Dee Hartford

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Dee Hartford
Time Tunnel
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(m. 1953; div. 1959)​
Stuart Cramer III
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RelativesEden Hartford (sister)

Dee Hartford (born Donna Higgins; April 21, 1928 - October 21, 2018)

brother-in-law was comedian Groucho Marx
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Early years

Hartford was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Edgar Higgins and Beatrice Higgins (née Thomas). She attended East High School in Salt Lake City and LDS Business College, and then became a model.[2]

Career

In the late 1940s, Hartford was a model for Vogue.[3][4]

Her screen debut was in A Girl in Every Port (1952),[5] directed by Chester Erskine.[6] In 1964-65, she made three guest appearances on Perry Mason; as Leslie Ross in "The Case of the Accosted Accountant," as Lois Gray in "The Case of the Missing Button", and she played Rhonda Coleridge in "The Case of the Baffling Bug".[citation needed] In 1964, she also appeared in "The Bewitchin' Pool", (the last original episode of The Twilight Zone to be broadcast, but not the last one to be filmed).

Hartford also guest starred in

Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, and Lost in Space (three episodes).[6]
She appeared as the android Verda in the 1966 Lost in Space episode "The Android Machine" and in a sequel, "Revolt of the Androids". She also appeared in a third episode of Lost in Space as Nancy Pi Squared in the “Space Beauty” episode about an intergalactic beauty pageant.

Personal life

Hartford married Howard Hawks on February 20, 1953, at his home in Hollywood, California.[7] They divorced in 1959. In 1972, she married Stuart Cramer III.

She was a member of the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes referred to as the Mormons.[8][9]

Selected Filmography

References

  1. ^ "SAG-AFTRA Summer 2020 Edition". Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. ^ Haight, Ellen (November 4, 1951). "Baby, Look at You Now". The Salt Lake Tribune. Utah, Salt Lake City. p. 117. Retrieved January 5, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Dee Hartford - The Private Life and Times of Dee Hartford. Dee Hartford Pictures".
  4. ISBN 9781683350897
    . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  5. ^ "Run Riot With Three Stars Grand Film". The Terre Haute Tribune. Indiana, Terre Haute. March 2, 1952. p. 61. Retrieved January 5, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ a b Eder, Bruce. "Dee Hartford". allmovie.com. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  7. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ "Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: H". www.ldsfilm.com.
  9. ^ "Dee Hartford".

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