Career
During the 1950s and 1960s, Kobe made dozens of guest appearances on such television programs as Felony Squad, Ironside, The Outer Limits, Hogan's Heroes, The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables and Mannix.
In "Gun Duel" (December 25, 1962), Kobe played a saloon girl, Lottie Harris, on the NBC western series, Laramie. In the story line, series character Jess Harper, played by Robert Fuller, is the weekend deputy while Sheriff Mort Corey (Stuart Randall) is away on business. Mort's newly-married nephew, Johnny Hartley, played by Ben Cooper, wants to become a deputy too but finds he is unsuited for the work only after nearly getting killed by gunshot from two bank robbers, played by DeForest Kelley and Richard Devon. Lottie Harris had hoped to marry a third bank robber, who had promised to take her to California. In a dramatic scene, Jess Harper advises Lottie to stop gazing out the hotel window at the dusty Laramie street and to look instead in the mirror to overcome her own weaknesses.
Kobe had a six month role as Doris Schuster on ABC's Peyton Place, and a recurring role on the CBS western, Trackdown, starring Robert Culp and Ellen Corby.
She appeared on daytime television in Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–1972). In 1969, she was cast as the guest star, Evelyn on Season 5 of ABC's Bewitched.
Kobe began to work behind the camera as supervising producer and associate producer on such daytime programs as CBS's The Edge of Night and ABC's Return to Peyton Place. In 1981, during its final year on the air, Kobe became executive producer of the NBC soap opera, Texas. From 1982 to 1986, she was the executive producer of CBS's Guiding Light and then served as a producer on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful from its debut in 1987 through the early 1990s.
In 2008, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, Walk of Stars was dedicated in Kobe's honor.
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