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Sandra Giles Profile
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| (Leila / Lelia Bernice Giles) |
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| 24 July 32 | is born in Hooker, Oklahoma |
| is raised in Texas |
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| ? | wins several beauty titles in Texas such as “Miss San Antonio” and “Miss Corpus Christi” |
| ? | gets married |
| c. 51 | her daughter, Sandra, is born |
| 53 | moves with her family to Hollywood and works as a secretary-bookkeeper in a Jewish delicatessen |
| 56 | is a private secretary in Los Angeles |
| is roommate of aspiring fellow Texas model Juli Reding, who suggests her to agent Shelly Davis |
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| May 56 | poses as Lady Luck for a painting by Philip Paval at The Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas. When the painting is revealed, it appears to be a nude painting. Sandra is shocked because she posed in a bathing suit. She sues both the artist and the hotel. She settles out of court for a reported $15,000. |
| October 56 | is one of the blondes with Tommy Noonan, master of ceremonies, at the Ballyhoo Ball in Los Angeles. The others are Juli Reding/Otis, Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield, and Kathy Marlowe. |
| arrives in a coffin lugged by six strapping pallbearers at the Hollywood publicist’s Ballyhoo Ball |
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| actor David Janssen, with whom she stars in the TV pilot for “Richard Diamond, Private Detective,” is one of her serious romances |
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| her mother operates several Sandra Shops in Los Angeles |
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| April 57 | her measurements (according to Picturegoer) are: 36-24-36 |
| July 57 | is on the cover of Vue |
| October 57 | is seen at the Eldorado with Kansas theater owner Elmer Rhoden |
| tagged the Hollywood look-alike for Jayne Mansfield, she is cancelled from “The Tom Duggan Television Show,” an interview program, for showing "more cleavage than clothing" |
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| September 57 | attends the opening of English singer Georgia Brown at the Mocambo with Elmer Rhoden |
| December 57 | is named "Miss 8-Ball" by the Los Angeles Press Club |
| 58 | tests for God’s Little Acre, but the role goes to Fay Spain |
| arrives at the premiere of Teacher's Pet in a pink-mink Thunderbird. “It looks horrible, but Sandra has covered the outside of the car with a pink-dyed synthetic fur.” |
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| is featured in Life |
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| April 56 | columnist Harrison Carroll notes: “Pink T Bird, one of the pictures producer Elmer C. Rhoden, Jr., has planned for Sandra Giles to follow Daddy-O, will be written around the story of how Sandra actually was discovered in a delicatessen by a publicity man...” |
| April 58 | Carroll returns to her: ”Tense moment when blonde and voluptuous Sandra Giles excused herself from her date, Sy Devore, at the Mocambo, started to the powder room and was intercepted by an irate admirer. They went outside, argued for a while, and Sandra came back weeping...” |
| June 58 | tells the police that someone broke into her apartment just to steal 75 photographs of her |
| November 58 | is photographed at a New York restaurant with fellow blonde starlet Juli Reding |
| December 58 | is seen with Lee Fleischman and fellow blonde Juli Reding at Candy Barr's Club Largo opening |
| duets with Tom Lane, the ex of actress Rhonda Fleming |
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| 59 | is the paramour of producer Elmer Rhoden, a mainstay of West Coast tire commercials, who wants a vehicle for her. He comes up with $100,000 for Daddy-O, starring accordionist Dick Contino. |
| February 59 | is seen at the Luau with George Jessel |
| is the date of Lord Tony Furness of the Vanderbilt clan |
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| May 59 | attends Betty Duncan's opening at Dino's Lodge with Charles Offer |
| July 59 | is seen at the Cloister with Lee Fleischman |
| attends the Mary Kaye Trio opening at the Cloisters with Glen Rose. Her admirer, Lee Fleischman, comes with starlet Dyan Cannon. |
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| August 59 | is on the cover of Escapade |
| she and Julian Ludwig discover each other |
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| is the date of actor John Barrymore, Jr. |
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| September 59 | attends George Hamilton's 20th birthday party with Skip Krask |
| is taken to dinner at the Captain's Table by Julian Ludwig |
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| December 59 | attends Buzz Mahan's cocktail party at the 7 Chefs with Chuck Moroni |
| January 60 | attends Dinah Washington's opening at the Cloisters with Randy Prince |
| February 60 | is seen at the Cloisters with Mac Krim |
| March 60 | is reported living with her grandmother, 8-year-old daughter and a young French actress |
| August 60 | is seen with actor Bruce Cabot |
| gets engaged to California contractor Paul Robertson |
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| November 60 | Carroll knows: “Wealthy Paul Robertson had to borrow $400 from Phil Tanzini at the Cloister when he and Sandra Giles suddenly decided to charter a plane and elope to Las Vegas. As already itemed, they couldn’t get married after they arrived because Paul remembered his divorce wasn’t quite final...” |
| 1 December 60 | she and Robertson say they will be married at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles on December 2 |
| 2 December 60 | marries Newport Beach builder and yachtsman, Paul Robertson. He's 30; she's 25. It's the second marriage for both. |
| Early 60s | is signed to a ten-picture deal, but the producer suddenly passes away |
| 60s | dates Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine, and Trini Lopez, among well-known others |
