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Mona Knox Profile
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| 1 May 29 | is born in Chickasha, Oklahoma |
| ? | her family moves to California when she’s still a child |
| ? | wins several contests as a child model |
| ? | attends Pepperdine College in Los Angeles |
| June 49 | will preside as queen of the American Legion’s 17th Annual Charity Ball fireworks display and circus, which will be held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on the 3rd and 4th |
| August 50 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reports that “Shirley Temple’s ex-husband, John Agar, is writing daily love letters to Mona Knox…” |
| October 50 | columnist Erskine Johnson tells that “Mona Knox, a brunette beauty, who resembles Liz Taylor, is the reason for John Agar’s jaunty air these days… |
| November 50 | Kilgallen informs that “Susan Morrow is helping John Agar forget Dody Gardner who helped him forget Mona Knox who helped him forget Wanda Hendrix who helped him forget Shirley Temple…” |
| December 50 | is Vic Damone’s latest |
| 51 | resides in Lynwood, California |
| is featured in Glamorous Models |
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| January 51 | dates Dan Daily at the Mocambo |
| May 51 | is pictured among starlets looking for hubbies. The others are Sue Casey, Suellen Weire, Blanche Taylor, and Pat Hall. |
| June 51 | she and Sy Barlett are noted at the Fox and Hounds |
| September 51 | is Milton Earle's date at El Morocco |
| February 52 | columnist Jack Lait reports that she and Kirk Douglas are “meeting every midnight together…” |
| Lait mentions that she has shifted to Dan Daily |
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| April 52 | the press reveals: “Even the starlets are having rip-roaring feuds in Hollywood these days. Latest entries in the sweepstakes: Claudette Thornton, Bob Stack’s flame in one corner and Mona Knox, a Nicky Hilton favourite, in the other.” |
| May 52 | columnist Walter Winchell heralds: “Mona is MGM producer Joseph Pasternak’s top consoler since the break-up with Dorothy Darrell…” |
| June 52 | columnist Edith Gwynn relates: “Mona Knox and Steve Crane continuing their cooing at The Crescendo, where the sweet singing of Carlo Ravazza is a big hit…” |
| July 52 | dates Nick Hilton at the Mocambo |
| November 52 | she and Kirk Douglas “have discovered each other in a big way” |
| January 53 | columnist Harrison Carroll reports: “Myrna Dell is helping console Diana Lynn’s estranged mate, John Lindsay. They were a dinner foursome with Steve Crane and Mona Knox…” |
| March 53 | her “love fest with Steve Crane is cooling, if not on ice by now…” |
| May 53 | columnist Erskine Johnson makes known: “Lana Turner’s ex Steve Crane and Mona Knox have patched it up now that French movie queen Martine Carole has instructed her lawyer to get a default divorce. Mona has assured her parents that there will be a marriage.” |
| July 53 | is seen with Jerry Ohrbach and Joe Schenck at Ciro’s |
| her date at Mocambo is Andy McIntire |
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| September 53 | columnist Walter Winchell reveals: “Lew Ayres has found Mona Knox and intends the field to hold her…” |
| November 53 | is noted back with Steve Crane at the Mocambo |
| columnist Harrison Carroll circulates: “And a few tables farther removed was Steve Crane’s one-time girlfriend, Mona Knox, with her new Belgian beau, Paul Van de Veld. And none of the ex-loves table-hopped.” |
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| is seen at the Tail of the Cock |
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| February 54 | she and Joan Tyler are roommates with Susan Zanuck in Manhattan. “All three trying for TV.” |
| Winchell reports Franchot Tone “surrounded by Mona Knox and other gorgeous girls at Billingsley’s table 50…" |
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| columnist Louis Sobol describes: “A crowded night at Little Club finds Franchot Tone with Mona Knox, Dolores Grey with Milton Rachmill, Nancy Berg with Bill Mauldin and Pietro Mele with Zina Rachevsky…” |
