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(Judith L. Bamber)
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is born in Ann Arbor / Dearborn, Michigan, of German-English and American Indian descent. Her father’s an engineer with the Ford Motor Company.
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attends Dearborn High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan
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starts modeling while still in high school
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| 55 |
moves to California
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works as a carhop, a clerk in a laundry, a baby-sitter, and a dishwasher
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begins modeling and owns her own agency for a while
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models for the J.C. Penney catalog
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does live television commercials
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is discovered by Nils Thor Granlund. He sets her up with dramatic coach Joe Graham.
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attends the Warner Brothers Acting School
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her personal manager, Byron Griffin, gets her contracts with American International Pictures and Warner Brothers
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| February 57 |
is on the cover of and featured in Scan
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| May 57 |
is on the cover of Vue
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| July 57 |
is tested by Warner Brothers. She fits nicely into the blonde-bombshell niche, a lá Barbara Lang and Jayne Mansfield.
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| December 57 |
is on the cover of Glamor Parade
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| 58 |
is George Fenneman’s co-host on the TV quiz show “Anybody Can Play”
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| c. 58 |
is tested by Alfred Hitchcock for his upcoming Vertigo
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| April 58 |
is on the cover of Modern Man
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| September 58 |
is featured in Scamp
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| Early 60s |
is the “Hertz Girl” for a New York ad agency
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| 13 September 62 |
her son Louis I. is born in Los Angeles
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| 64 |
her cat, Xerxes, is used in Monstrosity, her last film, filmed in ten days on location at a mansion on Adams Boulevard in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles
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retires to raise her family
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| 11 November 67 |
marries Douglas W. McClary in California. He's 36; she's 31.
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| 18 November 71 |
her son Brooks S. is born in Los Angeles
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| 4 February 04 |
McClary dies at age 72 in California
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remarries
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resides in California
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Sources:
"Judy Bamber: The Beauty Behind the Atomic Brain" by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell in Scary Monsters Magazine, Modern Man, Vue, Scamp, Screen Stories, www.Ancestry.com
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Links:
Filmography
Judy Bamber at Babys on Fire |
