Stephanie Griffin Profile

Stephanie Griffin

	(Stephanie Diane Griffin)
27 March 34	is born in Valley City, Medina County, Ohio
38	moves with her parents to Santa Cruz, California
41	moves to Hollywood
?	graduates from Liverpool High School
?	operates an elevator at Saks in Beverly Hills when actor Alan Ladd's wife notes her and suggests an acting career
July 53	posing for photographer Andre de Dienes, she is heralded a 19-year-old actress model of Cleveland, Ohio
January 54	columnist Harrison Carroll reports from Ciro's to have met her, "with whom Look magazine is shooting a layout about a girl trying to crash the movies..."
May 54	"An ektachrome of lovely Stephanie Griffin appears on the cover of the June issue of Pageant magazine. It is her sixth pose on the magazine's cover since Pageant discovered her two years ago, running a department store elevator."
August 54	competes in the "Miss Rheingold of 1955" contest, the "second largest election in the United States. Lined up with her are Grace Brown of New York, Susan Alexander of North Hollywood, Nancy Woodruff of New York, Jean Moorehead of Santa Monica, and Barbara Wilson of Pasadena. "In a few months one of these lovely models will be $50,000 richer after the polls close."
September 54	columnist Walter Winchell knows that she, "who may win the "Miss Rheingold" contest, gets her divorce decree next month..."
3 June 55	marries theatrical agent David L. March in Santa Barbara, California
April 56	replaces Terry Moore in The Last Wagon, after her picture appeared on eighteen magazine covers in approximately twelve months
5 September 56	she and March separate
14 October 56	March files suit for divorce against her charging adultery. He claims she was intimate with businessman James Raskin on several occasions between last September 10 and October 12. March is 40; she's 22.
6 November 56	March drops his divorce suit against her, clearing the way for prosecution of her own divorce complaint alleging cruelty
14 December 56	wins a divorce from March in Los Angeles on testimony that "he said I was like an inanimate object, that I couldn't think." She waives alimony and agrees to pay all community debts up to $4,000.
March 57	obtains a Mexican divorce and marries James Leonard Raskin, a Montana lumber millionaire, the same day
March 57	she and Raskin honeymoon in Mexico
7 October 58	her daughter Kathleen Corrie is born in Los Angeles
24 August 59	her daughter Jamianne Lynn is born in Los Angeles
18 August 69	her daughter Tamara Cecilia is born in Los Angeles
c. 74	resides in Holmby Hills, Westwood, Los Angeles
10 December 78	as Kathleen Corrie Schiller, her daughter Kathleen dies at age 20
20 October 04	becomes the widow of Raskin, who dies at age 77 in Beverly Hills
19 November 15	dies in Granada Hills, California

Sources: Samuel Clemens, Cathy Ellis, Chronicle-Telegram, The Independent, The Bridgeport Post, Syracuse Post-Standard, The News, The Lethbridge Herald, The Coshocton Tribune, Picturegoer, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Charleston Daily Mail, The Kansas City Times, www.Ancestry.com
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