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Terry Moore Profile
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| 7 January 29 | is born in Los Angeles, California |
| 48 | Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures changes her name, from her given Swedish name of Helen Koford, to the Irish, Terry Moore |
| is in a clique with Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Marshall Thompson, Ann Blyth, Richard Long, Roddy McDowall, Debbie Reynolds, and Jerome "Cojo" Courtland |
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| November 48 | still a virgin, she's introduced to billionaire Howard Hughes at a staged meeting in the dining room of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel |
| is flown by Hughes to Palm Springs for a weekend at the home of Darryl Zanuck |
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| at the Doll House Restaurant in Palm Springs, young actor Dale Robertson mistakes Hughes for her father |
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| June 49 | Hughes rents a beach house on Harbor Island; she brings all of her family |
| ? | Hughes "marries her under the stars" on top of Mulholland Drive |
| Fall 49 | Hughes marries her secretly offshore San Diego; the wedding cake is shaped like Mighty Joe Young, the title character from her recent movie |
| ? | lives with Hughes at bungalow 19 at the Beverly Hills Hotel |
| spends a lot of nights with Hughes at the Chi Chi Club, Palm Springs |
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| October 49 | Sally Forrest shows her how to do a whirlwind polka at Bob Arthur's housewarming party |
| 50 | spies on Hughes as he meets an eighteen-year old blonde with her mother at the Desert Inn, Las Vegas |
| February 50 | her new man is Columbia sound cutter Don Mahin |
| 1 January 51 | has her first date with football-pro Glenn Davis |
| escorted by her mother and Glenn Davis, she helps with fundraising at a big Chicago telethon for handicapped children |
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| tours the Hawaiian Islands with mother and the Harlem Globetrotters |
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| enjoys the company of Davis more and more |
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| 9 February 51 | marries Davis at the Mormon Church in Glendale, California; her father turns her life's savings over to her new husband |
| feels that her wedding night at the Santa Ynez Inn in Pacific Palisades with Howard was special; spends her honeymoon in Acapulco with 26 diaphragms, which are furnished by Hughes |
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| moves with Davis to Lubbock, Texas, into a one-room apartment; he tries to use her contacts to get into business with Hughes Tool Company |
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| Hughes designs her dress for High Heels and takes her on a fact-finding mission for the movie |
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| she asks Davis for a divorce; angry, he immediately returns to Los Angeles, to fight it out with Hughes |
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| hides for some weeks, with her stand-in, at a ranch in Nevada, under the name of Barbara Malone |
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| becomes Hughes' first student pilot to receive her flying license, and later, the third woman in the world to be checked out in a jet |
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| lives with her stand-in at Sunset Boulevard House and takes her meals twice a day at the Beverly Hills Hotel |
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| watches a lot of of blue movies in bed with Howard |
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| November 51 | moves back home to her family in Glendale |
| Hughes invites her and her family for Thanksgiving to Sunny Sands Motel, Palm Springs, where she splits up with him because of his dating other girls simultaneously |
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| starts dating hotel heir Nicky Hilton and young actor Robert Evans prior to the filming of Come Back, Little Sheba |
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| the studio sends her on a flurry of publicity dates with Johnnie Ray |
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| has some problems with the love scenes during the filming of Come Back, Little Sheba because Richard Jaeckel looks like Glenn Davis to her |
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| December 51 | her time-consuming career is the main reason for the breakup of her marriage to football star Glenn Davis |
| 14 April 52 | gets her divorce from Davis on the grounds of mental cruelty |
| becomes pregnant on her very first night with Hughes at their new hacienda in Coldwater Canyon |
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| becomes jealous over Hughes' attentions to Debbie Reynolds |
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| May 52 | Paramount starts a campaign to turn her from the-girl-next-door into a teenaged sex queen |
| Johnnie Ray and she are soooo crazy about each other |
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| is out with Greg Bautzer at Romanoff's; he soon asks her to choose between him or Hughes |
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| is out with Kirk Douglas |
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| is allowed to use her pet snake Midnight on the filming of Man On a Tightrope. The snake dies in the cold of Germany. |
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| October 52 | has a miscarriage in Munich while filming Man On a Tightrope and gives birth to a baby daughter from Hughes that is too premature to survive. Kirk Douglas sends flowers. |
