Judy Bamber Profile

Judy Bamber

	(Judith L. Bamber)
36	is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of German-English and American Indian descent. Her father's a chemical engineer with the Ford Motor Company.
?	attends Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan
?	starts modeling while still in high school
?	works as a carhop, a clerk in a laundry, a baby-sitter, and a dishwasher
55	moves to California
	begins modeling and owns her own agency for a while
?	models for the J.C. Penney catalog
?	does live television commercials
?	is discovered by Nils Thor Granlund. He sets her up with dramatic coach Joe Graham.
?	attends the Warner Brothers Acting School
?	her personal manager, Byron Griffith, gets her contracts with American International Pictures and Warner Brothers
February 57	is on the cover of and featured in Scan
May 57	is on the cover of Vue
July 57	is tested by Warner Brothers. She fits nicely into the blonde-bombshell niche, a lá Barbara Lang and Jayne Mansfield.
December 57	is on the cover of Glamor Parade
58	is George Fenneman’s co-host on the TV quiz show “Anybody Can Play”
c. 58	is tested by Alfred Hitchcock for his upcoming Vertigo
April 58	is on the cover of Modern Man
September 58	is featured in Scamp
60	her cat, Xerxes, is used in Monstrosity, her last film, filmed at a mansion on West Adams Boulevard in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles
Early 60s	is the “Hertz Girl” for a New York ad agency
?	adopts a boy, Louis I., who was born in Los Angeles on September 13, 1962
	retires to raise her family
11 November 67	marries Douglas W. McClary in California. He's 36; she's 31.
18 November 71	her son Brooks S. is born in Los Angeles
4 February 04	McClary dies at age 72 in California
04	remarries
08	resides in California
January 17	her brother, George Bamber of Fallbrook, California, gets killed when a tree crushes his car

Sources: "Judy Bamber: The Sci-Fi Stalwarts" by Tom Weaver in Classic Images, "Judy Bamber: The Beauty Behind the Atomic Brain" by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell in Scary Monsters Magazine, Modern Man, Vue, Scamp, Screen Stories, www.Ancestry.com
Recommended Books: Fifties Blondes by Richard Koper
Links: Filmography