Gloria Talbott
Gloria Maude Talbott ( born February 7, 1931 in Glendale, California, † September 19, 2000 ibid ) was an American actress.
Film career
Your first small role (without naming ) they had in 1937 in the feature film Maytime, followed by brief appearances in Sweet and Low-Down (1943) and Elia Kazan A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 ). In 1951, she appeared regularly on television.
In the 1950s, she first played in some Western Desert Pursuit ( 1952), Northern Patrol (1953) and Border City Rustlers (1953, a compilation of episodes of the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ). In 1955 she had roles in We 're No Angels, Street of terror and Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven allows. Later, she made a name for himself as a Scream Queen in B-movies like The Cyclops (1957 ), The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957 ), I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958 ) and The Leech Woman ( 1960). Her last feature film was the Western An Eye for an Eye ( 1966).
At the same time she graduated from repeated appearances in the famous television series Perry Mason, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, a thousand miles of dust and Lassie.
In his book Cult Movies Danny Peary judged in retrospect about Gloria Talbott: " [It] was not the classic film Beauty [ ... ] but it was the perfect heroine for science fiction and horror films, because they radiated a rarely seen combination of strength and fragility from ".
Private
Gloria Talbott was married several times. Her first marriage with her fellow actor Gene Parrish, for she interrupted her career for a short time, ended in 1953 after four years' duration. From this compound showed a son. From 1956 to 1964 she was married to the twelve- year-older actor Grover Sandy Sanders. In 1967 she married the doctor Steven Joseph Capobianco. After the birth of a daughter, she decided to devote himself entirely to their education, and got out of the movie business. The marriage with Capobianco was divorced after two years. In 1970 she married the dentist Patrick Robert Mullally.
She died at the age of 69 and was buried in the Mission Cemetery in San Fernando.
Her older sister Lori Talbott was also an actress.