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Tina Louise Profile
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| 11 February 34 | is born in New York City. Her father owns a Brooklyn candy store, but her mother's remarriage to wealthy Dr. John Myers turn her into a debutante. |
| ? | attends Miami University in Ohio |
| 53 | is on the New York stage in Almanac’s |
| December 53 | as Tina Louise Myers she is voted Number 1 Deb of 1953 |
| January 54 | dates actor Franchot Tone, the ex of Joan Crawford |
| May 54 | is elected queen of the Artists Equity Ball in New York |
| April 55 | her frequent escort at Gilmore’s is rich textiler I. Geist |
| June 55 | will join Mickey Rooney in his upcoming film musical Hinky Dinky Parlez Vouz |
| August 55 | does the New York hot spots with paper heir Bill Wakeman |
| December 55 | is rediscovered by Franchot Tone |
| is the date of James McKinley Bryant, who recently saw Sonja Henie off to London |
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| takes her nightclub act to St. Louis |
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| January 56 | her big secret is being a bit player in Broadway’s Pipe Dream |
| steals the show in Studio One |
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| March 56 | her new escort is attorney Sinclair Robinson, ex-beau of Hope Hampton |
| May 56 | warbles at the Sahara in Las Vegas and misses Gerald LaZarre of the Pipe Dream cast more than anything else in New York |
| Ray Bolger signs her for his TV show next fall |
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| finds disc jockey Bill Williams more than diverting |
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| November 56 | her date is the Duke of Imperia |
| December 56 | enjoys ripe conversation with Julie Newmar at Dick Shawn’s party for Arthur Godfrey losers |
| ? | is crowned "Bicycle Queen" |
| ? | is crowned "Idaho Potato Peel Appeal Girl" |
| 57 | is predecessor to Julie Newmar as "Miss 100% Pure" |
| releases her record album "It's Time for Tina" with Urania Records |
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| February 57 | sues stripper Tana Louise who claims that’s her real name |
| March 57 | testifies in defense for the reputation of her mother, Betty Myers, 43, in New York Supreme Court. Mrs. Myers is in a counter separation suit with her industrial husband, Dr. John Myers, 67. The angry Dr. Myers questioned a lot of Broadwayites about Betty’s friends, with particular interest centered on a talented dress designer. There are rumors that Tina’s involved, too. |
| April 57 | she and fellow actress Monique Van Vooren decorate the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation telethon |
| is elected queen of the Art Students League costume benefit ball in New York. She presents the first prize of $200 to the winners wearing costumes depicting stained glass Gothic windows. |
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| she and fellow actress Abbe Lane are frequent guests at New York’s Absinthe House |
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| is featured in Esquire |
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| June 57 | has her act at Le Cupidon |
| July 57 | is Appasionata Von Climax in the Broadway production of Li'l Abner. Actor Montgomery Clift will do an oil painting of her in that show but title it Roxanne. |
| does the mambo with designer Elgee Bove at Angel Lopez’ Chateau Madrid |
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| August 57 | she and her mother dress alike at Johnny’s Keyboard |
| she and Buddy Hackett leave for Los Angeles to film God’s Little Acre. While away, her part in Li’l Abner is offered to Vikki Dougan. |
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| January 58 | a party is tossed for her and Joey Adams at Le Cupidon. Bobo Rockefeller attends. |
| duet-a-tetes with Bill Wakeman at the Spindletop |
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| April 58 | has a new Broadway feud with Julie Newmar, her successor at Li’l Abner |
| June 58 | is a romantic duo with actor Lance Fuller at Phil Ahn’s Moongate in Panorama City, California |
| July 58 | is seen with Fuller at the Gourmet Beverly |
| September 58 | breaks off with the one-and-only who was going to get a divorce to marry her but keeps the diamonds |
| October 58 | attends a Hollywood party given by Milton Berle honoring Carl Sandburg. The event hits the news when Gary Crosby’s alleged insulting of a guest leads to a brief wrestling on the floor of the Rodeo Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel. James Mason has to separate the fighters. |
