Amanda Blake (February 20 1929–August 16 1989), was an American actress.

Born in Buffalo, New York, she was a telephone operator before taking up acting. She became best known for her 19-year role as Kitty Russell on the long-running series Gunsmoke. Miss Kitty was owner/operator of the Long Branch Saloon from which she dispensed wisdom, whiskey, and an ongoing-nongoing mystery relationship with Dodge City Marshall Matt Dillon (played by James Arness).

She died in Sacramento, California of AIDS-related throat cancer.

External links

• Amanda Blake (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086469/) at the Internet Movie Database