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(Betty Jane Haworth?)
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studies to be a dress designer and a commercial artist
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| December 48 |
tagged an MGM actress, she helps to snip tape to formally open the expanded Owl Rexall Super Drug Store at 6351 Van Nuys Boulevard
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| May 49 |
is among a party of 20 chorus girls leaving from Hollywood, California, for a five week tour of air force bases overseas. Pictured with her are Claudette Thornton, Wanda Smith, Rosalie Calvert, and Anne Ross.
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| September 49 |
is a resident of North Hollywood
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| 13 September 49 |
poses for members of the Sherman Oaks Camera Club in the home of Harold Rood, 12109 Landale Street, Studio City. A social hour closes the meeting.
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is discovered by Universal-International when Red Skelton comes into the photography shop where she works to buy some film / is a secretary until Red Skelton mentions her name to a studio talent scout
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| February 52 |
columnist Harrison Carroll reports: "Andy Parenchio, Jr., who went with Anne Jeffreys for so long, was at Ciro's with Betty Jane Haworth..."
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| February 54 |
is Lily Chrysanthemum on NBC's "The Pinky Lee Show," designed to entertain children and adults alike
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| February 55 |
she and fellow starlets Myrna Hansen, Leigh Snowden, and Lili Kardell are pictured with Francis, the talking mule, doing road work in Hollywood
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| April 55 |
poses with Janice Vaughn, 21, judged "The Most Beautiful WAVE in the Eleventh Naval District." Janice turned down a Hollywood movie acting contract following her debut in Francis in the Navy.
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| November 55 |
she and fellow starlets Mara Corday, Gia Scala, Dani Crayne are pictured in mailbags, posing with Walter Townsend, postmaster of Universal City, who is headed for the postmaster’s convention
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| February 56 |
columnist Louella Parsons reports: "Ben Cooper and U-I's pretty redhead, Jane Howard, are building up a serious romance..."
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she and fellow starlet Karen Sharpe congratulate Jacques Jimenez, Jr., a San Jose Bellarmine school senior, on winning second place in a state-wide contest "Safer Driving through Better Vision"
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| 5 April 56 |
cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremonies for the new Hughes Market at Devonshire and Balboa
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| June 56 |
she and Sherry Jackson take part in the Paxton Parade of Public Personalities at the opening of the Pacoima Babe Ruth League
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is a new twosome with actor Ben Cooper. "Ben’s sister, Bunny, screens all of his dates and she has her approval."
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she and fellow starlet Kipp Hamilton are named vice chairwomen of the Committee for Highway Safety
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| August 56 |
she, Leigh Snowden, Cynthia Patrick, Dani Crayne, Gia Scala, and Karen Kadler give a royal cheesecake welcome to Gilbert Connor, Umatilla Indian and direct descent of Chief Joseph. He arrived at Universal-International to appear in the upcoming Pillars of the Sky.
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| October 56 |
columnist Louella Parsons asks: "Whatever happened to Marete Reinhardt, Fess Parker's girlfriend? He was at Jack's at the Beach with Jane Howard and it was his second date with Miss Howard..."
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| November 56 |
she and Manny Frank are "the newest newsome in town"
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| February 57 |
Parsons reports her recovering at Midway Hospital following surgery
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| March 58 |
is seen at the Oyster House with Sy Devore
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| March 61 |
columnist Lee Mortimer tells that "John Vivyan switched his affections from Patricia Huston to Jane Howard, a former U-I contractee..."
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becomes a singer and owner of the W-E-B supper club at 12915 Ventura Boulevard, at Coldwater Canyon
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| November 61 |
performs with singer-actor Byron Palmer at her W-E-B
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seeks an annulment of her marriage to William Valis. Her attorney, Tom Call, charges that she and Bill didn't fulfill the residence laws of Mexico when they wed.
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| December 61 |
holds a press party at the W-E-B to introduce the Twist to columnists and reporters, inaugurating a new policy to make Monday nights "Twist Night" at her nightspot. Teaching the new "spine-bending" dance is starlet June Wilkinson, currently to be seen in The Continental Twist.
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Sources:
Valley News, Van Nuys News, Waterloo Sunday Courier, The Monessen Daily Independent, San Mateo Times, The Daily Independent, Denton Journal, Modern Screen, Tri-City Herald, Williamsport Sun-Gazette, The Lima News, The Hammond Times, Nevada State Journal, The Vidette-Messenger |
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