Alexis Smith

In 1972 Alexis Smith won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance. Death
Smith died of brain cancer in Los Angeles in 1993 on the day after her 72nd birthday. Her stage career continued through the 1970s with appearances in the 1973 all-star revival of The Women (1973) the short-lived re-working of William Inge's drama Picnic re-titled Summer Brave (1975) and the ill-fated musical Platinum (1978) which earned her another Tony nomination for her performance but closed after a brief run.

Alexis Smith (June 8 1921 – June 9 1993) was a Canadian-born stage film and television actress. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s winning a Tony Award in 1972.