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Patty McCormack

Wikipedia:

“began her career as a child actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance as Rhoda Penmark in Maxwell Anderson’s 1956 psychological drama The Bad Seed. She received critical acclaim for the role on Broadway and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Mervyn LeRoy’s film adaptation. Her acting career has continued with both starring and supporting roles in film and television, including Helen Keller in the original Playhouse 90 production of The Miracle Worker, Jeffrey Tambor’s wife Anne Brookes on the ABC sitcom The Ropers, Adriana La Cerva’s mother in The Sopranos, and as Pat Nixon in Frost/Nixon (2008).”

McCormack was born in New York City on August 21, 1945, as Patricia Ellen Russo. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she took on her maternal grandmother’s surname. Her father, Frank Russo, was a fireman and a friend of Walter Matthau; as a favor to Frank, Matthau secured McCormack a deal with his agent, Leonard Hirshan, when she was a teenager.

McCormack made her motion-picture debut in Two Gals and a Guy (1951) and appeared as Ingeborg in the television series Mama with Peggy Wood from 1953 to 1956. Her Broadway debut was in Touchstone (1953), and the following year, she originated the role of Rhoda Penmark, an eight-year-old psychopath and fledgling serial killer, in the original stage version of Maxwell Anderson’s The Bad Seed (1954) with Nancy Kelly. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film version (1956). She portrayed Helen Keller in the original 1957 Playhouse 90 production of William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker opposite Teresa Wright.

In 1959 she was in an episode of One Step Beyond called “Make Me Not a Witch”. She had the role of a pampered child star in the 1958 comedy Kathy O’ and recorded the title song for Dot Records. McCormack briefly starred in her own series, Peck’s Bad Girl, with Marsha Hunt and Wendell Corey in 1959, and had a leading role in MGM’s remake of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Eddie Hodges. In the early 1960s, she starred in a series of popular teenage delinquent films, including The Explosive Generation with William Shatner and The Young Runaways. In 1962, she portrayed Julie Cannon in the Rawhide episode “Incident of the Wolvers” ; she appeared on the show again the following year, playing Sarah Higgins in the episode “Incident at Paradise”.

After a half-dozen teen roles during the 1960s, her film career gradually declined, but she continued to work in television. In 1970, she played Linda Warren on the soap opera The Best of Everything. She guest-starred on The Streets of San Francisco, season two, episode “Blockade”. She also portrayed a San Francisco paramedic on the season-seven Emergency! series episodes “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing…?” and “The Convention”. She resumed her cinema career with Bug in 1975. She played advertising executive Beth Donaldson in “The Little People” episode of “The Love Boat” which aired on 11/24/1978.

McCormack held several recurring roles in popular television series, including Dallas, Murder, She Wrote, and The Sopranos. McCormack also starred as Anne Brookes, the wife of Jeffrey P. Brookes III (played by Jeffrey Tambor) on the ABC television series The Ropers, a spin-off of Three’s Company starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley, from 1979 to 1980. When Kathryn Hays left the CBS soap opera As the World Turns for an extended period, McCormack took Hays’ role until she returned. She starred as a psychotic mother in the cult thriller Mommy and its 1997 sequel Mommy 2: Mommy’s Day. In 2008, McCormack played First Lady Pat Nixon in the feature film Frost/Nixon.

 

McCormack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for The Bad Seed. On March 20, 1956, she received the Milky Way “Gold Star Award” as the most outstanding juvenile performer, in which Sal Mineo was placed third and Tommy Rettig second.

Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard. She received the star in 1960 aged 15, making her the youngest honoree on the Walk.”

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Darlene Gillespie

Wikipedia:

“(born April 8, 1941) is a Canadian-American former child actress, most remembered as a singer and dancer on the original The Mickey Mouse Club television series from 1955 to 1959. After her career in entertainment ended, she became a nurse.”

“Gillespie auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club in March 1955. She originally auditioned as a dancer, but she sung “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” and was hired. She was the leading female singer of the Mouseketeers (opposite the leading male singer Tommy Cole), and appeared on the program for all three seasons of its original run.

As a Mouseketeer, Gillespie was described as being “a vibrant, freckle-faced youngster with more bounce to the ounce than a bottle of soda pop”. She was known for her singing talents, dancing, comedy sketches, and her country-inspired singing performances.