| lives in an apartment near Gramercy Park, New York City |
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| November 58 | has become an almost steady twosome with Aldo Ray after filming God's Little Acre |
| Robert Ryan wants her to play opposite him in Day of the Outlaw |
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| December 58 | is seen at the Gourmet Beverly with Hugh French |
| January 59 | is seen at the Kon-Tiki in Montreal |
| has been married once and hopes to marry some day again |
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| February 59 | she and Merv Griffin are angry with each other |
| March 59 | her agent asks for the Lana Turner-vacated part in Otto Preminger’s upcoming Anatomy of a Murder. The role will finally go to Lee Remick. |
| dates actor-singer Vic Damone |
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| May 59 | her escort to New York’s stage hit Our Town is Dr. Lee Salk, brother of famous Jonas Salk |
| June 59 | attends the premiere of John Paul Jones with Marty Kimmel |
| July 59 | is seen at Chasen’s with Ray Anthony, the ex of Mamie Van Doren |
| gets long-distance calls from young actor Tony Perkins |
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| is maid of honor at actress Greta Thyssen’s wedding to Ron Starr |
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| August 59 | is the date of Ted Jordan, the ex of stripper Lili St. Cyr |
| October 59 | is considered for the upcoming Salambo, but her part goes to Jeanne Valerie |
| is seen at La Rue’s with Milton Stevens |
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| November 59 | is off to Rome to film The Siege of Syracuse. She claims that after working 12 hours a day she’ll be glad to get back to the States, where working hours are limited by SAG regulations. |
| catches the eye of Italian actor Walter Chiari, ex-beau of Ava Gardner and Anita Ekberg |
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| December 59 | helps Brazilian millionaire Francesco "Baby" Pignatari spend his time and money in Rome |
| 60 | is still single and measures 38-25-36 |
| January 60 | her romance with Sheldon Reynolds is the real thing |
| 3 March 60 | she and Nancy Sinatra greet Elvis Presley upon his return from Germany at the Fort Dix, New Jersey, military base |
| May 60 | attends the Cannes Film Festival in Southern France. She stays at the Carlton Hotel. |
| July 60 | finishes Sappho in Rome and signs for a starring role in Roberto Rossellini’s Viva L’Italia |
| September 60 | is caught in London campaigning for John F. Kennedy: "I adore politics. The Democrats will win the elections and I hope the first thing do is choose Stevenson for Secretary of State." |
| October 60 | her mother, Betty Myers, levels sensational charges against multi-millionaire Dr. John Myers |
| December 60 | there are rumors about her and young actor Burt Reynolds, playing together in Armored Command, which is filmed abroad in Europe |
| tells the Paris press she wouldn’t mind marrying playwright Arthur Miller |
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| January 61 | sublets Jack Lemmon’s Central Park South apartment |
| she and Tony Perkins, each back from Europe, say a fast hello at the Four Seasons |
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| February 61 | is seen around Hollywood in a blonde wig |
| March 61 | her Italian movies are scheduled for release in the United States |
| Italian director Rossellini wants her back in Italy for a picture |
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| will star in the pilot film of the "Some Like It Hot" television series |
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| February 62 | is an attention-getting duo at the Brasserie with hotelman Conrad Hilton |
| 11 February 62 | she and her New York roommate, model-actress Gita Hall, the ex of Barry Sullivan, give a party on Tina’s birthday. They invite 8 other girls and 40 men, among them actor Hugh O’Brien; composer Bob Merrill; Peter Duchin; Claude Terail, maitre of the Tour d’Argent of Paris; and playwright Arthur Kopit. |
| March 62 | is seen out with Dr. Ernest Wyler, the ex-date of Kim Novak. The next night, Wyler’s seen out with her roommate, Gita Hall. |
| April 62 | has a feud with socialite-actress Dina Merrill |
| attends the premiere of Boys Night Out with playboy S. Ungar |
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| catches the interest of Conrad Hilton |
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| July 62 | is seen at the Coconut Grove with "Beau" Belinsky |
| November 62 | her date at Erika’s is Dr. Barry Moss |
| April 63 | her escort at the opening of Perona’s is wealthy Miamian Ricky Ricardo |
