Meg Myles

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Meg Myles (born Billie Jean Jones in Seattle , Washington , November 14, 1934 ) is an American actress , singer and former pin-up girl .

Life

Myles took dance lessons as a child and studied dance and health education at the University of the Pacific College . During her school education, she was discovered by a talent scout due to her unusual bust size and signed to an artist agency. She became a popular pin-up girl in the 1950s, and soon she was also booked as a decorative accessory on television shows. Myles was not satisfied with being reduced to looks, however, and worked on her acting and singing skills. She appeared in various nightclubs as a singer in the 1950s and released several singles on the Sunset record label .

In 1954 she appeared as a Cuban nightclub singer in an episode of the television series Dragnet , the following year she played a singer in Phil Karlonson's film A City Goes Through Hell , for which she also sang the theme song. As a result, she received a recording contract with Capitol Records , but she was not granted any notable commercial success. In 1957 she made her feature film debut as an actress in Fred F. Sears ' musical Calypso Fever . She was then signed to Liberty Records , where she recorded her first album Just Meg and Me . The following year Tiara Records released the album Passion in Paris , which summarized their earlier recordings on Sunset Records . Her acting career was on hold in the late 1950s. Among other things, because she did not want to be reduced to her appearance and therefore declined corresponding offers, but also because she was said to have an affair with Sammy Davis junior . A (even rumored) relationship with an African American was too tricky for producers at the time, when the legal principle of Separate but equal had only recently been abolished.

In 1962, Myles played the lead role in the exploitation film Satan in High Heels . In the film in which she played a stripper , she was heard again as the singer of two titles. In the same year Quincy Jones produced her album Meg Myles at the Living Room for Mercury Records . However, her publications continued to be commercially unsuccessful, after which she focused on her acting career. In 1963 she made her debut on Broadway , she also played off-Broadway and appeared at the New York Shakespeare Festival . In 1968 she starred in Don Siegel 's Coogan's Big Bluff alongside Clint Eastwood , and three years later she played a minor supporting role in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Clan . However, her film career stalled, it was not until 1983 that she appeared again in a feature film alongside Robert Hayes and Ned Beatty in Touched . The following year she appeared in the recurring guest role of Joanna Yaeger Chandler in the soap opera All My Children , and in 1992 she played Mrs. Taggart in the soap opera Springfield Story . Her last film appearance so far was in 1995 in the US thriller Delinquent .

Myles retired into private life and lives on the Upper West Side , where she has made a name for herself as an animal rights activist since the mid-1980s . She specializes in caring for birds and supports the Animal Care & Control of NYC.

Filmography (selection)

Movie

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Broadway

  • 1963-1964: Enter Laughing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Pinup Girl Now Into Feathers Wall Street Journal (English)
personal data
SURNAME Myles, Meg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billie Jean Jones
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington