Gloria Talbott (7 February 1931 – 19 September 2000) was an American film and television actress.
She grew up in
GlendaleGlendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
,
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. Her sister, Lori Talbott, also became an actress.
Gloria Talbott began her career as a
child actorThe term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor...
in such films as
Maytime (1937)
Sweet and Lowdown (1943) and
A Tree Grows In BrooklynA Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film directed by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn , Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner....
(1945).
After leaving school, Talbott formed a dramatic group and played "arena"-style shows at various clubs.
Gloria Talbott (7 February 1931 – 19 September 2000) was an American film and television actress.
Early life and career
She grew up in
GlendaleGlendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
,
CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
. Her sister, Lori Talbott, also became an actress.
Gloria Talbott began her career as a
child actorThe term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor...
in such films as
Maytime (1937)
Sweet and Lowdown (1943) and
A Tree Grows In BrooklynA Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film directed by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn , Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner....
(1945).
After leaving school, Talbott formed a dramatic group and played "arena"-style shows at various clubs. She stopped acting following her marriage, and resumed after her
divorceDivorce or dissolution of marriage is the final termination of a marriage, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between two persons...
, having worked extensively in film and television. She worked on a regular basis in the
1950sThe 1950s was the decade that ran from January 1, 1950, to December 31, 1959. During the early 1950s in the United States manufacturing and home construction was on the rise as the American economy was on the upswing. The Korean War and the beginning of the Cold War created a politically...
, having appeared in
Crashout- Plot :Convict Van Duff is the leader of a large-scale prison break. The breakout works as the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison....
(1955), the
Humphrey BogartHumphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor.After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film...
comedy
We're No Angels (1955) and
All That Heaven AllowsAll That Heaven Allows is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love. The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee...
(1955).
Talbott later became known as a '
scream queenA scream queen is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre as a frequent victim or through constant appearances as the female protagonist...
' after appearing in a number of horror films including
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957),
The Cyclops (1957), and
I Married a Monster from Outer SpaceI Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 science fiction film. Actors Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott play the film's lead characters.-Plot summary:...
(1958).
Her multiple television credits include the
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The Cisco KidThe Cisco Kid is a durable half-hour western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho...
,
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
's
westernThe Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska The Western...
anthologyAn anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
FrontierFrontier was an NBC western television series which de-emphasized gunplay. It was only the second anthology western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days.Frontier aired from September 25, 1955, to September 9, 1956, and ran sporadically in its last five months...
, the syndicated western-themed crime drama
Sheriff of CochiseSheriff of Cochise , renamed U.S. Marshal , is a 58-episode syndicated western-themed crime drama set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan. In the initial season, Morgan was sheriff of Cochise County...
with
John BromfieldJohn Bromfield was an American film and television actor.Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college. He served in the United States Navy. In 1948, he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon...
, the syndicated
American Civil WarThe American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America...
drama
Gray GhostThe Gray Ghost is a black and white Western series which aired in syndication from October 10, 1957, to July 3, 1958. It depicts the true story of Major John Singleton Mosby, an Virginia officer in the Confederate Army, whose cunning and stealth earned him the nickname "Gray Ghost".-Synopsis:The...
, the 1961 NBC western
Whispering SmithWhispering Smith is a short-lived American Western series that aired on NBC. Based on a 1948 movie, the series stars Audie Murphy as Tom "Whispering" Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado...
(as Cora Gates, with
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playing her husband, Johnny Gates), and CBS's
RawhideRawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...
in the episode, "The Incident of the Calico Gun". She appeared with
Robert HarlandRobert "Bob" Harland is or was an American actor whose principal work was done on television in the late 1950s and 1960s...
in the 1961 episode "Terror in the Afternoon" of the syndicated crime drama
The Brothers BrannaganThe Brothers Brannagan is a syndicated American crime drama television series that aired for thirty-nine black and white episodes between September 24, 1960, and July 15, 1961.-Synopsis:...
.
Personal life
Married three times, Talbott died from kidney failure was survived by her third husband, Dr. Patrick Mullally and two children.
Daughter Mea Mullally, born to Gloria and Dr. Steven J. Capabianco, her second husband, won three gold medals in local ice-skating competitions and is an aspiring actress.
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