| January 64 | director George Abbott wants her for his upcoming A Girl to Remember, to start at the Mark Hellinger Theater in May |
| February 64 | is cozy with Tommy Leonetti at Shepheard’s, celebrating her birthday |
| is one of 19 candidates voted into the Actors Studio |
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| January 65 | CBS threatens her with a $50,000 lawsuit. Allegedly she took two days off work on "Gilligan’s Island" because of illness and spent it doing picture layouts for a national magazine. |
| April 65 | does the scene with Tommy Leonetti |
| has a whirlwind romance with television moderator Les Crane, who quietly got a Mexican divorce |
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| May 65 | she and Crane decide it wasn’t the real thing |
| makes the New York discotheque scene with Lee Marvin. He’s in town to promote his Ship of Fools. |
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| June 65 | has a warm friendship with Jim Aubrey |
| January 66 | is in Broadway’s Cactus Flower |
| she and Crane move their marriage date forward from June to March 20, the anniversary of their first meeting. It probably will be in San Francisco. |
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| February 66 | comic Larry Wilde, who introduced Les Crane to her, will be best man at the wedding on April 3. They’ll honeymoon in the Greek Isles. |
| pals suspect her romance with Les is over |
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| 3 April 66 | marries Crane in Beverly Hills. He’s 29; she’s 28. |
| May 66 | is seen at Norby Walter’s with her husband and declares, "the honeymoon’s over" |
| June 66 | she and Crane plot a belated honeymoon trip to Mexico |
| ? | she and Crane move into a house in the Hidden Valley section of Coldwater Canyon |
| ? | becomes an expert at T’ai Chi Ch’uan, "a system of exercises for the thinking man" |
| November 69 | attends the opening of Tony Bennett at the Ambassador Hotel’s Coconut Grove |
| Summer 70 | files for divorce from Crane after a four-year marriage, even though she expects her first child on October 23. She says that they both were aware of the pregnancy before they separated, "the rest is too personal to talk about." |
| June 70 | divorces Crane in Los Angeles |
| 25 August 70 | will receive $5,000 a month in temporary alimony and child support |
| 3 November 70 | her daughter, Caprice Alexandra, is born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles |
| May 72 | admits she’s husband-hunting |
| May 74 | seeks an injunction against the Emmys ceremonies, wanting to have the telecast stopped on the grounds the new award structure is unfair. |
| March 77 | is off to Australia for the filming of Puzzle opposite James Franciscus |
| April 77 | is seen around with Dr. Louis Scarrone, ex-escort of Liz Taylor |
| April 89 | helps raise money for Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe vs. Wade abortion case |
| 90 | publishes her book Sunday, about her childhood experiences in a boarding school |
| March 94 | considers a lawsuit against Ted Turner, who owns the rights to "Gilligan’s Island." The show has run for decades in syndication, but she and the fellow castaways have never received a red cent in royalties. |
| May 94 | puts her three-bedroom house on the edge of Beverly Hills on the market for $1.2 million. The ranch home boasts a koi pond, a 40-foot pool, and a guesthouse. |
| February 98 | attends a celebrity scrabble tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York |
| 02 | lives in New York City |
| Sources: The Zanesville Signal, Times-Bulletin, Nevada State Journal, Indiana Evening Gazette, The Coshocton Tribune, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Mansfield-News-Journal, Burlington Daily Times-News, The Lima News, The Hammond Times, The Press-Gazette, The Daily Intelligencer, Van Nuys News, The Vidette-Messenger, The Odessa American, The Newark Advocate, The Times Recorder, The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, The Palladium-Times, The Sheboygan Press, The Hubbard News, Entertainment, The Post-Standard, The Coshocton Tribune, Parade, The Valley Independent, The Post-Crescent, Bucks County Courier Times, Bandwagon, The News, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars by Tim Brooks, Starlet by Kim Holston, Dell's Who's Who on the Screen, Celebrity Sleuth, Movie Mirror, www.IMDb.com, Confidential | |
| Recommended Books: The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Chris Strodder | |
| Links: Filmography Love Goddess: Tina Louise Brian's Drive-In Theater: Tina Louise retroCRUSH: Tina Louise | |