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(Rose Mary Emma)
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| 18 August 28 |
is born in Geneva, Illinois, to propman Joseph Emma, from Sicily, and vaudeville dancer Amelia Berky, from Austria
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her family moves to Lake Forest, Illinois, where her father manages the Deerpath Theatre
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entertains with a USO troupe in a military hospital during WWII
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| 46 |
heads to California to pursue a performing career and enrolls at the Pasadena Playhouse
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| Early 50s |
is a “Golden Circle Girl” at Paramount
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finds the right man, writer-producer Leonard Freeman, at the Pasadena Community Playhouse
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| May 52 |
will star in Paramount’s upcoming War Bonnet, a.k.a. The Savage
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| 53 |
marries Freeman
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| 15 August 54 |
her daughter, Robin, is born in Los Angeles
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| 55 |
misses her daughter’s first birthday party due to the shooting schedule at the Pentagon, Washington D.C., for Earth Versus the Flying Saucers
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| 57 |
isn’t happy with director Reginald LeBorg while filming War Drums
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| December 63 |
has her last acting job on a television show and retires to raise her children
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| 20 January 74 |
becomes the widow of Freeman, who dies at age 53 in California following heart surgery
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| 18 June 76 |
marries producer-director Walter E. Grauman in Los Angeles. He's 54; she 47.
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| 17 October 80 |
divorces Grauman in Los Angeles
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Sources:
Tom Weaver, Screen Sirens Scream! by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell, TV Guide 62, Western Women by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald, Modern Screen, www.Ancestry.com |
Recommended Books:
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Links:
Filmography
Joan Taylor at Spooky's Nightmare Mansion |
