Actress. Gloria Talbott received stardom status in the mid-20th century as an American actress of the big screen and television. Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, a city co-founded by her great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Nye Patterson, she entered her acting career as a child, performing in films such as "Maytime" in 1937 at age six years old, "Sweet and Low-down" in 1944, and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" in 1945. A dark-haired beauty, with dark cat eyes, and pointed features, she was "Miss Glendale" in 1947. While at Glendale High School, she received acting awards and after school, formed a drama group. In November of 1948, she was in the cast of "One Fine Day", a comedy presented on stage at the Biltmore Theater in Los Angeles. She worked steady in films in the 1950s but mainly in B movies. In 1955 she appeared in the films, "Crashout," Humphrey Bogart's comedy "We're No Angels," "Lucy Gallant," and "All That Heaven Allows." She had as role in "The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm" in 1957. She became known as a "scream queen," after appearing in a number of low-budgeted horror-science fiction films, including "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" and "The Cyclops" in 1957, "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" in 1958, and "The Leech Woman" in 1960. Her final Hollywood film was in 1966, "An Eye for An Eye." Among her many television appearances, she had roles in two episodes of "Gunsmoke," "Cody's Code" in 1962, and "The Cousin" in 1963. In "Rawhide," she appeared in "The Incident of the Calico Gun" in 1959, "Incident of the Broken Word" in 1960, and "Prairie Elephant" in 1961. As an accomplished equestrian, riding horses in Westerns came easy for her. From 1961 to 1966, she appeared in four episodes of "Perry Mason." She married four times and had a child with her first and third husbands. She and her fourth husband, Dr. Patrick Mullally, married in 1970 and remained married for thirty years until her death.
Actress. Gloria Talbott received stardom status in the mid-20th century as an American actress of the big screen and television. Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, a city co-founded by her great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Nye Patterson, she entered her acting career as a child, performing in films such as "Maytime" in 1937 at age six years old, "Sweet and Low-down" in 1944, and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" in 1945. A dark-haired beauty, with dark cat eyes, and pointed features, she was "Miss Glendale" in 1947. While at Glendale High School, she received acting awards and after school, formed a drama group. In November of 1948, she was in the cast of "One Fine Day", a comedy presented on stage at the Biltmore Theater in Los Angeles. She worked steady in films in the 1950s but mainly in B movies. In 1955 she appeared in the films, "Crashout," Humphrey Bogart's comedy "We're No Angels," "Lucy Gallant," and "All That Heaven Allows." She had as role in "The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm" in 1957. She became known as a "scream queen," after appearing in a number of low-budgeted horror-science fiction films, including "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" and "The Cyclops" in 1957, "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" in 1958, and "The Leech Woman" in 1960. Her final Hollywood film was in 1966, "An Eye for An Eye." Among her many television appearances, she had roles in two episodes of "Gunsmoke," "Cody's Code" in 1962, and "The Cousin" in 1963. In "Rawhide," she appeared in "The Incident of the Calico Gun" in 1959, "Incident of the Broken Word" in 1960, and "Prairie Elephant" in 1961. As an accomplished equestrian, riding horses in Westerns came easy for her. From 1961 to 1966, she appeared in four episodes of "Perry Mason." She married four times and had a child with her first and third husbands. She and her fourth husband, Dr. Patrick Mullally, married in 1970 and remained married for thirty years until her death.
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