Betsy von Furstenberg was a German-born American radio, television, film, and Broadway actress.
Background
Betsy von Furstenberg was born Elizabeth Caroline Maria Agatha Felicitas Therese, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Herdringen in Arnsberg. She has two half siblings from her father"s marriage to Gloria Rubio: Franz-Egon, Freiherr von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (b 1939), and Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise (Mrs Patrick Guinness, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Herdringen. 1936–2012).
Education
Attended Miss Hewitt's Classes, New York Tutoring School. Prepared for stage with Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse.
Career
Her stepmothers were Gloria Rubio, Clara Ghyczy, and Joan Siegel. Though some published sources have described von Furstenberg as a countess, she is in fact a Freiin (baroness) by birth, according to the last published issue of the Almanach de Gotha. She did not use the umlaut of her family surname in her professional career nor its compound hyphenation.
Betsy von Furstenberg appeared on Broadway in Second Threshold (1951), Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1968), The Gingerbread Lady (1970), and Does Anybody Here Do the Peabody? (1976).
On television in the mid-1950s, she memorably starred opposite Robert Horton played a double-crossing young widow in an episode entitled "The Disappearing Trick" directed by Arthur Hiller on the anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She also appeared in the Have Gun - Will Travel episode "Girl from Piccadilly" (1958).
Later, she played the role of Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns from late 1983 into early 1984, when Eileen Fulton temporarily left the show in a contract dispute. Von Furstenberg died on April 21, 2015 from complications of Alzheimer"s disease in Manhattan.
She was 83.
Achievements
Interests
Avocations: tennis, painting, photography.
Connections
Married Guy Vincent de la Maisoneuve (divorced). 2 children.; Married John Jay Reynolds, March 26, 1984.