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| columnist Earl Wilson divulges that Sherry Britton “stomped out of Linday’s after starlet Mona Knox told her ‘Leave Franchot Tone alone – he’s mine.’ Sherry had just been sitting with the group…” |
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| April 54 | is seen at The Little Club with Lili St. Cyr and Franchot Tone |
| May 54 | Tone gives her a farewell party at 21 |
| July 54 | columnist Harrison Carroll tells that she “is back in New York after making a picture in Denmark and probably will fly to Chicago to see Steve Crane while he is there…” |
| August 54 | is a duet with Franchot Tone at Leslie House |
| September 54 | she and Tone are a daily double at Leslie House |
| Winchell knows: “Betty Hutton’s recent groom, Charles O’Curran, is living it up with Mona Knox…” |
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| is seen with Charles O’Curron at the Gilmore’s opening |
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| February 55 | Winchell proclaims: “Charles Chaplin, Jr., just found out that moon and spoon rhyme with poon…” |
| March 55 | is seen with Charlie O’Curran at Jack’s at the Beach |
| May 55 | Winchell ponders: “Pals wonder if Mona Knox and Mexican film idol Cantinflas are secretly sealed…” |
| Winchell returns to her: “Mexico’s Cantinflas and Mona Knox wonder who planted the rumor about them.” |
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| October 55 | the press tells that Harry Richman hired her to appear in his Broadway show |
| November 55 | Winchell reports “Joe DiMaggio, Mona Knox and Martin Kimmel doing the Park Avenue hit…” |
| January 56 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen knows that “Mona Knox and Joe DiMaggio have cooled.” |
| February 56 | columnist Earl Wilson clues us in that her escort is a well-known theatrical figure... |
| May 56 | Winchell mentions “Dick Egan and Mona Knox at the Copa…” |
| columnist Dorothy Kilgallen imparts that “Gloria DeHaven’s ex, Martin Kimmel, has being doing his hand holding with Mona Knox at the Eden Roc hide-away room…” |
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| August 56 | columnist Lee Mortimer lets it be known that Joe DiMaggio’s last date before flying to the coast was with pretty Mona Knox at the Villa Victor in Glen Cove |
| November 56 | is seen with Jack Lemmon at the Luau |
| January 57 | columnist Erskine Johnson notes “recently divorced Jack Lemmon dating Mona Knox” |
| May 57 | Winchell reports from New York: “Mona Knox has flipped her suds over George Roberts, the H’wood beerionaire…” |
| June 59 | Winchell explains: “Mona Knox cancelled things with her psychoanalyst beau. The same medico who gave Kim Novak her intellectual kicks…” |
| June 60 | columnist Earl Wilson expects her to marry Dr. Leslie Spicer of Los Angeles |
| 6 August 60 | marries Dr. Leslie Spicer in Los Angeles |
| August 60 | columnist Harrison Carroll writes: “Hear that Mona Knox and Dr. Leslie Spicer went and got married, will honeymoon later…" |
| 29 June 61 | her son, Leslie John, is born in Los Angeles |
| ? | asks that support for her son be increased from $360 to $500 a month |
| 29 April 64 | has to take a cut in child support because Spicer tells Judge Roger Alton Pfaff that his business slacked off and he can’t afford $360 a month. The court reduces the payments to $250 monthly. |
| 84 | resides in West Hollywood |
| 11 June 08 | as Mona O. Knox, she dies at age 76 of heart failure in a West Hollywood, California, hospital |
| Sources: The Herald-Press, The Daily Register, Mansfield News Journal, The Zanesville Signal, Glamorous Models, The Monessen Daily Independent, Stars & Stripes, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Humboldt Standard, Pottstown Mercury, The Lethbridge Herald, Walla Walla Union Bulletin, Van Nuys News, Nevada State Journal, The Times Recorder, The Herald-Press, The Coshocton Tribune, Burlington Daily Times-News, Tri-City Herald, The Vidette-Messenger, www.Ancestry.com | |
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