In the first season, she starred in the serial Corky and White Shadow (1956) with Buddy Ebsen and Lloyd Corrigan. The 17-episode serial introduced Gillespie as the female teenage heroine Corky Brady, accompanied by a white German Shepherd. A number of songs were incorporated into the plot to showcase young Gillespie’s singing talents, most notably “My Pa” and “Uncle Dan”.

The second season opened with The Amusement Park showpiece, featuring Gillespie and Bobby Burgess. It was considered a surprise for touching on teen romance and even more so for celebrating a non-Disney amusement park. However throughout the second season, Mouseketeer Annette Funicello was becoming a rising star, promoted by Walt Disney [Walt really seemed to like Annette!} himself, which shifted the viewer’s attention from Gillespie to Funicello by 1958.

The third season opened with The Pet Shop showpiece, featuring Gillespie with Lonnie Burr, Bobby Burgess, and Tommy Cole. In the Fun With Music Day episode Blind Date, Gillespie stars in a comedic role as a Geeky teenager waiting for her date. During the third season, Gillespie appeared in the serial The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957) with Tim Considine and David Stollery, and was cast in a secondary role as Annette’s friend.

The serial Annette (1958) was meant to star Gillespie in a co-leading role, originally titled Annette and Darlene. However, for reasons unknown, Gillespie was recast and replaced by Judy Nugent as Annette’s friend Jet.

In 1957, Gillespie was cast as Dorothy Gale in a musical number from the proposed live-action Disney film The Rainbow Road to Oz on an episode of the Disneyland television series in September 1957. The movie was never made.

After The Mickey Mouse Club stopped filming in 1959, and her contract with Disney was not renewed, Gillespie’s short acting career neared its end. Her last television appearance was as Beth Brian in the 1962 episode “The Star” of the NBC family drama series National Velvet starring Lori Martin as a budding thoroughbred rider.

Gillespie made many recordings under various Disney labels, including an album of 1950s rock and roll standards, Darlene of the Teens (1957).

Gillespie recorded albums for Disney animated films, in which she sang and narrated stories such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Many of Gillespie’s recordings sold for decades, a testimony to her remarkable singing voice and talents.

In the late 1980s, Gillespie began a legal battle against Disney and the Screen Actors Guild for royalties and residual payments for record sales and reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club. Gillespie had previously sustained a back injury from a fall that ended her medical career as a nurse. This legal battle strained her relationship with her former Mouseketeers castmates.

She was banned from participating in the 40th anniversary Mickey Mouse Club documentary because of her criticisms of Disney and Funicello.

Following The Mickey Mouse Club, Gillespie finished high school at Providence High in Burbank. She later graduated from University with a nursing degree, specializing in heart surgery. She devoted her adult life in the medical field as a nurse.

In 1997, she was charged with petty theft for helping her then-fiancé Jerry Fraschilla shoplift four women’s shirts. She was found guilty and sentenced to three days in jail and three years’ probation. Gillespie, then 56 years old, denied the charges and filed preliminary papers to appeal. The disposition is unclear.

In December 1998, she was convicted in federal court of aiding her third husband, Fraschilla, to purchase securities using a check-kiting scheme. She was sentenced to two years in prison, but was released after serving only three months.

In 2005, she and her husband were indicted on federal charges of filing multiple fraudulent claims in the settlement of a class-action lawsuit. The charges have since been dropped.”

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Wikipedia:

“Connie Stevens

is an American actress and singer. Born in Brooklyn to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until the age of 12, when she was sent to live with family friends in rural Missouri. In 1953, when she was 15 years old, Stevens relocated with her father to Los Angeles.

She began her career in 1957, making her feature film debut in Young and Dangerous, before releasing her debut album, Concetta, the following year. She had a supporting role in the musical comedy Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) opposite Jerry Lewis, followed by the drama film The Party Crashers (also 1958) opposite Frances Farmer.

Stevens gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of “Cricket” Blake on the ABC TV Warner Brothers series Hawaiian Eye, beginning in 1959 opposite Robert Conrad and Anthony Eisley. She garnered concurrent musical success when her single “Sixteen Reasons” became a national radio hit, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1960. Stevens continued to appear in film and television throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as well as performing as a musical nightclub act.

