Elizabeth Allen (January 25, 1929 – September 19, 2006) was an American actress.

Born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey, she began her career as a Ford Agency high-fashion model before landing the television role of the “Away We Go!” girl on The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s. Thereafter, she honed her stage skills by joining and performing with the Helen Hayes Repertory Group before expanding into the big and small screens. Elizabeth made numerous television appearances in guest starring roles on such programs as Kojak, Columbo, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. She was also a regular cast member on TV's Bracken's World, The Paul Lynde Show, CPO Sharkey, Another World and its spin-off, Texas. Her television, film and stage career spanned three decades.

The coolly attractive actress is perhaps best known on TV for her role as the creepy saleslady in the first-season episode of Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone, entitled The After Hours, where actress Anne Francis (playing 'Miss Marsha White') finally realizes that she is a mannequin and that her month of freedom and living among the humans is over. Allen's saleslady character (seen by no one but Marsha) is the mannequin whose turn in the outside world is up next and has already been delayed by one full day, thus explaining her slightly peeved attitude.

In 1963, Elizabeth starred with John Wayne, Dorothy Lamour and Lee Marvin in the John Ford film Donovan's Reef. She also starred in Diamond Head with Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux. Both movies were filmed on location in Hawaii. Allen also appeared with James Stewart in Cheyenne Autumn and won a Laurel Award in 1963 as the year's most promising film actress.

She was twice nominated for Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in The Gay Life and Do I Hear a Waltz?. She can still be heard today, singing beautifully throughout the original cast album of Waltz, available on CD. Her other notable stage productions on the Great White Way and beyond included Romanoff and Juliet, Lend an Ear, Sherry!, California Suite, The Pajama Game, The Tender Trap, Show Boat, South Pacific, and culminating in the 1980's Broadway musical 42nd Street, as fading star Dorothy Brock.

Allen quietly retired from show business in 1996, after touring numerous cities throughout the world for over a decade with her 42nd Street role from Broadway. This was her last, significant acting job after appearing in the 1980's TV series Texas for two seasons. In 2006, Procter and Gamble began making several of its soaps available through America Online's AOL Video service, downloadable free of charge. Reruns of Texas featuring Allen began with the show's first episode in August 1980.

She was married briefly to Baron Karl von Vietinghoff-Scheel, but they divorced and she never remarried. She died from kidney disease, aged 77, in Fishkill, New York; she was predeceased by her only sibling, brother Joseph L. Gillease, and survived by her sister-in-law, Marion Gillease, her nephew and Godson, Patrick J. Gillease, her niece, Erin Gillease Phelan, and two grand-nieces, Alicia Phelan and Alexandria Phelan.

Elizabeth Allen (sometimes referred to as Liz Allen) is an American director.

She directed the 20th Century Fox film Aquamarine, written by Jon Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger, which is based on the children’s book by best selling author, Alice Hoffman. Aquamarine stars Emma Roberts, Jojo, Sara Paxton and Arielle Kebbel.

Elizabeth Allen’s USC thesis film, Eyeball Eddie stars Michael Rosenbaum, Martin Starr and M. Emmet Walsh and premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2001.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University.

She is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1999 with a Masters of Fine Arts.

She was awarded the Jack Nicholson Directing Scholarship while at USC.

She attended Ward Melville High School.

Graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1999 with a Masters of Fine Arts.

Tall, striking actress who retired in 1980, perhaps best remembered as the strange department store saleswoman in "Twilight Zone, The" (1959) episode featuring Anne Francis (I) as a mannequin who became a live woman for a month.

Is also remembered for her introductions on "Jackie Gleason Show, The" (1966). She was known as "The Away We Go" girl, who every week introduced Jackie's variety skits with that immortal phrase.

Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1962, as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "The Gay Life," and in 1965 as Best Actress (Musical) for Richard Rodgers (I)' "Do I Hear a Waltz?"

She started out as a fashion model with the Ford Modeling Agency. She was a member of the Helen Hayes Repertory Company for several years. Her first starring role on Broadway was Juliet in David Merrick's 1957 production of "Romanoff and Juliet".