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(Verna Charlene Stavely)
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| 28 April 28 |
is born in Snyder, Texas, to Malcolm C. and Verna Vesta Stavely, nee Chandler
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her parents move to Washington
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graduates from high school in Hagerman, New Mexico
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stays with relatives near Snyder, Texas
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| September 44 |
the local press tells from McMurry College that she and Porter Brooks are dating
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after five weeks at McMurray College in Abilene, Texas, her parents ask her to come back to Washington
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starts modeling in Houston, Texas
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| 56 |
is crowned "Miss Maryland," the predecessor of ill-fated Leona Gage
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| July 56 |
attends the "Miss United States" pageant in Long Beach, California
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| August 57 |
is among nine models sent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Rose Marie Reid Swim Suits in Los Angeles and the Eileen Ford agency in Manhattan
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| October 57 |
does TV commercials
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becomes a $50,000-a-year model in New York at age 19
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is spotted in a Revlon lipstick commercial by Howard Hawks
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| October 58 |
is crowned "Miss Sweater Girl" by the Wool Bureau. The contest is held in the Crystal Suite of the Savoy Hilton Hotel in New York.
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| December 61 |
columnist Walter Winchell reports: “Gary Cooper’s pater-in-law, wealthy Paul Shields, who was daffy about Suzy Parker, is daffier about Jean Feldman, who replaced model Charlene Holt...”
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| 63 |
is in the Toni Deep Magic Dry Skin Conditioner commercial
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| July 63 |
Rock Hudson escorts her to Cleopatra. Before the movie, she takes him to the top of the Kirkeby Building for dinner; later they return for the view.
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is Hollywood's new girl in New York City and the new interest of Timmie Everett. He spends his profits from Pal Joy long-distancing her.
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is put under personal contract by Rock Hudson
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| August 63 |
talks it over with her bosses, Rock Hudson and Howard Hawks, and gets permission to do a "Burke's Law" episode
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| January 64 |
the Abilene press wonders if former McMurry girl Charlene Stavely and TV actress and model Charlene Holt are one and the same
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| July 64 |
dates her co-star in Man’s Favorite Sport?, Rock Hudson
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| October 65 |
columnist Harrison Carroll tells: “Neither has answered my calls, but their friends report actress Charlene Holt and wealthy bachelor William Tishman plan to wed. She and Tishman have been waiting for a long time.”
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films El Dorado on location in Tucson, Arizona. Her stand-in, young Lara Lindsay, will start a film career of her own.
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| 5 October 66 |
she and millionaire builder William A. Tishman take out their marriage license in Los Angeles. “Tishman, 40, spent $2 on the license Wednesday at Los Angeles County Courthouse. The price went up to $5 today.”
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| 7 October 66 |
as Charlene Stavely Holt, she marries Tishman in Los Angeles. He's 40; she's 38 but gives her age as 28.
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| November 66 |
is in Tucson, Arizona, for location filming of El Dorado
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| March 67 |
falls and pulls a ligament in her leg while skiing with her husband in Alta, Utah
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| April 67 |
she and Tishman reside in a luxurious hilltop house in Beverly Hill’s Trousdale Estates, filled with baroque antiques, a tall Spanish cabinet, and Italian chest with painted flowers, life-sized Dionysian figures in bronzed wood, and a grey-coated chef
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will attend the Academy Awards in a burnt peach gown by designer John Hayles
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| January 68 |
entertains over 15 million GIs on the Armed Forces Radio Christmas Show
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| March 68 |
attends a lavish Hollywood party thrown by arranger-composer Jerry Fielding with hubby Bill Tishman and joins the table-top dancing
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| March 69 |
she and Tishman file for divorce in Los Angeles
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| June 72 |
divorces Tishman in Los Angeles
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| August 73 |
returns to the movies after the breakup of her six-year marriage to Tishman
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| September 73 |
is seen lunching with Henry Berger and new psychic Dorothy Raulerson
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| August 80 |
her agent says that “she was from Texas, but was never a Stavely and did not go to McMurray College”
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her last known address is 37024 Brentwood, Tennessee
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| 5 April 96 |
as Charlene Holt, she dies at age 67 in Williamson, Tennessee
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Sources:
Sunday Journal and Star, The Hammond Times, The Lima News, Mansfield News-Journal, The Kerrville Times, Daily Tribune, The Lowell Sun, The News, Movie Life, The Abilene Reporter-News, The Times Recorder, Naugatucket News, The Long Beach Press-Telegram, El Paso Herald-Post, New Castle News, www.Ancestry.com |
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