Elizabeth Ashley

Elizabeth Ashley carried forward her victorious beginning with her performance as Corrie Bratter in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). In 1963 she made her film debut as Monica Winthrop in The Carpetbaggers (1963). She co-starred with her then husband George Peppard in the movie. Ashley had quit acting for five years after the 1965 film Ship of Fools. She brought out her autobiography Actress: Postcards From the Road in 1978. She had refused to act in the film version of Barefoot in the Park led to a professional freeze out for her. In 1970 she reinvented herself as an actress and by this time her acting had taken a harsh turn or edge, and this, in the long run had a beneficial impact on her career. She appeared as Maggie in the 1974 Broadway resurgence of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and this completed her comeback.