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Shelley Fabares
Pretty Shelley Fabares is better known for her prolific work on television, but she did act in several films in the 1960s, including Ride the Wild Surf (1964; with Tab Hunter and Fabian) and Hold On! (1966; with Peter Noone and Sue Ane Langdon). She acted in three Elvis Presley films---Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966), and Clambake (1967)---and was one of Presley's favorite co-stars. From 1964 to 1967, Fabares was married to famed pop music producer Lou Adler. Since 1984, Fabares has been married to actor/producer Mike Farrell.
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Jinx Falkenburg
Exotic beauty Jinx Falkenburg was a top model before making a splash in films in the 1940s in such films as Two Latins from Manhattan (1941) and The Gay Senorita (1945). However, after just a few years of appearing in films, Falkenburg married and left the silver screen for the then-new medium of television. She also popped up on TV game shows from time to time in the 1950s and 1960s. Sadly, Falkenburg passed away in 2003.
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Frances Farmer
Glamorous Frances Farmer found early success in Hollywood, only to lead a life of tragedy later. Born in Seattle, Washington, to well-to-do parents, Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington. Upon her graduation, she went to Hollywood and was put under contract to Paramount Studios. That same year, she married fellow Paramount contract player Leif Ericson. Farmer's early films were very successful, but she proved to be too difficult for Paramount studio brass, who dropped her contract in 1940. Her marriage to Ericson quickly withered as well, and the couple divorced in 1942; Ericson married another Paramount contract player, Margaret Hayes, on the same day his divorce from Farmer was final. Later that year, Farmer was arrested for drunk driving, and her angry behavior during the arrest eventually led her parents to commit her to a sanitarium, where she suffered many indignities and a partial lobotomy. Farmer was released in the early 1950s and returned home to care for her parents until their deaths. She remarried in 1951, but the marriage had crumbled by the late 1950s. Farmer attempted to resume her acting career, taking roles on television shows such as Studio One and Special Agent 7. She made one more film, The Party Crashers, in 1958. Upon divorcing her second husband, Farmer married again and moved to Indianapolis, where she hosted a local television show for a number of years. Sadly, she passed away from cancer in 1970 at the age of 56.
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Sally Forrest
Lovely Sally Forrest appeared in a few post-war films as a dancer, but she soon switched to acting, taking a few small roles until she was offered the lead part in the Ida Lupino-directed tearjerker Not Wanted (1949). Although Not Wanted was an independent film, it garnered great reviews and launched Forrest's career. Eventually, she signed with MGM to make a string of films, sometimes with her frequent co-star Keefe Brasselle. In 1951, Forrest appeared in seven films, and that same year she married stage producer Milo Frank. Her marriage heralded the beginning of the end of her film career; afterward, she chose Broadway instead and would make only a few more films, in addition to sporadic television appearances. Forrest is now retired.
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Susan Hart
Sexy Susan Hart had only a brief career in films, appearing in Pajama Party, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, and a few others. Hart retired from the screen upon marrying American International producer James H. Nicholson in 1965.
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Tippi Hedren
Alluring Tippi Hedren began her career as a model. She was discovered for films by director Alfred Hitchcock, who saw her in a commerical and cast her in The Birds (1963; with Rod Taylor). She made only a few other film appearances in the 1960s, including the low budget Satan's Harvest (1965; with George Montgomery) and Tiger by the Tail (1968). Few film roles followed in the 1970s, but in the late 1980s Hedren made a comeback and takes on numerous roles today. Hedren's daughter is actress Melanie Griffith.
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Wanda Hendrix
Pretty starlet Wanda Hendrix acted in two dozen or so films from the 1940s through the early 1970s, including quite a few film-noir thrillers. She met World War II hero and western star Audie Murphy while filming Sierra (1950), and the couple married shortly thereafter. However, by the time the film made it to theaters, the marriage had fizzled. Upon marrying her second husband in 1954, Hendrix walked away from acting, only to resurface again in the late 1950s after her second divorce. She worked sporadically through the early 1970s, and then called it a day. Sadly, Hendrix died of pneumonia in 1981 at the age of 52.
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Gloria Hendry
Knockout Gloria Hendry started as a model before moving into films. Although she starred in a string of blacksploitation films, including Hell Up in Harlem (1973; with Fred Williamson), Savage Sisters (1974; with John Ashley and Sid Haig), and Black Belt Jones (1975; with Jim Kelly), Hendry is probably best known for her role as Bond girl Rosie Carver in Live and Let Die (1973; with Roger Moore). Since the late 1970s, Hendry has worked only infrequently in films.
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