Stevens’ later film roles include in the comedy Tapeheads (1988) and the drama Love Is All There Is (1996). In 2009, Stevens made her directorial debut with the feature film Saving Grace B. Jones, which she also wrote and produced, based partly on elements of her own childhood.”

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Noreen & Donna Corcoran:

Noreen:

Wikipedia:

“Noreen Corcoran

was an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Gregg in the American sitcom television series Bachelor Father.

She attended Fresno State University from 1962–1964, but did not graduate.

Corcoran began acting in 1951, appearing in the film Apache Drums, playing the role of the Child.

She also had roles in Dr. Kildare, Hans Christian Andersen, Channing, Gidget Goes to Rome, Cavalcade of America, Mr. Novak, and So This Is Love.

Ronald Reagan recommended Corcoran for the role of Kelly Gregg on the new CBS television series Bachelor Father. The series, about a wealthy bachelor raising his orphaned niece, ran from 1957 to 1962.

Corcoran’s last role was in the television series The Big Valley.

After retiring from acting, Corcoran worked at the Lewitzky Dance Company for over a decade. Ms. Corcoran never married or had children. She died on January 15, 2016, of cardiopulmonary disease in Van Nuys, California, at the age of 72.”

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Donna:

Wikipedia:

“Donna Corcoran

is an American former child actress who appeared in nine Hollywood films from 1951 through 1955. She was in two aquatic musicals that featured Esther Williams (portraying swimmer Annette Kellerman as a child in one), and as a vulnerable girl being victimized by an emotionally disturbed babysitter (played by Marilyn Monroe) in Don’t Bother to Knock.

After making her last film, she made a token comeback as a young adult in an episode of the long-running sitcom My Three Sons (starring Fred MacMurray) in the early 1960s.”

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Wikipedia:

“Darla Hood

was an American child actress, best known as the female lead in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. As an adult, she performed as a singer in nightclubs and on television.

Hood was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of music teacher Elizabeth Davner, and James Claude Hood, who worked in a bank. Her mother introduced her to singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Just after her third birthday she was taken to New York City, where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test. She was hired and went to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang series.

Hood used her real name in the series except for her debut, in which her character’s name was “Cookie”. She made her debut at age four in the 1935 film Our Gang Follies of 1936 and was soon given a role in The Bohemian Girl with Laurel and Hardy. From 1935 through 1941, she continued to play in Our Gang. She is well remembered for her coquettish character, typically the love interest of Alfalfa, Butch, or (occasionally) Waldo. One of her most memorable moments was singing “I’m in the Mood for Love” in The Pinch Singer.

Hood’s final Our Gang appearance was at age 10 in 1941’s Wedding Worries.

When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, Hood appeared in several other movies and attended school in Los Angeles. While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. Shortly after graduation, the quintet was booked by producer and vaudeville star Ken Murray for his famous “Blackouts”, a stage variety show. The group remained with Murray’s Blackouts during its long run in New York City and Hollywood.

Hood went solo with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV. The deep, rich voice she developed as an adult was a striking contrast to the child singing most of the public remembered. She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. In 1957, Hood was a regular performer on The Merv Griffin Show for the American Broadcasting Network. Other credits that year include a hit record, “I Just Wanna Be Free.” and a duet with Johnny Desmond in the Sam Katzman movie Calypso Heat Wave. Between 1959 and 1962 ,she recorded several singles for the small Ray Note and Acama labels.

In January 1959, Hood released a new record, “My Quiet Village” (Ray Note Records). Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover and cast her in her final film role —her first adult role in a movie— playing a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.

Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as You Bet Your Life and The Jack Benny Program, where she appeared on October 30, 1962 as “Darla” in a spoof of the Our Gang comedies with Jack Benny (who appeared as Alfalfa). She appeared in her own nightclub act at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Copacabana in New York, and the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hood was married twice, first to singer and insurance salesman Robert W. Decker (1949–1957), then to record-company executive Jose Granson (1957–1979). Tommy “Butch” Bond mentioned that her marriage to Granson was difficult because he used a wheelchair following a stroke.

Hood was busy organizing the 1980 Little Rascals reunion for the Los Angeles chapter of The Sons of the Desert when she underwent an appendectomy at Canoga Park Hospital, Canoga Park, California. After the procedure, she died unexpectedly of heart failure on June 13, 1979, at age 47. An autopsy disclosed that Hood had contracted Hepatitis from a contaminated blood transfusion given during the operation which led to her death.

