Sally Ann Howes.
She was most famous as “Truly Scrumptious” in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. She did some TV work, including “Mission: Impossible” and “Run For Your Life”.
She also did a fair amount of theater:
Ms. Howes moved to New York in 1958 when she married the composer-lyricist Richard Adler and made her Broadway debut in Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady.” She replaced the original star, Julie Andrews, in the role of Eliza Doolittle, the smudged Cockney flower girl who is transformed by the demanding speech lessons of Professor Henry Higgins to a radiant lady from a draggletailed guttersnipe.
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Ms. Howes toured Britain in 1973 in “The King and I,” and the United States in 1978 in “The Sound of Music.” In the 1970s and 1980s, she sang operettas like “Blossom Time” and “The Merry Widow” in American regional theaters. A half-century after her triumph as Eliza Doolittle, Ms. Howes toured the United States in 2007 in “My Fair Lady,” playing Mrs. Higgins, the mother of Henry Higgins. It was her 64th year in show business.
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