is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of six children, to an English father and a Russian mother / to immigrants from Ungvar, Czechoslovakia
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moves to Manhattan to study at the Alvienne School of Dramatics for 18 months and becomes a fashion model to support herself
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models for Harper's Bazaar
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while celebrating her birthday at the Stork Club, she runs into Irving Hoffman, legman for columnist Walter Winchell, who suggests she meet his friend, producer Hal B.
Wallis
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Paramount studio publicity tags her "The Threat"
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is often seen with her boss Wallis at social events but has no publicized romances, real or manufactured
July 49
debuts in Anna Lucasta at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey
October 51
she doesn't hate men, but she knows what she wants