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Marianna Hill Profile

Marianna Hill
Marianna Hill
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(Marianna Schwarzkopf / Pasquariello)
9 February 42 is born in Santa Barbara, California, of English, Spanish, Jewish and Iroquois descent, to Frank Rawls, a bit player-turned-building contractor, and Mary Hill, a screenwriter. She’s the grandniece of New Jersey police superintendent Norman Schwarzkopf who’s son will become General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
? is raised in Canada, Majorca, and Great Britain
58 is discovered for the daily “For Better or Worse” when attending a Hollywood costume party dressed as a Spanish belle at age 16
c. 60 graduates from Montemar Girls School in San Diego at 18
? studies at the La Jolla Playhouse
? works at the Globe Theatre in San Diego
February 61 models for a table-chest design in local newspapers
January 63 tagged a veteran of 50 television shows, producer Herman Cohen signs her for his upcoming Black Zoo
c. 65 studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City
April 65 columnist Louella Parsons reveals: “Marianna Hill and John Leyton stopping by M. D. Hover’s Century Restaurant to watusi to Lenny Roberts and his combo. Lenny and his group appear in Red Line 7000, the movie in which Marianna gets her first femme lead...”
May 65 is spotted by director Howard Hawks, who casts her among 100 girls for his upcoming Red Line 7000
July 65 columnist Louella Parsons knows: “Latest honey for Elvis Presley to get himself ‘rumored’ engaged to is 21-year-old Marianna Hill who gets a top role in his Hawaiian Paradise...”
December 65 reveals she has an IQ of 165 “I am going to challenge Jill St. John in an IQ test!”
September 69 columnist Jack O’Brian reveals: “director Haskell Wexler couldn’t talk Robert Forster and Marianna Hill out of their self-consciousness at the nude bedroom scene in Medium Cool so he solved it by shedding HIS clothes while directing that scene...”
July 74 attends Max Factor’s party at the Malibu Colony on the Pacific. Other guests are Paul Newman, Dyan Cannon, Michele Lerner, and Lainie Kazan.
August 74 is the steady date of TV actor David Groh
93 as Marianna H. Schwarzkopf, she resides in Encino, California
Sources:
Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood by Tom Lisanti, Who’s Who in Hollywood 1966, San Mateo Times, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, Oakland Tribune, The News, The San Antonio Light, Anderson Daily Bulletin, www.Ancestry.com
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