Natalie Wood (1938 – 1981) with playboy Nicky Hilton (1926 – 1969), before marrying Robert Wagner (1930 – ) on 28 December 1957.
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Posts Tagged ‘1950s hollywood’
Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter
In 1938, American on June 11, 2018 at 12:21 pm
Natalie Wood with Tab Hunter, Warner Brothers stablemate and her co-star in The Burning Hills and The Girl He Left Behind (both 1956).
Valerie French
In 1928, British on May 30, 2018 at 12:42 pm
Valerie French (1928 – 1990): British-born actress, on screen 1953 – 1982.
Peggie Castle
In 1925, American on May 29, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Peggie Castle: born Peggy Blair 22 December 1925, Appalachia Virginia; on-screen 1950 – 1966; died 1973 cirrhosis of the liver.
Patricia Blair
In 1933, American on May 29, 2018 at 2:17 pm
Patricia Blair (1933 – 2013) American actress who played resourceful women in 1960s television westerns including “Daniel Boone” and “The Rifleman.”
Natalie Wood
In 1938, American on May 27, 2018 at 10:31 am
Natalie Wood (20 July 1938 – 29 November 1981) in 1958.
Natalie Wood 1956
In 1938, American on May 27, 2018 at 4:22 am
Natalie Wood (1938 – 1981): American movie actress of the 1950s and 1960s.
Natalie Wood modeling
In 1938, American on May 27, 2018 at 4:02 am
Natalie Wood (1938 – 1981): American movie actress of the 1950s and 1960s.
Mamie Van Doren
In 1931, American on May 19, 2018 at 2:04 pm
Mamie Van Doren: born Joan Lucille Olander 1931, discovered by Howard Hughes when she won Miss Palm Springs 1949.
Bella Darvi (1928 – 1971)
In 1928, Polish on May 17, 2018 at 12:51 pm
Bella Darvi: Polish actress born Bajla Węgier 23 October 1928, Sosnowiec Poland; died 11 September 1971, age 42, Monte Carlo Monaco; suicide.
Darvi had already survived a NAZI concentration camp, post-war poverty and a marriage when producer Daryl F. Zanuck “discovered” her at a Monte Carlo casino and took her back to Hollywood as his mistress and movie ingenue. In Hollywood 1954 – 1962, she returned to Europe after Zanuck dumped her.
Returning to gambling and increasingly turning to alcohol, she gassed herself in her Monte Carlo apartment. She had been dead for a week when her body was discovered.
