Her family was impoverished and her parents divorced early on. Young Lois used make-believe to escape her reality by creating small plays in her backyard which led to an affinity with the idea of acting. Having set her sights on the stage she joined a community theatre at the tender age of eleven and appeared on local radio and television.
She later continued her training at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and then studied 'the method' at the Actors' Studio in New York City, eventually making her Broadway debut in Dalton Trumbo 's "The Biggest Thief in Town" using the stage moniker "Lydia Scott" her given name, she felt, was too plain and sounded "schoolmarmy". Occasionally, she got to play "Maggie", herself. Not surprisingly then, that the self-confessed method actress went on to win the prestigious Clarence Derwent Award for her performance in "God and Kate Murphy".
Lois was married for seven years to Jean Shepherd , the radio host and television humorist. She and Shepherd clicked after she called his nightly radio show at WOR in the s and the beguiled Shepherd broadcast their telephone conversations on the air.
They later appeared together in Shepherd's off-Broadway play "Look Charlie" in Shepherd even broadcast their telephone conversations on the air.
They appeared together in Shepherd's off-Broadway play "Look Charlie" in and were married a year later. In , they divorced and she never remarried. Delonia Cantrell. Ellen Blazeford. Mary Anderson. Jennifer Clifton.
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