Upon learning of Hood’s death, fellow Our Gang member Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas said “I hate to hear it. It’s a shock. She was an awfully nice person, a fine woman. We got along real good as kids.” Thomas died a little over a year later. Our Gang members Matthew “Stymie” Beard and Mickey Laughlin attended her funeral. ”

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Wikipedia:

“Tuesday Weld

 is an American former actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.

Weld often portrayed impulsive and reckless women and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Play It as It Lays (1972), an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent (1983), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Since the late 1980s, her acting appearances have been infrequent, and she has not been credited in any productions since Ethan Hawke’s Chelsea Walls in 2001.

 

 

Left in financial difficulty by her husband’s death, Weld’s mother put Weld to work as a model to support the family. As the young actress told Life in 1971:

 

Weld’s mother secured her an agent using her résumé from modeling. She made her acting debut on television at the age of 12, and her feature film debut that year in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama The Wrong Man.

In 1956 Weld played the lead in Rock, Rock, Rock, which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette. In the film Connie Francis performed the vocals for Weld’s singing parts.

 

Weld was cast in a supporting role in the Paul Newman–Joanne Woodward comedy Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), made by 20th Century Fox. At Paramount Pictures, Weld was in The Five Pennies (1959), playing the daughter of Danny Kaye, who called Weld “15 going on 27”. She guest-starred a number of times on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–59). She appeared in 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., in the 1959 episode, “Secret Island”.

Weld’s performance in Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! impressed executives at Fox, who signed her to a long-term contract. They cast her in the CBS television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, with a salary of $35,000 for one year. Weld played Thalia Menninger, the love interest of Dobie Gillis (played by Dwayne Hickman), whose rivals for Thalia’s affection included Milton Armitage (played by Warren Beatty). Although Weld was a cast member for only one season, the show created considerable national publicity for her, and she was named a co-winner of a “Most Promising Newcomer” award at the Golden Globe Awards.

At Columbia, she had a leading role in a teen film, Because They’re Young (1960), starring Dick Clark. She was second billed in Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) made by Albert Zugsmith at Allied Artists. She made a second film for Zugsmith, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, made in 1959 but not released for two years.

She guest starred on The Red Skelton Hour in “Appleby: The Big Producer” (1959) and on 77 Sunset Strip (1959) and The Millionaire (1960).

At Fox, she played Joy, a free-spirited university student in High Time, starring Bing Crosby and Fabian Forte. She sang a love song to Fabian in the season opener of NBC’s The Dinah Shore Chevy Show on October 9, 1960. Four weeks later, on November 13, Weld returned to the network as a guest star in NBC’s The Tab Hunter Show. She guested in “The Mormons” for Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

For Fox, Weld had a supporting role in the sequel Return to Peyton Place (1961), in the part played by Hope Lange in the original. Her portrayal of an incest victim was well received, but the film was less successful than its predecessor. She supported Elvis Presley in Wild in the Country (1962), along with Lange. Weld had an off-screen romance with Presley.

Fox also used her as a guest star on Follow the Sun (“The Highest Wall”) and Adventures in Paradise (“The Velvet Trap”). On November 12, 1961, she played a singer, Cherie, in the seventh episode of ABC’s television series Bus Stop, produced by Fox, with Marilyn Maxwell and Gary Lockwood. It was an adaptation of the play by William Inge, with Weld in the role originated on screen by Marilyn Monroe.

Weld supported Terry-Thomas in the Frank Tashlin comedy Bachelor Flat (1962), for Fox. Following the film’s release, she appeared on What’s My Line? as the celebrity mystery guest.

Weld’s mother was scandalized by her teen daughter’s love affairs with older men, such as actor John Ireland, but Weld resisted, saying, “‘If you don’t leave me alone, I’ll quit being an actress—which means there ain’t gonna be no more money for you, Mama’. Finally, when I was sixteen, I left home. I just went out the door and bought my own house”.

She was Stanley Kubrick’s first choice to play the role of Lolita in his 1962 film, but she turned the offer down, saying: “I didn’t have to play it. I was Lolita”.

Weld took three months off to go to Greenwich Village in New York and “study myself”. Then she starred along with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in Soldier in the Rain, written by Blake Edwards from a novel by William Goldman, but the film was only a minor success.

