Country Singer. A child star who was able to parlay early success into a long musical career, she is probably best remembered for her appearances on Tennessee Ernie Ford's national television show. Born Molly Gene Beachboard, she was raised in a succession of places, first in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, then Tucson, and from age 11 on in Los Angeles where she first attracted attention. Molly auditioned for Rex Allen with a rendition of "Lovesick Blues" and became a regular on his local radio show, then on television's "Hometown Jamboree". She appeared frequently on the "Pinky Lee Show", at 13 signed with Capitol Records, and in 1952 had her first and probably biggest hit with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", her later successes including "Young Romance", "5 Points of a Star", and "Don't Look Back". In 1953, Molly sang the duet "Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford" with Tennessee Ernie Ford and became a frequent guest on his daytime television show, her yodeling always a popular part of the act. She graduated from Hollywood Professional High School, then in the 1960s branched out into film and stage performance, among her movies the 1960 "Chartroose Caboose" and 1963's "The Young Swingers". She became a regular in Las Vegas, toured with Bob Hope's USO shows, dropped from view in the late 1960s, then re-emerged with the 1975 LP "Good Golly Ms. Molly". Her final album, "Sounds Fine To Me", was released in 1982. Her personal life, which included half-a-dozen or so marriages, was sometimes turbulent, but she continued frequent concert performances, albeit in much smaller venues than those which she had played in her prime. From the early 1990s on, she ran her own eponymous restaurant and night club in Oceanside and off stage used the name Molly Muncy. At her death from a stroke, much of her recorded legacy remained in print; looking back at her life she often said "I've done it all, and lived to tell about it".