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(Moira MacNeill)
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| 12 March 30 |
is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Angus and Mary MacNeill, nee Calder
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the neighboring children nickname her Cindi
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majors in art
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after graduation, she works as a waitress at a New Jersey seashore resort and accepts her first modeling job for fashion shows a Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia
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signs as a model and works for Maxwell House Coffee, Parliament cigarettes, Coty and Revlon
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is with Eileen Ford in New York
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| March 53 |
does advertisements for Noxema
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| September 53 |
is named "Miss Sweater Girl of 1953" by knitwear leaders, reporters and radio and TV representatives in New York
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| 54 |
models some of the prizes awarded contest winners in "The Big Payoff"
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marries Walter J. Wood
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her son, Randall, is born
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| August 59 |
comes to the attention of producer Hal B. Wallis, who signs her for a long-term multiple-picture contract
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| May 60 |
is signed to make her movie debut in The Great Impostor. She gets the part "on the strength of her curvesome appearance while modeling a gown from Ben Hur on the Academy Awards telecast."
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| c. 60 |
her husband Walter Wood resigns from his post in a top-flight New York advertising agency to make his first picture with actor Don Murray, The Hoodlum Priest
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| 22 August 60 |
is bridesmaid at the St. Louis, Missouri, wedding of Keir Dullea, her co-star in The Hoodlum Priest, and Margo Bennett
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| 24 September 79 |
divorces Wood in Los Angeles
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| 27 February 83 |
as Moira Calder Wood, she dies at age 52 at her home in Malibu, California, after a long illness
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Sources:
Randall Wood at www.IMDb.com, Valley Morning Star, Las Cruces Sun-News, Star-News, Long Beach Independent, www.Ancestry.com |
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