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Pamela Duncan Profile
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| 29 December 24 / 32 | is born in New York City |
| ? | earns an MA degree at Columbia University |
| October 51 | columnist Walter Winchell reports that she and actor Brian Donlevy "are melting icebergs" |
| January 52 | she and Donlevy are seen at the Beverly Hills Club |
| August 53 | columnist Edith Gwynn reports that Pamela’s, "a new film find with a 'five-foot shelf,' and Marshall Wright, hotel executive, are a current excitement” |
| June 54 | advertises for Hollywood Bread |
| February 55 | is on the cover of Night & Day |
| December 55 | is Lance Fuller’s date at the Captain's Table. The night before, Fuller was seen with Kay Brown at Jacks at the Beach. |
| February 56 | is Dave Wolper’s date at Nat "King" Cole's opening at Ciro's |
| May 57 | sports a new Thunderbird, "the result of all her work recently. She's been in Hollywood a couple of years but never set foot on a movie lot until a month ago. She stuck strictly to TV till she thought she was ready for the flicks and bigger billing." |
| July 57 | is seen at the Eldorado with Lance Fuller |
| August 57 | columnist Lee Mortimer asks: "If actor Steve Cochran is talking marriage with Denise Darcel, how come he was in Hollywood's Billy Gray's Bandbox two nights running with Pamela Duncan, of the flicks, and purty, too?..." |
| October 57 | is seen at the Eldorado with Don Durant |
| November 57 | columnist Walter Winchell reports "Pat Conway, hero of 'Tombstone Territory,' the new television series, went that-a-way with actress Pamela Duncan, leading lady of last week's "Winchell File." They go to the hitching point next spring..." |
| July 58 | the press heralds her a "Famous Unknown" after 200 live TV shows, 100 telefilms and six movies. She's expected to break through in the upcoming Gun Battle at Monterey. |
| September 58 | her escort at the Cocoanut Grove is Steve Cochran |
| 9 November 59 | is among the 1959 Hollywood Deb stars presented by Bob Hope on his NBC-TV show. The others are Carol Douglas, Maggie Pierce, Yvette Mimieux, Leslie Parrish, Barbara Lawson, Linda Hutchins, Hope, Diane McBain, Shirley Knight, and Sherry Jackson. |
| January 60 | promotes a breakfast nook pattern in local newspapers |
| August 60 | helps Max Bear, Jr., son of the late heavyweight champion, to get a talk with casting directors at MGM and Warner Brothers |
| September 60 | Winchell writes: "I'm a dizzy in a tizzy: What's with Max Bear, Jr., and Pamela Duncan?" |
| October 61 | is queen hostess at Worthington's Dodge City Popularity Queen Contest in North Hollywood |
| June 01 | resides at the Lillian Booth Actors' Fund of America Home in Englewood, New Jersey, and swaps stories of glory days gone by. She remembers casting directors likened her to Rita Hayworth and put her in hundreds of films: "I wonder how I got so lucky." |
| 11 November 05 | dies at age 72 / 80 in Englewood, New Jersey, of complications from a stroke |
| Sources: Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, Nevada State Journal, Great Bend Daily Tribune, Pottstown Mercury, The Daily Independent, The Lethbridge Herald, The Hammond Times, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Vidette-Messenger, Reno Evening Gazette, The Daily Courier, The News, The Chronicle-Telegram, www.Ancestry.com, pro.Corbis.com | |
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