| c. 27 |
is born
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| ? |
is a New York bathing suit model
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| c. Mid-50s |
is an inexperienced singer at the plush Copacabana nightclub. Proprietor Jack Entratter orders her from the stage with "Get that babbling blonde off the floor." Then he tells her to sit at a table and watch the show. The next night she goes on and performs like a pro.
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| July 57 |
columnist Mike Connolly writes: "Bek Nelson, the oddly-named chorine, bounced from small parts in Pal Joy, Operation Mad Ball and Cowboy to a leading role in Too Young..."
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| August 57 |
is noted ringsiding with Harry Crane at Nat King Cole's opening at the Cocoanut Grove
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| October 59 |
it will be wedding bells sometime between October 3 and December 9 for her and actor Don Gordon. They want to be married shipboard and sail to Honolulu but are told “that only happens in the movies.”
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| Late 59 |
marries Gordon
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| Thanksgiving 60 |
she and Gordon adopt a little Italian girl through the Foster Parents Plan
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| ? |
divorces Gordon. He'll marry Denise Farr in 1979.
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| 07 |
as Bek N. Gordon, she resides in Santa Cruz, California
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Sources:
Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Vidette-Messenger, Appleton Post-Crescent, Independent Star-News, www.Ancestry.com |
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