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Patricia Blair Profile
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| (Patricia Lou Blake) |
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| 15 / 31 January 31 | is born in Fort Worth, Texas |
| is raised in Dallas |
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| ? | starts modeling at age 13 |
| ? | does summer stock |
| ? | works as a Conover model |
| ? | is voted the girl with the most beautiful legs in Texas |
| 54 | is signed by Warner Brothers after a cheesecake photo on a pocket-magazine cover |
| March 55 | photographer Bert Six calls her one of the most photogenic girls in Hollywood |
| October 55 | is named a "Deb Star" in Hollywood, California. The others are Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg, Cathy Crosby, Lori Nelson, Gloria Talbot, Liliane Montevecchi, Kipp Hamilton, Tracey Morgan, Mara Corday, and Jody Lawrence. |
| 56 | her co-star Herbert Rudley doesn't think too much about her talent on the set of The Black Sleep |
| August 59 | is a big item with Famous Artists' Dave Gerber. She is under contract with Metro. |
| December 59 | is a twosome again with producer Sandy Howard at Dino's Loge |
| December 60 | is seen around with famous 54-year-old playwright Clifford Odets |
| 61 | does an unsold pilot, “Tramp Ship,” opposite Neville Brand |
| 62 | replaces Joan Taylor as the love interest in ABC’s “The Rifleman” when Taylor’s husband, producer Leonard Freeman, has to move to Hawaii for the production of "Hawaii Five-0" |
| c. 64 | is ready to move to New York when screenwriter Gordon Chase suggests her for the female lead in “Daniel Boone” |
| 14 February 65 | marries land developer Martin S. Colbert in Los Angeles. He's 42; she's 30. |
| March 66 | lives with her husband on the 60-foot power boat Don Juan berthed at the Playa Del Rey Marina in California. The couple also owns a house in Palm Springs. |
| Mid-66 | visits Europe for the first time on a belated honeymoon. The Colberts visit Italy, England, and France. Afterwards she claims that no place in Europe can compare to Lake Tahoe. |
| May 68 | has to travel several hundred miles each week for her role in "Daniel Boone" |
| 00 | produces trade shows in the states of New York and New Jersey |
| 9 September 13 | dies in North Wildwood, New Jersey |
| Sources: Kirk Crivello, The Bridgeport Telegram,The Lima News, Chronicle-Telegram, The Zanesville Signal, The Daily Gleaner, Nevada State Journal, The Port Arthur News, The Times Recorder, Syracuse Herald-American, Attack of the Monster Movie Makers by Tom Weaver, Western Women by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald, www.Ancestry.com | |
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