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(Theona Pearce?)
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| c. 31 |
is born
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is secretary to North Carolina Governor William B. Umstead
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gets married
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becomes a Powers model
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| c. 53 |
her daughter, Karen, is born
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is the "And away we go" girl on "The Jackie Gleason Show"
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| Summer 54 |
promotes 20th Century-Fox's upcoming The Egyptian in several US cities by strolling down the street costumed as a harem beauty with a tame cheetah on a leash
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| c. 55 |
gets divorced
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| April 55 |
is screen-tested by 20th Century-Fox
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| October 55 |
is a model on "The Johnny Carson Show." The other "Carson Cuties" are Phyllis Applegate, Norma Brooks, and Sally Todd.
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| May 56 |
escapes injury when her small sports car is rammed by a truck in Beverly Hills
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will be in the upcoming The Opposite Sex
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| August 56 |
columnist Louella Parsons writes: "The local belles are also casting an interested eye in the direction of Rod Taylor - but he keeps on phoning Theona Bryant in Hollywood."
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| October 56 |
on a beach picnic with her, actor-photographer-sculptor Gardner McKay slips and falls down a 90-foot cliff near Ventura. She rushes him to the UCLA emergency hospital, where doctors are amazed that he escaped with only cuts and bruises.
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| November 56 |
is bedded again with her mink allergy. "For an appearance in New York to ballyhoo The Opposite Sex, she took a chance with a borrowed mink wrap. By the time she planed back to Hollywood the next day, she had broken out in a rash."
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| May 57 |
optioned by MGM, she's reported moving from the Studio Club to an apartment
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| July 57 |
completes her most important role with Bing Crosby in Man on Fire
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| September 57 |
will get a featured role in TV's "The Thin Man"
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| c. 58 |
obtains a long-term contract at MGM
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| December 60 |
gets around Hollywood with CBS producer Bob Lewis
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| May 61 |
is a new twosome with Cliff Robertson
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| January 62 |
columnist Louella Parsons tells: "When actress Theona Bryant returns to Hollywood to do more work on A Girl Named Tamiko, she'll bring with her her 8-year-old daughter, Karen. No one knew that Theona, who is very popular with the younger set, has a daughter and has been divorced for six years."
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| July 75 |
is reported to return to television in a dramatic series
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Sources:
Anderson Daily Bulletin, The Nevada State Journal, Mansfield News Journal, The Vidette-Messenger, Indiana Evening Gazette, The Galveston News, The Coshocton Tribune, The Lima News, The Daily Review, Picture Show Annual 1958 |
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