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Lola Albright Profile
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(Lois Jean Albright) |
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20 July 24/25 | is born in Akron, Ohio, to John Paul and Marion Alma Albright, both evangelistic singers |
? | attends King Grammar School and West High School |
? | at age 15 she obtains a job as receptionist-typist at radio station WAKR |
? | at age 18 she moves to Cleveland for a job as a stenographer and switchboard operator with NBC at WTAM |
? | moves to station WJW and starts playing bits on their variety and dramatic programs |
44 | marries a radio executive, who has children from a former marriage, and moves with him to Chicago |
? | top photographer Paul Hesse encourages her to consider a career in films |
her parents relocate to Southern California |
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47 | MGM tests her and puts her under contract |
48 | under the name of Lola Deem, she appears in Easter Parade. Fellow actress Elaine Sterling, a.k.a. Sara Shane, will later remember her breathtaking beauty. |
Early 50s | is a frequent model for pinup painter Gil Elvgren |
50 | misses out on The Asphalt Jungle. Her part goes to newcomer Marilyn Monroe. |
stars with Jack Carson in The Good Humor Man. They start to date seriously. |
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April 50 | will marry Carson after his divorce from Kay St. Germaine |
1 August 52 | marries Carson at the Little Brown Church in the Valley near Los Angeles |
57 | her marriage has become shaky |
10 November 58 | receives a divorce from Carson in Los Angeles, stating that their careers clashed. Jack wanted a wife at home, and she, a career. |
19 May 61 | marries pianist and restaurant owner William C. Chadney at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas |
? | the Chadneys have a trial separation but eventually reconcile |
December 74 | divorces Chadney in Los Angeles |
23 March 17 | dies at age 92 in a home in the Toluca Lake enclave of Los Angeles |
Sources: Classic Images, Hollywood Players: The Forties by James Robert Parish, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, Modern Screen, www.Ancestry.com | |
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