| dates Prince Mahmoud Pahlavi, brother of the Shah of Iran |
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| goes to the opening of Come Back, Little Sheba with actor Larry Harvey |
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| dates Jacques Sernas |
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| March 53 | Bob Wagner takes her to the Academy Awards and, afterwards, to Romanoff's |
| May 53 | returns with a bigger bosom after ten weeks in Europe |
| is out with Laurence Harvey at Ciro's |
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| June 53 | attends the opening of Call Me Madam with Nicky Hilton |
| her friend Robert Wagner introduces her to Rock Hudson because Bob wants to meet Rock's girlfriend Piper Laurie |
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| November 53 | is seen with Dave Frame at the Mocambo. She and Bob Wagner call it quits. |
| December 53 | has certainly not married Robert Wagner in Florida |
| toasts Jerome Courtland's opening night performance at the Crescendo |
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| causes turmoil when she does the USO Christmas tour in Korea in an ermine bathing suit, to the anger of her studio |
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| 54 | Tony Curtis and Hugh O'Brian call for dates |
| February 54 | Rock Hudson takes her to The Robe premiere |
| ? | James Dean takes her to the opening of The Red Garter |
| April 54 | does an advertisement for Jolene Hollywood-inspired shoes |
| July 54 | does her act at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and is billed $15,000 by Hughes for her costumes |
| plays summer stock at the the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago with Strictly Dishonorable |
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| Summer 54 | Hughes promises to marry her, but he has her, Jean Peters, Debra Paget, and Mitzi Gaynor waiting in Las Vegas |
| she again loses a baby by Hughes |
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| July 54 | attends service every Sunday with Greg Bautzer at the Mormon Church |
| October 54 | gives her nightclub debut at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, in a transparent dress |
| 55 | stays for a very short time with Hughes in Florida, while he fixes his medical institute |
| April 55 | has fun with her mother and Rocky Marciano in Cuba |
| spends some days accompanied by her mother with the Bob Mitchums in New Orleans |
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| goes to Spain for a lark |
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| May 55 | goes to England for Portrait of Allison |
| encounters the womanizing of Mike Todd at the Cannes Film Festival, where Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef is an entry |
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| spends time the Cannes Film Festival with Daniel Cauchy |
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| travels Spain on the invitation from handsome bullfighter Juan Posada and meets President Franco and King Hussein of Jordan |
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| August 55 | Louella Parson's hat is off to her for not standing still for those stories from London that she is "engaged" to Johnnie Ray |
| Conrad Hilton has her flown to Istanbul with lots of other film stars |
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| John Wayne introduces her to his friend and CIA contact Gene McGrath, owner of the Panama Insurance Company |
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| November 55 | meets Nicky Hilton at the Victory Ball |
| December 55 | attends Herman Hover's cocktail party for Sammy Davis at Ciro's |
| dates Robert Evans for three days when she's in New York for Daddy Long Legs |
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| flies with her mother and McGrath to Panama and falls for him and the country |
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| 1 January 56 | marries McGrath at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas and makes her home in Panama, where exiled Juan Peron is her neighbor and Bebe Rebozo becomes a close friend |
| 56 | lives at home with her mother, but dates Tab Hunter |
| Bebe Rebozo becomes her godfather |
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| September 56 | travels a lot between Panama and Hollywood |
| September 57 | she's very much married and so in love with Gene McGrath |
| November 58 | obtains a quick Panamanian divorce from McGrath |
| 28/29 June 59 | marries Stuart Warren Cramer III, the ex of Jean Peters, in Glendale, California |
| September 59 | she lunches a lot with Sal Mineo, her vis-a-vis in A Private's Affair |
| 28 July 60 | her son Stuart Warren Cramer IV is born |
| 10 November 61 | her son Grant Lamar Cramer is born |
| 7 March 70 | Hughes calls her for the last time |
| 71/72 | divorces Cramer |
| 79 | marries businessman Richard Carey in Mexico; they later separate |
| September 83 | wins a seven-year legal battle to be acknowledged as the widow of Hughes, from whom she was never divorced |
| 84 | details her times with Hughes in the memoir, The Beauty and the Billionaire |
| Sources: The Beauty and the Billionaire by Terry Moore, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars by Tim Brooks, Silver Screen, Screen, Photoplay, Screenland, Motion Picture, Screen Stories, Screenland, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman | |
| Recommended Books: The Beauty and the Billionaire by Terry Moore | |
| Links: Filmography Peep Show Video Vault JSR Pages: Terry Moore | |