She won excellent reviews for a February 7, 1962, episode in the Naked City, “A Case Study of Two Savages”, adapted from the real-life case of backwood killers Charles Starkweather (played by Rip Torn) and Ora Mae Youngham, (played by Weld), Starkweather’s young bride, on a homicidal spree ending in New York City. She guest starred on Route 66 in “Love Is a Skinny Kid” (1962), Ben Casey in “When You See an Evil Man” (1962), and The Dick Powell Theatre in “A Time to Die” (1962) and “Run Till It’s Dark” with Fabian (1962).

In 1963 Weld guest-starred as Denise Dunlear in The Eleventh Hour, in the episode “Something Crazy’s Going on in the Back Room” alongside Angela Lansbury. She was in “The Legend of Lylah Clare” for The DuPont Show of the Week (1963), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

In 1964 she appeared in the title role of the episode “Keep an Eye on Emily” on Craig Stevens’s CBS drama, Mr. Broadway. In the same year, she appeared as a troubled blind woman in “Dark Corner”, an episode of The Fugitive.

She appeared with her former co-star Dwayne Hickman in Jack Palance’s circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth on ABC, in separate episodes.

Weld supported Bob Hope in the comedy I’ll Take Sweden (1965).

Weld appeared in 1965 in the successful Norman Jewison film The Cincinnati Kid, opposite Steve McQueen. There was some controversy when she refused to meet the local governor at a fund-raiser for hurricane victims, jumping out of a car in view of 70,000 people. The film was a big hit.

Weld got a star role in Lord Love a Duck (1966), with Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, and Harvey Korman. Weld received excellent reviews, but the film was a box office disappointment.

She followed it playing Abigail in a TV adaptation of The Crucible (1967), opposite George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. After guest starring on Cimarron Strip (1967), Weld had the starring role in Pretty Poison (1968), co-starring Anthony Perkins. The film became a cult success, but she disliked the film and did not get on with director Noel Black.

Around this time, Weld became famous for turning down roles in films that succeeded at the box office, such as Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary’s Baby, True Grit, Cactus Flower, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. In a 1971 interview with the New York Times, Weld explained that she had chosen to reject these roles precisely because she believed they would be commercial successes: “Do you think I want a success? I refused ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ because I was nursing at the time, but also because deep down I knew it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of ‘Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue’ or whatever it was called. It reeked of success”.

The films Weld did make included I Walk the Line (1970), opposite Gregory Peck; A Safe Place (1971), co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles and directed by Henry Jaglom, and Play It as It Lays (1972), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Weld began to work again in television, starring in Reflections of Murder (1974) and F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975) in which she played Zelda Fitzgerald.

Weld attracted attention as the favored, out-of-control Katherine in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)—packing into her short screen time an orgy, a divorce, a lot of alcohol, and two abortions—and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; later she appeared in Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978) opposite Nick Nolte; and the ensemble satire Serial (1980).

She said she preferred television. “What I dig about TV is the pace”, she said. “Two weeks for even a heavy part – great. Too much thinking about a role is a disaster for me. I mean, let’s do it, let’s get it done.”

She played the lead in the TV films A Question of Guilt (1978), in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children, Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980), a remake of Madame X (1981), and a new version of The Rainmaker (1982).

In feature films, Weld had a good supporting role in Michael Mann’s acclaimed 1981 film Thief, opposite James Caan. She played Al Pacino’s wife in Author! Author! (1982) and co-starred with Donald Sutherland in the TV film The Winter of Our Discontent (1983). This performance earned her an Emmy nomination.

In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone’s gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, playing a jeweler’s secretary, who is in on a plan to steal a shipment of diamonds. During the robbery, her character goads Robert De Niro’s character, David “Noodles” Aaronson, into “raping” her with her complicity. She later meets up with the gang from the robbery, and becomes the moll of James Woods’ character Max Bercovicz. Disturbed by what she sees as Max’s delusional, even suicidal, ambitions, she convinces Noodles to betray Max to the police. The performance earned Weld a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress of 1984.

On TV, Weld was in Scorned and Swindled (1984), Circle of Violence (1986) and Something in Common (1986). She had a supporting role in Heartbreak Hotel (1988).

