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Judy Bamber Profile
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| (Judith L. Bamber) |
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| 36 | is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of German-English and American Indian descent. Her father's a chemical engineer with the Ford Motor Company. |
| ? | attends Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan |
| ? | starts modeling while still in high school |
| ? | works as a carhop, a clerk in a laundry, a baby-sitter, and a dishwasher |
| 55 | moves to California |
| begins modeling and owns her own agency for a while |
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| ? | models for the J.C. Penney catalog |
| ? | does live television commercials |
| ? | is discovered by Nils Thor Granlund. He sets her up with dramatic coach Joe Graham. |
| ? | attends the Warner Brothers Acting School |
| ? | her personal manager, Byron Griffith, gets her contracts with American International Pictures and Warner Brothers |
| February 57 | is on the cover of and featured in Scan |
| May 57 | is on the cover of Vue |
| July 57 | is tested by Warner Brothers. She fits nicely into the blonde-bombshell niche, a lá Barbara Lang and Jayne Mansfield. |
| December 57 | is on the cover of Glamor Parade |
| 58 | is George Fenneman’s co-host on the TV quiz show “Anybody Can Play” |
| c. 58 | is tested by Alfred Hitchcock for his upcoming Vertigo |
| April 58 | is on the cover of Modern Man |
| September 58 | is featured in Scamp |
| 60 | her cat, Xerxes, is used in Monstrosity, her last film, filmed at a mansion on West Adams Boulevard in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles |
| Early 60s | is the “Hertz Girl” for a New York ad agency |
| ? | adopts a boy, Louis I., who was born in Los Angeles on September 13, 1962 |
| retires to raise her family |
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| 11 November 67 | marries Douglas W. McClary in California. He's 36; she's 31. |
| 18 November 71 | her son Brooks S. is born in Los Angeles |
| 4 February 04 | McClary dies at age 72 in California |
| 04 | remarries |
| 08 | resides in California |
| January 17 | her brother, George Bamber of Fallbrook, California, gets killed when a tree crushes his car |
| May 25 | lives in Oceanside, California |
| Sources: "Judy Bamber: The Sci-Fi Stalwarts" by Tom Weaver in Classic Images, "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, Giseld Dervishi | |
| Recommended Books: Fifties Blondes by Richard Koper | |
| Links: Filmography | |