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Jolene Brand Profile
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| (Jolene Marie Christina Bufkin) |
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| July 34 | is born in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles, California, of half-Spanish descent; daughter of a salesman and later the stepdaughter of a Baldwin Park real estate dealer |
| ? | attends Mount San Antonio Junior College in Pomona, California |
| ? | pitches softball, left handed, for the Baldwin Park Rockettes |
| 51 | is crowned “Miss Baldwin Park” at age 16 |
| 52 | attends Pasadena Playhouse |
| 53 | is named “Queen of the Los Angeles County Fair." Wins a lifetime pass to the fair and $200. With the cash she quits Mount San Antonio and enrolls as a model. |
| 55 | changes her name to Jolene Brand |
| March 55 | columnist Harrison Carroll tells that "Jolene Brand, the statuesque brunet in the Ciro's chorus, dated Dick Contino and was dining at La Rue's with steel man Ben Serlis..." |
| April 55 | she and fellow MGM starlets Darleen Engle and Jean Patti are on a nationwide promotion tour for the studio's upcoming The Prodigal. They are reported guests of Sam Gilman of Loew's State Theater in Syracuse, New York, appearing on radio, television and in a giant float in front of the theater. The float is mounted with a Wheel of Fortune, a six-foot statue of Lana Turner, a black idol named Baal, and the starlets dressed as handmaidens to the goddess. |
| lives at the Hollywood Studio Club "where the prize resident now is Kim Novak" |
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| tagged an NBC actress and Ciro's entertainer, she promotes a new workbench in local newspapers |
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| 16 October 55 | is race queen at the 100-mile national championship race at Sacramento, California |
| End October 55 | as "Miss Red Feather of 1955," she leads a parade down Hollywood Boulevard |
| she and 14 other actresses are chosen as "WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1956" by a group of veteran actors and actresses, including Ginger Rogers. The other Baby Stars are Fay Spain, 21, Phoenix, Arizona; Barbara Huffman, 21, Tucson, Arizona; Violet Rensing, 24, Berlin, Germany; Dawn Richard, 18, Los Angles, California; Donna Cook, 18, Los Angeles, California; Norma Nillson, 18, Los Angeles, California; Phyllis Applegate, 22, Los Angeles, California; Del-Fin Thursday, 20, Honolulu, Hawaii; Ina Poindexter, 23, Covington, Tennessee; Roxanne Arlen, 21, Detroit, Michigan; Lita Milan, 21, Brooklyn, New York; Jewell Lain, 24, Indianapolis, Indiana; Doreen Stevens, 21, Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Barbara Marks, 22, San Diego, California. |
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| November 55 | columnist Harrison Carroll reports from Gary Crosby's debut at Ciro's: "It happened so fast few saw it, but, in the lobby after the show, Ciro's chorine, Jolene Brand, hauled off and slapped Ben Serlis. Both say their friendship is over." |
| 56 | is discovered by agent Sid Gold in the Hollywood Studio Club's annual revue |
| February 56 | attends the Alan Gordons' party with Morty Tannenbaum |
| c. 56 | marries George Schlatter, NBC talent executive, who will become a prolific TV producer, director and writer |
| May 57 | is a “Queen for a Day” model. The press tells she and fellow models Suzan Alexander, Millicent Deeming, Virginia Bingman, Maxene Reeves, and Lois Shaumberg have to "work five shows a week, but their working day ends at 3:30 in the afternoon. Now that the days are getting longer, they have plenty of time to enjoy themselves at the beach. Even the lifeguards approve." |
| August 57 | competes for the title of "Miss Rheingold 1958." Other contestants are Robin Bain, Carolyn Stroupe, Madelyn Darrow, Cathy Monahan, and Maylu Miner. |
| 58 | with Eileen O’Neill and Chris Noel, she is chosen one of the six finalists in the "Miss Rheingold" contest |
| 11 June 58 | is signed by Disney as the love interest for Guy Williams in at least five episodes in the 1958-59 season of ABC's "Zorro" |
| June 61 | Harrison Carroll congratulates her and Schlatter for their fifth wedding anniversary |
| April 62 | columnist Earl Wilson tells that she's expecting. "Her husband, George Schlatter, produces the Dinah Shore show..." |
| 21 June 62 | her daughter Maria S. is born in Los Angeles. She will become a TV producer. |
| February 68 | columnist Dick Kleiner notes her at her husband's shindig for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. to celebrate his participation in NBC's "The Legend of Robin Hood" |
| 24 September 69 | her daughter Andrea Justine is born in Los Angeles |
| April 77 | returns to TV as the lady in the bathtub in the first show of her husband's "Laugh-In" |
| February 87 | she and her husband are reported hosting a party at Chasen's for Barbara and Frank Sinatra |
| August 01 | together with her husband, George, she attends the Guy Williams Walk of Fame star ceremony |
| 22 | lives in Beverly Hills, California |
| Sources: TV Guide, The Lethbridge Herald, The Post-Standard, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Hammond Times, The Berkshire Eagle, The Daily Gleaner, The Port Arthur News, Syracuse Post-Standard, pro.Corbis.com, www.Ancestry.com | |
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