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(June Maley)
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| 8 June 24 |
is born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
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| 42 |
is crowned “Miss Atlantic City”
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| August 43 |
is a New York chorine and dead ringer for Lana Turner
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| August 47 |
is seen at the Leslie House with Jay Rossback of the department store clan
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| May 48 |
dates band leader Artie Shaw
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| January 48 |
is the only girl in the cast of Mr. Roberts
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| April 48 |
she and fellow actress Lois Andrews throw a New York City party that is lit by two fires, one in the alley and one in the wastebasket
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| September 48 |
Lord David Milford-Haven is mad about her, and she also gives insomnia to George DeWitt
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| October 48 |
is back in the States from being shown London by Milford-Haven
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| December 48 |
is so mad about jazzer Buddy Rich that she reserves a table at the Clique every night for two weeks running
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tells off Buddy Rich at the Clique club for not paying enough attention to her
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| August 49 |
is the big romance of Joe Fischetti, youngest of the three Chicago brothers, cousins to Al Capone
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a Greek shipping tycoon leases her place while Joe Fischetti is preparing to fly East to be with her
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| Late 40s |
spending a lot of time in Europe, she is kept by King Faruk of Egypt. They have a torrid love affair, and he showers her with European haute couture.
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| 50s |
is one of Columbia boss Harry Cohn's “girlfriends”
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| April 50 |
makes up with Fischetti and follows him to Florida
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| June 50 |
recuperates from an appendectomy in Atlantic City
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| March 51 |
it's all over between her and George DeWitt
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| August 51 |
is seen out with actor Farley Granger
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is off to Paris, France
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| 52-54 |
is a very close friend of Frances Fay and goes to listen to her all the time at Ye Little Club or the Cresendo
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lives at the Fountain Lanai in Hollywood at the corner of Switzer and Fountain
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is a good friend of Ava Gardner, Shelly Winters, Betty Grable, and Bobby Short, among others.
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she and her boyfriend, young Richard "Rick" Shelton, attend Betty Grable's birthday party out and around the pool at the Fountain Lanai. After the party, Peggy borrows Rick's car, not telling him where she's going. She calls several hours later to tell him he can pick up the car. On his way home, he finds a very small high heel shoe. Later he asks Peggy about it, and she discovers it was Betty Grable's.
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Shelton takes a former classmate of his, aspiring actress Ina Poindexter of Covington, Tennessee, to Peggy's apartment. There, Peggy makes beautiful Ina wear a Jacques Faith that she was given by Faruk, a white satin dress with pearl-like beads beautifully sown onto the bodice. So when Rick takes Ina to Ciro's, many heads turn that night.
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never seems to have a dime to herself. She also has a terrible drinking problem, along with a nasty mouth
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enjoys teaching Rick how to act "European." When he lights her cigarette, she puts two fingers on the finger he is holding the match with and then taps him with one of those fingers when her cigarette is lit.
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| 5 July 52 |
marries Ricky Rayfield in Fort Lee, Texas. It’s her first marriage, her husband’s third.
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| September 52 |
busts up with Rayfield
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| October 52 |
is seen with Tim Taylor at the Mocambo
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| February 53 |
dates actor John Hodiak, but her mind is on actor Mike Ireland
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is the love of actor Brad Dexter, the ex of singer Peggy Lee
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| March 53 |
is seen at the Bantam Cock with Tim Taylor
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| July 53 |
her ex-husband Rayfield is injured in a terrible auto accident shortly after his divorce from her
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| January 54 |
dates golfer Al Besselink
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| September 55 |
is in love with Brad Dexter
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| August 56 |
dates actor Corey Allen
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| September 57 |
dates Ted Tillinghast III, the estranged husband of actress Nancy Valentine
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| October 57 |
is seen out with Western movie actor Jason Hall
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| March 60 |
gives up Hollywood to manage her father's bars and grills in New Jersey
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| Early 60s |
stays with Leslie Snyder, who once worked for Louella Parsons. Leslie asks male model William Ramage to "be nice to Peggy" while she is in Las Vegas for a few days. He takes Peggy out to The Knife and Fork coffee shop, and there they meet Troy Donahue. Ramage will later remember that evening as a painful experience as Peggy talked non-stop and was inappropriately dressed.
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| c. 61 |
marries a young policeman by the name of Schoenborn / Schoenberg and settles in Flushing, Long Island, New York. He is about 15 years her junior. The marriage will last until the mid-Seventies.
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lives in California
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Sources:
Richard Shelton Hendrick, John O’Dowd, Nevada State Journal, The Port Arthur News, Pottstown Mercury, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Zanesville Signal, Mansfield News-Journal, Herald-Journal, The Times Recorder, The Monessen Daily Independent, Burlington Daily Times, The Lima News, www.Ancestry.com |
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