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Candy Johnson
Amazing singer and go-go dancer Candy Johnson appeared in several beach party films in the 1960s, including Bikini Beach and Muscle Beach Party. Johnson retired from show business in the mid 1960s.
Sue Ane Langdon
Comedienne Sue Ane Langdon began as a singer and performer on Broadway in the 1950s, but soon found her way to Hollywood where she performed in many films and numerous television shows. Her film appearances include When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965; with Connie Francis), Frankie and Johnny (1966; with Elvis Presley and Anthony Eisley), and A Man Called Dagger (1967; with Paul Mantee and Terry Moore). In the 1970s Langdon focused her efforts on television but made a few films in the 1970s and 1980s. She retired in the early 1990s.
Virna Lisi
Italian beauty Virna Lisi has enjoyed an acting career which has spanned five decades. She has appeared in everything from Duel of the Titans (1961; with Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott) to Assault on a Queen (1966; with Frank Sinatra and Richard Conte). Today, Lisi does a lot of TV work in her native Italy. The above right photo is from The Girl and the General (1967).
Florence Marly
Exotic Czech-born Florence Marly had an interesting career as a singer and sometime B movie actress. Her film appearances, which began in the late 1930s, were sporadic but continued into the 1970s. Her films include Tokyo File 212 (1951; see above photo), Undersea Girl (1957; with Mara Corday), and her best-known film Queen of Blood (1966; with John Saxon and Basil Rathbone). Marly died in 1978 at the age of 60.
Irish McCalla
Knockout Irish McCalla wowed TV audiences in the 1950s with her series Sheena: Queen of the Jungle. She also acted in several B movies, including the campy She Demons (1958; with Tod Griffin) and Five Bold Women (1960; with Jeff Morrow and Merry Anders). In the early 1960s, McCalla walked away from acting to become an artist, a career move which proved highly successful and lucrative. Sadly, McCalla passed away in 2002 at the age of 72.
Marie McDonald
Sweater girl Marie McDonald garnered as much publicity for her off-screen exploits as her acting prowess. Nicknamed "The Body," McDonald appeared in a number of 1940s comedies and dramas, such as Pardon My Sarong (1942) and Getting Gertie's Garter (1945). After the release of Garter, McDonald's film appearances became few and far between. She married her fourth husband, shoe company executive Harry Karl, in 1947 and settled down to raise her three children. She and Karl divorced in 1954 and then married again in 1955. The couple divorced again in 1960. (Karl later married Debbie Reynolds.) McDonald married two more times, for a total of seven marriages by the time she turned 40. After the release of her last film, Promises, Promises (1963; with Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay, McDonald grew despondent, finally overdosing on sleeping pills in 1965 at the age of 43.
Jayne Meadows
While everyone remembers pretty Jayne Meadows from her television work, she also had a film career in the 1940s and 1950s. Meadows appeared in such films as Lady in the Lake (1947), The Luck of the Irish (1948), and College Confidential (1960; with Mamie Van Doren). Meadows married writer/actor/composer Steve Allen in 1954, and the couple enjoyed a successful marriage until Allen's death in 1999.
Elizabeth Montgomery
Bewitching Elizabeth Montgomery was the daughter of silver-screen actor Robert Montgomery, and got her start on his TV show Robert Montgomery Presents. After marrying second husband Gig Young in 1956, Montgomery shied away from films but made numerous appearances on popular TV shows. Upon their 1963 divorce, Montgomery returned to making films, but third husband William Asher (who directed five of the seven American International beach party films) cast her as "Samantha" on the 1964-72 ABC-TV series Bewitched. If you look fast, you can see her in a cameo role in the 1965 beach party flick How to Stuff a Wild Bikini at the end of the film. After ending Bewitched, Asher and Montgomery divorced; she then went on to make many TV movies and married her sometime costar, Robert Foxworth. (Asher married actress Joyce Bulifant in 1976.) Sadly, Montgomery passed away at the age of 62 in 1995.
Jean Moorhead
Playboy Playmate Jean Moorhead appeared in just a handful of films in the 1950s; nonetheless, she acted in some of the best cult classics of the 1950s, including the Ed Wood-penned The Violent Years (1956; with Glenn Corbett), Attack of the Puppet People (1958; with John Agar and June Kenney), and The Atomic Submarine (1959; with Arthur Franz and Joi Lansing). Moorhead retired from show business in the late 1950s.
Barboura Morris
Pretty Barboura Morris was a fixture in Roger Corman's late 1950s and early 1960s exploitation films, including Sorority Girl (1957; with Susan Cabot), A Bucket of Blood (1959; with Dick Miller), The Wasp Woman (1960; with Susan Cabot and Anthony Eisley, and Atlas (1961; with Michael Forest). After marrying, Morris's career slowed considerably, but she did find time to occasionally appear in horror films, such as The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963; with Ray Milland) and The Dunwich Horror (1970; with Sandra Dee). Sadly, Morris's health deteriorated, and at the time of her death in 1975, Morris had suffered a stroke and was afflicted with cancer. She was only 43 years old.
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