's producers to name her TV son Michael...
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