Gloria Talbott

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Gloria Maude Talbott (born February 7, 1931 in Glendale , California , † September 19, 2000 there ) was an American actress .

Film career

Her first small role (without naming it) was in the film Maienzeit in 1937 , followed by brief appearances in the musical film Sweet and Low-Down (1944) and Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). From 1951 she appeared regularly on television . Here she made repeated appearances in well-known television series such as Perry Mason , Bonanza , Smoking Colts , A Thousand Miles of Dust and Lassie until the mid-1960s .

In the 1950s she first played in some westerns : Desert Pursuit (1952), Northern Patrol (1953) and Border City Rustlers (1953, a cut from episodes of the television series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ). In 1955 she had roles in We Are No Angels , Street of Terror and Douglas Sirk's melodrama What Heaven Permits . She later made a name for herself as a scream queen in B-movies like The Cyclops (1957), The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) and The Leech Woman (1960). Her last feature film was the Western An Eye for an Eye (1966).

In his book Cult Movies , Danny Peary retrospectively judged Gloria Talbott: “[She] wasn't the classic film beauty […] but she was the perfect heroine for science fiction and horror films because she exuded a seldom encountered combination of strength and fragility out".

Private

Gloria Talbott was married several times. Her first marriage to her fellow actor Gene Parrish, for which she temporarily interrupted her career, ended in 1953 after four years. A son emerged from this connection. From 1956 to 1964 she was married to actor Grover Sandy Sanders, who was twelve years her senior. In 1967 she married the doctor Steven Joseph Capobianco. After the birth of a daughter, she decided to devote herself entirely to raising her and left the film business. The marriage with Capobianco ended in divorce after two years. In 1970 she married the dentist Patrick Robert Mullally, with whom she stayed until her death.

She died at the age of 69 and was buried in Mission Cemetery in San Fernando . Her older sister Lori Talbott was also an actress.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Talbott was not pretty in the movie heroine sense [...] but she was a terrific heroine for science fiction and horror films because she projected a rare combination of strength and vulnerability." - Danny Peary: Cult Movies , Dell Publishing, New York , 1981.
  2. ↑ Tom Weaver: Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers , McFarland, Jefferson, 1988.
  3. ^ Find a grave

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personal data
SURNAME Talbott, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talbott, Gloria Maude (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2000
Place of death Glendale , California , United States