| December 62 | serves as grand marshal at the 16th annual All-Southland Salute to Santa Claus Band Review held in Huntington Beach |
| July 64 | columnist Harrison Carroll tells: “The beautiful redhead with Bill Holmes on Sandra Giles’ and Paul Robertson’s yacht at Catalina was Rusty Allen...” |
| May 65 | Carroll knows: “That was Carol Weber Bartlett, ex-wife of producer Sy Bartlett, with Kem Dibbs at Sandra Giles Robertson’s tennis party...” |
| October 65 | from Rome, Linda Christian is reported “showing the town to Sandra Giles’ estranged husband, Paul Robertson...” |
| 19 October 65 | files suit for divorce from Robertson in Santa Monica claiming extreme cruelty |
| November 65 | attends Jack Ryan’s party with Ross Martin |
| December 65 | Carroll reports about her divorce: “Looks as if this will be another default hearing, because the estranged pair agreed on a property settlement, about which Sandra is very happy. She gets a new home in Westwood. Most important for this beautiful tennis buff: it has its own court...” |
| 30 March 66 | is granted an interlocutory divorce decree from Robertson in Los Angeles. She tells the court Robertson would go away on his boat “anywhere from two days to two weeks, and I’d never know where he was” |
| April 66 | throws a swinging all-star birthday soiree for Joi Lansing, who comes with her husband Stan Todd. Other guests are Lisa Seagram with Robert Rombeau, “who often dates Sandra”; Margo Chipman with Skip Krask; Mac Krim with Judy Sau; Jeanne Taylor with Bill Holmes; Linda Meyers with Dick Bakalyan; Eleanor Parker with Dr. Marty Goldfarb; Joyce Williams with Sol West; Eileen O’Neill with real estate man Mark Nathanson; Carol Collins with Peter Rothschild; Jill Donahue with Tony Hayes; and Connie Hines with Nick Hayes. |
| is noted at the Daisy Club with Robert Rombeau |
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| July 66 | is seen at Charles V with actor James Arness |
| is seen at the Daisy Club with Karl Brent |
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| Early August 66 | Sol West throws a swinging birthday party for her at his home. Frank Calcagnini is her date. Others there are Juli Reding with Roy Sciacca, Tommy Gallagher with Suzanne Pleshette, and Sandra’s sister, Nina, with Robert Rombeau. |
| August 66 | is noted at La Scala with Dave Gerber |
| she and Bobby Darin are a surprise twosome at the party for Carolyn Jones after her opening in High Spirits |
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| September 66 | she and millionaire Ed Hand are a frequent twosome at the Daisy Club |
| Early October 66 | columnist Harrison Carroll tells from the Daisy Club: "Most envied man, perhaps, was Las Vegas hotel executive Abe Phillips, who'll open the enlarged Frontier next July. He was with three dolls, Sandra Giles, Lisa Seagram and Dianne Boyd..." |
| Octoiber 66 | she and Abe Phillips are among the ringsiders at Choo Choo Collins’ opening at Dino’s Lodge |
| November 66 | she and actor Ross Martin are experimenting apart |
| she and Ross Martin are noted at the Other Place to hear the west Coast Pop Art Experimental Band |
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| December 66 | attends Henry Kingston’s surprise birthday party for his mother with J. Rob Jordan |
| attends Juli Reding’s birthday party at the Villa Nova Up Room with Tony Scotti |
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| January 67 | she and Sondra Scott host a party at Paul Wexler’s house. Sandra’s with George Guinle and Sondra, with Tony Scotti. Wexler, one of the owners of Dino’s Lodge is with Evelyn Dutton. Other guests include Nancy Walter with Louis Shurr, Shirley Webb with Jacques Bergerac, Juli Reding with Roy Sciacca, Pat Crosby with Ted Witzer, Lisa Seagram with Don Key, Sy Bartlett with Dodie Marshall, Hannie Landman with Richard Tatro, and Joy Monroe with Johnny Anderson. |
| June 67 | goes with Mac Krim to the press party at the Wheel, formerly the Other Place |
| December 67 | she and Omar Sharif are among the twosomes at the Factory |
| Late February 68 | Carroll reports that her ex-husband Paul Robertson was found dead in Rome. “He had gone over to package a show for Ty Hardin. It was Ty’s wife who found his body. Sandra called me in tears to say she was flying over to bring the body home.” |
| August 68 | gives a dinner party at Stefanino’s to help her daughter Sandra and son-in-law Larry Brony celebrate their second week of marriage |
| December 68 | attends the Acapulco Film Festival ball with Clint Ritchie |
| is seen at La Scala with James Kerr |
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| June 69 | columnist Barney Glazer reports that “James Caan found still another Sandra – Sandra Giles...” |
| October 69 | lives in a comfortable spacious apartment in an elegant area near UCLA's campus |
| January 69 | attends Juli Reding’s birthday bash for Herb Hutner with Clint Ritchie |
| July 73 | attends the Ross Martin Celebrity Tournament at La Costa |
| August 74 | attends the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Tennis Tournament with Bobby Riggs |
| September 74 | is seen at the 21 Club with Bobby Riggs |
| 90s | sells real estate in the Los Angeles area |
| 97 | owns a restaurant-dance club called Passion at 12215 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, California |
| ? | as Sandra B. Giles, she resides in Beverly Hills |
| 25 December 16 | dies at age 84 at her home in the Hancock Park region of Los Angeles |
| Sources: Oshkash Northwestern, The Vidette-Messenger, Van Nuys News, The Herald-Press, The Daily Gleaner, The Zanesville Signal, Nevada State Journal, The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, The Times Recorder, The Lima News, News Journal-Mansfield, The Valley Independent, Bucks County Courier Times, Tease, Oakland Tribune, The Independent Record, The Kansas City Star, Press-Telegram, New Castle News, Kokomo Morning Times, Dick Contino at The Astounding B Monster, Sandra Piller, www.Ancestry.com | |
| Recommended Books: Fifties Blondes by Richard Koper Pat: A Biography of Hollywood's Blonde Starlet by Samuel Clemens | |
| Links: Filmography Interview with Sandra Giles by Jennifer George Interview with Sandra Giles by Joan Quinn | |