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(Mary Louise Welch)
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| 15 November 30 |
is born in Hollywood
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debuts on stage at age 4
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| May 49 |
marries her high school sweetheart Wallace “Wally” J. Russell, one of four brothers of actress Jane Russell. He’s 20; she’s 18.
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considers renaming herself Leslye Ballard, but her studio considers that name “too stagy”
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| October 49 |
the press tells that she, “formerly a Bible student, signed a five-year contract with a clause requiring her to pose for cheesecake art”
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| November 49 |
will get the full glamour girl buildup at Universal-International
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| Early 50 |
tours Germany and other parts of Europe, to promote Francis9
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| March 50 |
is pictured posing with Luke Appling, Chicago White Sox regular shortstop, at the Pasadena, California, training quarters
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| August 50 |
is on a Universal-International promotion tour throughout the States to ballyhoo for their upcoming comedy Louisa
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is one of the live models presenting fall fashions in local theaters to promote Louisa
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the press tells that her husband insists on calling her Louise
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her husband is reported in the Navy and stationed at San Diego / got out of the Army in January. He works as a tree surgeon but tries to get into pictures as an actor-singer.
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she, her husband and Jane Russell are reported building a Bible school / chapel in Van Nuys
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| October 50 |
she and fellow starlets Peggy Castle, Joyce Holden, and Peggy Dow are pictured promoting Universal-International’s school for young players in Hollywood
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| 24 October 51 |
her daughter Jay Arden is born in Los Angeles
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| 23 November 54 |
her daughter Jody Ann is born in Los Angeles
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| March 55 |
columnist Erskine Johnson reports her “back in the swing as an actress after taking time out for mamahood. She’s been acting on a lot of telefilm shows.”
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| 15 January 57 |
her son Duke P. is born in Los Angeles
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divorces Russell. He will die at age 75 in 2004 in Las Vegas.
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| 6 February 60 |
marries Keith E. Rogers in Ventura County. He’s 37; she’s 29.
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| 75 |
as Mary Lou Rogers, she resides in Simi Valley. Her husband teaches in the Los Angeles school district. The couple has seven children and two dogs.
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| January 75 |
will be the star of Hello Dolly, the next musical production of the Simi Valley Horizon Players
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resides with her husband in Simi Valley, California
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Sources:
Waterloo Sunday Courier, The Post-Standard, Mansfield News-Journal, Dixon Evening Telegraph, Chronicle-Telegram, Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald, Van Nuys News, www.Ancestry.com |
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