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Dolores Moran Profile
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| 26 January 26 | is born in Stockton, California, the daughter of James G. "Jim" Moran and his wife, Mary Esther Moran, nee Whitlow |
| Mid-30s | her family moves to Orland, California, where her father becomes a popular Shell Oil Company distributor and where her mother opens a beauty parlor |
| 2 June 39 | graduates from Orland Grammar School |
| c. 39 | is a car hop in a drive-in in Sunnyvale, California |
| c. 41 | her father is transferred and the family moves to Chico, California, twenty miles east of Orland |
| 18 April 41 | is winner of the 4th District Lions Club public speaking contest. "Democracy in a Changing World" is title of her speech. |
| May 41 | is crowned "Queen of the Butte County Fair" by California governor Culbert L. Olson. Her prize is an expense-paid trip via Greyhound bus to Yosemite National Park. |
| July 41 | visits Yosemite, where she is photographed by photographers from National Geographic magazine |
| is a guest on Commander Scott's "Romance of the Highway," a Greyhound radio broadcast in San Francisco |
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| 31 August 41 | is awarded third place out of a field of 50 in a competition for the "Girl of the Golden West" title at the California State Fair, Sacramento |
| ? | is spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout at the annual Elks picnic in Sacramento |
| November 41 | is invited to Hollywood for interviews and immediately placed in a special training school by Warner Brothers studio |
| December 41 | enrolls in Warner Brothers' special school to complete high school studies and has 3 hours of dramatic study in the afternoons |
| is awarded a 5-year movie contract with Warner Brothers |
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| January 42 | is a 15-year-old beauty queen from Butte County, California, and has to receive court approval of her movie contract |
| the Orland Chamber of Commerce lodges vigorous protest with Warner Brothers publicity department referring to Dolores as "a Chico product" when she was "one of Orland's daughters" and that Orland was her hometown |
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| Spring 42 | a "Dolores Moran Movie Club" is formed at Orland High School by former friends and classmates |
| April 42 | her mother sells her beauty shop in Orland |
| June 42 | her younger sister, Marjorie Moran, graduates from Orland High School, and then the family moves to Hollywood |
| March 43 | catches the eye of actor Jimmy Stewart |
| April 43 | will pose for the "Glamour Goddess" statuette to be entered in the National Plastics competition in New York in July |
| 16 April 43 | is on the cover of Yank, The Army Weekly |
| June 43 | is featured in Esquire |
| July 43 | make-up wizard Perc Westmore colors her hair "Palladium Blonde" |
| November 43 | receives a complaint from some male neighbors because she sun bathes in her back yard with little on |
| March 44 | is selected by former "Flying Tiger" pilots in China as their "Tiger Girl" |
| April 44 | is presented with an identification bracelet by Jess Barker. Barker will marry actress Susan Hayward in July. |
| 9 April 44 | is on the cover of Yank, The Army Weekly |
| August 44 | is a twosome with Humphrey Bogart's cousin, Lieutenant Bob Rob |
| November 44 | is seen out with air hero Major Gus Daymond. The two will be off to Yuma. |
| February 45 | Daymond is the Number 1 boy in her life |
| March 45 | receives a daily bouquet from Archduke Felix of Austria, the 28-year-old son of the late Karl I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| the only thing standing between her and producer Ben Bogeaus is the refusal of his estranged wife, 23-year-old actress Mimi Forsythe, to give him a divorce |
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| September 45 | suffers from her diet |
| October 45 | is named the "Anti-Smog" girl by Hollywood still photographers |
| April 46 | breaks off with Bogeaus |
| May 46 | dines at the Seacombers with Ben Bogeaus |
| June 46 | is seen seldom minus Bogeaus but will not be in his upcoming A Miracle Can Happen |
| July 46 | trips out of Bogeaus' life and is seen with another producer. Bogeaus squires starlet Bettye Avery. |
| August 46 | is seen at the California Cabana Club with 44-year-old actor-turned-director Leslie Fenton |
| c. August 46 | marries Benedict E. Bogeaus secretly in Salome, Arizona. He's 42; she's 22. |
| September 46 | reveals her marriage to Bogeaus |
| Christmas 46 | she and her husband spend the holidays in Connecticut with Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith |
| January 48 | she and her husband are off to Havana, Cuba |
| July 48 | has been off screen for health reasons for nearly two years |
| 30 August 48 | her son, Brett Benedict, is born in Hollywood |
| August 49 | gets the part originally scheduled for Ida Lupino in her husband's upcoming The Diamond Necklace |
| August 51 | she and her father, James G. Moran, secretary-manager of the Van Nuys Chamber of Commerce, visit Ben Bogeaus, who's in Mexico for a period of several months to make pictures |
| February 52 | there's a serious wobble in her marriage to Bogeaus |
| August 52 | when producer Benedict Bogeaus announces he will leave his wife Mimi Forsythe for Moran, Mimi takes her own life at age 30 |
| 17 August 52 | Bogeaus' ex-wife, retired actress Mimi Forsythe, is dead on arrival at Santa Monica Hospital. She was taken to the hospital from a hotel where she had been living for a short time with a maid. |
| November 55 | she and her husband give a lovely reception at their Bel Air home for newlyweds Yvonne DeCarlo and Bob Morgan |
| 57 | actress Debra Paget considers her one of the most beautiful women in the world when she films From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Bogeaus, at Churubusco Studios in Mexico City |
| February 62 | files for divorce from Bogeaus in Los Angeles, California. She's 35; he's 57. She charges cruelty. He will die from a heart attack at age 64 in 1968 in Los Angeles. |
| December 68 | hits the news when she inherits $250,000 from 58-year-old bachelor Anthony Ponce, whom she served as a car hop in a drive-in 27 years ago. His surprised relatives contest their uncle's will. |
| 5 February 82 | as Dolores Moran Bogeaus, she dies at age 56 in Woodland Hills, California. Her mother and her sister survive. |
| Sources: Gene H. Russell, Van Nuys News, Times-Bulletin, Mansfield News-Journal, Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, The Zanesville Signal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Nevada State Journal, Waterloo Daily Courier, The Era, Lincoln Journal, Middletown Times Herald, The Times Recorder, Chronicle-Telegram, The Monessen Daily Independent, Dixon Evening Telegraph, The New York Times, The Gettysburg Times, Bucks County Courier Times, Screen World, Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks by Tom Weaver, Yvonne by Yvonne De Carlo, www.Ancestry.com | |
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