Gloria Talbott
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| Born | February 7, 1931 Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 19, 2000 (aged 69) Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
| Years active | 1937-1966 |
| Spouse | Gene Parrish announcer at KUSC(1948–1953) (divorced) Grover Sandy Sanders (1956–1965) (divorced) Dr. Steven J. Capabianco (1967–1969) (divorced) Dr. Patrick Mullally (1970–2000) (her death) |
Gloria Talbott (February 7, 1931 – September 19, 2000) was an American film and television actress.
[edit] Early life and career
She grew up in Glendale, California. Her sister, Lori Talbott, also became an actress.
Talbott began her career as a child actor in such films as Maytime (1937) Sweet and Lowdown (1943) and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (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 divorce, having worked extensively in film and television. She worked on a regular basis in the 1950s, having appeared in Crashout (1955), the Humphrey Bogart comedy We're No Angels (1955) and All That Heaven Allows (1955). In that same year, Talbott appeared in TV Reader's Digest episode America's First Great Lady as Pocahontas.
She later became known as a 'scream queen' after appearing in a number of horror films including The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), The Cyclops (1957), and I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
Her multiple television credits include the syndicated The Cisco Kid, NBC's western anthology series Frontier, the syndicated western-themed crime drama Sheriff of Cochise with John Bromfield, the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost, the 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive episode Fatal Memory, the 1961 NBC western Whispering Smith (as Cora Gates, with Robert Redford playing her husband, Johnny Gates), and CBS's Rawhide in the episode, "The Incident of the Calico Gun" (1959). Rawhide episode, "Prairie Elephant" (1961). She appeared with Robert Harland in the 1961 episode "Terror in the Afternoon" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. She appeared in three episodes of Gunsmoke: "Home Surgery", "Cody's Code" and "The Cousin" as well as an episode of the Adventures of Superman, in which she played an heiress who gives it up to work as a Daily Planet copy assistant. She also appeared in several Perry Mason episodes.
[edit] Personal life
Married four times, Talbott died from kidney failure and was survived by her fourth husband, Dr. Patrick Mullally and by 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.