Weld was reunited with Anthony Perkins in an episode of Mistress of Suspense (1990).

In 1993, she played a police officer’s neurotic wife in Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. She had small supporting roles in Feeling Minnesota (1996), Investigating Sex (2001), and Chelsea Walls (2001).

Weld has been married three times. She was married to screenwriter Claude Harz from October 23, 1965, until their divorce on February 18, 1971. They had a daughter, Natasha, born on August 26, 1966. Weld was awarded custody of Natasha in the divorce and $100 a month in child support payments.

She married British actor, musician and comedian Dudley Moore on September 20, 1975. On February 26, 1976, they had a son, Patrick. The couple divorced in 1980, with Weld receiving a $200,000 settlement plus $3,000 monthly alimony for the next 4 years and an additional $2,500 a month in child support.

On October 18, 1985, she married Israeli concert violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman, becoming stepmother to his daughters Arianna and Natalia. The couple divorced in 2001. In court papers, Zukerman quoted Weld as saying, “Why do I need to go to another concert when I’ve heard the piece before?” and “I can’t stand the backstage scene. I don’t want to hear another note.”

Between marriages, Weld dated Al Pacino, David Steinberg, Mikhail Baryshnikov (whose previous girlfriend, Jessica Lange, had been Weld’s best friend), Omar Sharif, Richard Gere and Ryan O’Neal.

Weld sold her beach house in Montauk, New York, in the late 2000s and moved to Carbondale, Colorado. In 2018, she left Colorado and bought a $1.8 million home in the Hollywood Hills.”

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Wikipedia:

Born

Roberta Shore

April 7, 1943 (age 81)
Monterey Park, California, U.S

“Roberta Shore

is a retired American actress and performer. She is notable for her roles in the original Shaggy Dog film and as Betsy Garth on the Western television series The Virginian. Shore broke her contract to focus on her marriage and family, retiring at the age of 22. She lives in Utah.

Shore co-starred in several Walt Disney productions featuring the Mouseketeers, thus came to be associated with them. (She auditioned as a Mouseketeer, but was turned down because she was taller than most of the cast at the time.) She appeared as Annette Funicello’s rival Laura Rogan in Annette’s self-titled series and as French-speaking Franceska in The Shaggy Dog (1959). In 1964, she voiced a Swiss yodeler for the attraction “it’s a small world”.

Aside from Disney, Shore had a featured role in the 1959 screen version of Blue Denim, duetting with Warren Berlinger, and an uncredited cameo appearance in A Summer Place as Sandra Dee’s gossipy schoolmate Anne Talbert. Later, she played Ricky Summers in the 1960 movie Because They’re Young, Jenny Bell in The Young Savages (1961), and in an uncredited role as Lorna in Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 version of Lolita.

Shore’s television credits include appearances on Playhouse 90, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, The Lawrence Welk Show (a singing appearance in 1959), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, several Western series including Maverick, Wagon Train, The Tall Man, Laramie, and Lawman, and regular roles on Father Knows Best and The New Bob Cummings Show. Most notably, Shore was featured in the first four seasons of The Virginian as Betsy Garth, the daughter of Shiloh Ranch owner Judge Garth, played by Lee J. Cobb.

At the age of 22, Shore broke her contract to focus on her marriage and family. After her marriage, Shore and her husband moved to Utah, where she has lived ever since. ”

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Wikipedia:

“Beverly Washburn

was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1943. She is best known for her roles in the Walt Disney drama Old Yeller (1957), and the American General Pictures horror Spider Baby (1967).

Washburn began her career as a child actor, when she was three years old, appearing in The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) and Frank Capra’s Here Comes the Groom (1951). Her subsequent film credits included a supporting role in the Walt Disney feature Old Yeller (1957), for which she is the last surviving cast member of the film. By age 16, she had appeared in 10 films and more than 500 television programs.

On television, Washburn portrayed Kathryn “Kit” Wilson, on Professional Father, Shirley Mitchell on Gidget, and Vickie Massey on The New Loretta Young Show. She was also seen regularly on A Letter to Loretta,? and The Loretta Young Theater.?

Washburn is the author of Reel Tears: The Beverly Washburn Story, Take Two, which BearManor Media re-released in 2013.”

 

This article is neither comprehensive nor definitive, only a good sampling of what’s out there.

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