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Constance Towers Profile
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| (Constance Mary Towers) |
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| 22 March 33 | is born in Whitefish, Montana, the daughter of a druggist |
| c. 45 | works as an usherette at a small town theater at age 12. When she accidentally sets fire to the popcorn machine, she's fired on the spot. |
| ? | develops a beautiful soprano voice |
| c. January 56 | performs at New York's Maisonette Room |
| January 56 | columnist Walter Winchell knows that she "won't reveal the name of her Canadian pursuitor, but he's a shipping tycoon..." |
| January 57 | Winchell thinks she, "the St. Regis lark and Robert Wilderer, ad agency executive, are a fifty-seventuality..." |
| ? | attracts the attention of Hollywood by appearing on "The Ed Sullivan Show" |
| February 59 | is set for the female lead in the Marty Rackin and John Lee Mahin production of Montego, to be shot in the West Indies in October. The film concerns a millionaire heiress who falls in love with the operator of a fishing boat. Mahin and Rackin want William Holden for the lead. |
| 1 April 59 | secretly marries businessman Eugene C. McGrath in Bloomington, San Bernardino County. He was formerly married to actress Terry Moore and operates a thriving insurance enterprise in Panama, where he has three brothers, including a 38-year-old arch bishop of the Catholic Church. She will reveal their marriage to the press on April 30. |
| 1 May 59 | she and McGrath are off to London, England, on a combined honeymoon and business trip |
| Late September 59 | finishes her role in Captain Buffalo and goes on a honeymoon with her husband of four months. Departing for Panama arm-in-arm, they tell columnist Earl Wilson: "There's no family on the way yet, but when it happens we'll send up a rocket." |
| November 59 | is reported ordering an electric run-about, a battery powered car |
| May 60 | expects her first child in August |
| June 60 | cuts a platter of the Captain Buffalo theme song |
| July 60 | her son, Michael Ford, is born in Nassau, Bahamas. She and her husband were on board their yacht South Wind when she had to be rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital. The birth is one month premature. His middle name is a salute to director John Ford who brought her into the big time in his picture, The Horse Soldiers. |
| Mid-January 61 | opens triumphantly at New York's Plaza Persian Room wearing one of her all-fringe dresses worth $10,000 |
| 29 December 61 | her second child, Mary Ardath Maureen, is born in Los Angeles |
| February 63 | producer Leon Fromkess chooses her for the singing strip teaser in his upcoming The Long Corridor, a Freudian thriller |
| March 63 | says she’ll spend about five months of the year in Panama and the rest of the time in movies, stage musicals, or supper clubs |
| ? | studies at Los Angeles' stripper temple The Pink Pussy Cat for her part in The Long Corridor |
| August 63 | is reported chummy with some members of the Kennedy clan and is noted as one of the nation's best-dressed women |
| October 63 | says she’ll raise her children to be bilingual |
| 25 March 64 | model fashions at the Heart Fund Benefit in Reno, Nevada |
| April 64 | singer-actor Howard Keel wants her for the part of Guinevere in his touring of Camelot |
| January 68 | opens at Palm Beach's Royal Poinciana Playhouse. Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post is among the celebrity guests. |
| December 69 | sings Indian Love Call at the 90th birthday party gala for Czech-born composer Rudolf Friml, held at the Shubert Theater in New York City |
| Summer 70 | does The Sound of Music at the Jones Beach Theater, Long Island |
| November 70 | will be among the guest stars of Guy Lombardo's "New Year from the Waldorf" show |
| Summer 71 | repeats her hit, The Sound of Music, at the Jones Beach Theater, Long Island |
| May 72 | she and actor John Gavin are reported resuming their romance. Friends say that because both are divorced Catholics, they can't get married in the Catholic Church and, therefore, won't marry at all. |
| September 74 | quietly marries John Gavin in Santa Monica. He's 46; she's 41. He has two daughters from a former marriage to Cecily Evans. |
| March 76 | columnist Earl Wilson spots her and Gavin at the Russian Tea Room |
| 77 | is on the New York stage in The King and I opposite Yul Brynner |
| Summer 80 | is again in The Sound of Music at the Jones Beach Theater, Long Island |
| December 80 | she and Gavin are among the guests at Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Getty's party at the Georgian Suite off Park Avenue. Other celebrities are Nancy and Zubin Mehta, the Prentiss Cobb Hales, Connie Mellon, Pane de Hoys, Count Vega de Ran, and Bill Chan. Peter Duchin is at the piano. |
| c. early 80s | President Ronald Reagan appoints her husband U.S. Ambassador to Mexico |
| 85 | is reported parting her time between her hostess duties at the embassy in Mexico City and her role in TV's daytime soap "Capitol" |
| Fall 85 | sets up her "Operation Connie" project to aid Mexican children crippled in the devastating Mexico City September earthquake |
| December 95 | her husband is on the boards of several companies, including Atlantic Richfield, Dresser Industries, and Pinkerton's. "He and his wife have four children." |
| November 04 | attends the Soap Opera Digest Nominees Reception Party at the White Lotus Lounge in Hollywood |
| Sources: The New York Times, Newark Advocate, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Nevada State Journal, The Zanesville Signal, The Odessa American, Oakland Tribune, The Times Recorder, Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, The Lima News, Mansfield News-Journal, The Valley Independent, Reno Evening Gazette, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Bucks County Courier Times, The Lowell Sun, Chronicle Telegram, Sunday Intelligencer, The Frederick Post, www.pro.Corbis.com, www.Ancestry.com | |
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