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Jana Lund First two films were rock 'n roll movies: Don't Knock the Rock (1956) and Loving You (1957), which starred by Elvis Presley


Jana Lund was born on August 28, 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Jana Cozette Ekelund. She was an actress, known for Frankenstein 1970 (1958), Loving You (1957) and High School Hellcats (1958). She was married to Arthur J. Crowley. She died on July 20, 1991 in Los Angeles. 1957 Deb Star. First two of her films were rock 'n roll movies: Don't Knock the Rock (1956) and Loving You (1957), which starred by Elvis Presley. Has the distinction of having given Elvis Presley his very first screen kiss in Loving You (1957). Her sister, Caryll Ann Ekelund died from burns received when her Halloween costume caught fire from a Jack-O-Lantern's candle. Janna had five older brothers; Edward E., Robert L., Darcy Lee, Gareth Paget, and Ivan Noell.

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Jan Harrison is an american actress, known for Fort Bowie (1958), Sea Hunt (1958) and Gunsmoke (1955)


Jan Harrison was born in 1924 in Westport, Washington, USA as Janet H. Harrison. She is an american actress, known for Fort Bowie (1958), Sea Hunt (1958) and Gunsmoke (1955). She was previously married to Carroll Hall Shelby and Carl R. Bergquist. A former "Miss Washington State", she was disqualified from competing in the "Miss America" pageant because she had been secretly married. Appeared as a model in Stag (June 1958), Joy (February 1959), Rogue (June 1959), Sir (September 1959), and Breezy (October 1959) magazines.. Second of 'Carroll Shelby's seven wives. Appeared more times than any other credited actress on Sea Hunt (1958). Jan was the November 17, 1957 Riverside Raceway Queen for the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Nationals. Carroll Hall Shelby, later wed to Harrison, was the first winner of that first SCCA Nationals Race at the Riverside Raceway in Riverside, CA. Jan Harrison Bergquist helped organize the first Earl Carroll Show Girls reunion at a Van Nuys, CA restaurant in March 1968. In the 1940's Jan was one of many glamorous women chosen by master showman Earl Carroll to appear at Carroll's Restaurant and Night Club on Sunset Boulevard. On June 17, 1948 Carroll and his friend, Show Girl Beryl Wallace, were killed in the crash of United Airlines Flight 624. Not long afterwards the night club was sold. In 1951 Jan Bergquist of Longview, Washington, advertises for Noxzema in national newspapers. "The Noxzema Home Facial helped my dry, flaky skin so much. I'm a confirmed Noxzema user, now.". Jan's first and third husband, Carl R. Bergquist, was a Norwalk, CA veterinarian. They had two children: Karen Edith, born in Los Angeles on October 28, 1947, and Craig Reed, who has had a career as San Clemente, CA dentist, born in Los Angeles on December 18, 1951. Shelby and Harrison were driven by Shelby's friend, John Edgar, to Tijuana in Edgar's Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce, dining on caviar and champagne on the way.

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Tuesday

Jacqueline Scott is an American actress who has appeared in several films


Jacqueline Sue Scott (born January 1, 1932) is an American actress who has appeared in several films and guest starred in more than one hundred television programs. A TV Guide article once referred to her as "The Youngest Old-Timer in the Business," because she played opposite most of the leading men of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Scott was born in Sikeston in Scott County in southeastern Missouri. She spent a good part of her childhood moving from town to town following her father, who worked for the state purchasing right-of-way for roads. She attended 15 grade schools before settling down in Neosho, Missouri, to attend high school there. At age three, she won a tap dancing contest, which led her to pursue a show business career. As training, she saw every movie she could, learning how to mouth the actors' lines. Eventually she moved to St. Louis, where she worked for a small theatre company, and soon afterwards left for New York City to begin her career in earnest. There she studied with Uta Hagen. Her first major role on Broadway was as the ingenue lead in The Wooden Dish, which starred Louis Calhern. This was followed by the ingenue lead in Inherit the Wind, which starred Paul Muni. She started her career in television by playing opposite such stars as Helen Hayes on live television. Between 1958-1960 Scott made three guest appearances on Perry Mason: Amelia Armitage in "The Case of the Daring Decoy" (1958), Sally Wilson in "The Case of the Glittering Goldfish" (1959), and Kathi Beecher in "The Case of the Violent Village" (1960). In the television series The Fugitive, Scott played the sister of Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) in five episodes telecast between 1964 and 1967, including the two-part finale that at the time became the highest-rated program in television history. In July 2007, Scott was among celebrities at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina. Others in attendance were Lynn Borden, Brett Halsey, Rick Lenz, Betty Lynn, Joyce Meadows, and Lana Wood

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Jacqueline DeWit was an American film and TV character actress


Jacqueline deWit (September 26, 1912 – January 7, 1998) was an American film and TV character actress from Los Angeles, California who appeared in over 2 dozen films including That Night With You, Spellbound, The Snake Pit, The Damned Don't Cry!, Tea and Sympathy, All That Heaven Allows and Harper. She also appeared in the 1946 Abbott and Costello comedy Little Giant. She also made numerous appearances on TV series such as Wagon Train, The Lineup, The Monkees and most notably the classic 1959 The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last," in which she played the nagging wife of Burgess Meredith. known for All That Heaven Allows (1955), Harper (1966) and The Snake Pit (1948) deWit died in Los Angeles, California on January 7, 1998 at age 85.

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Jaclyn Smith is best known as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels


Jacquelyn Ellen "Jaclyn" Smith is an American actress and businesswoman. She is best known as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels, and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run. Beginning in the 1980s, she began developing and marketing her own brands of clothing and perfume. Smith began her career in 1969 in television commercials and had early appearances in the 1969 film Goodbye, Columbus and the 1970 film The Adventurers. In 1976, she was cast in Charlie's Angels, alongside Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. The show propelled all three to stardom, including appearing on the front cover of Time magazine. During this time, she also had a leading role in the 1980 thriller Nightkill. On leaving Charlie's Angels in 1981, she starred in the title role in the TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and received a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination. She starred in numerous TV movies and miniseries over the next twenty years, including George Washington, Kaleidoscope and Nightmare in the Daylight, opposite Christopher Reeve. She also starred in the 1985 feature film, Déjà Vu

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Irish McCalla was best known as the title star of the 1950s television series Sheena


Nellie Elizabeth "Irish" McCalla (December 25, 1928 – February 1, 2002) was an American actress and artist best known as the title star of the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Sheena co-starred actor Chris Drake. McCalla was also a "Varga Girl" model for pinup girl artist Alberto Vargas. Born in Pawnee City, Nebraska, she was one of eight siblings born to Lloyd, a butcher, and Nettie (née Geiger) McCalla. The family moved often, settling in Des Moines, Iowa in late 1939 when Lloyd began working for Condon Bros. meat dealers. The family lived at 1070 10th Street. Nellie attended Washington Irving Junior High School before the family moved to Marshalltown, Iowa in November 1941, and Omaha, Nebraska in September 1942, before returning to Pawnee City, where she completed high school. At 17, she joined some of her siblings in Southern California, where she worked as a waitress and at an aircraft factory. In 1951, she married insurance salesman Patrick McIntyre, with whom she had two sons. McCalla was already a popular pinup model by 1952, when she and several other models appeared in the film River Goddesses, comprising voluptuous young women frolicking in Glen Canyon. Sheena McCalla publicity still, costumed for her most famous role In a newspaper interview, McCalla recalled being discovered by a Nassour Studios representative while throwing a bamboo spear on a Malibu, California, beach, adding of her Sheena experience, "I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees".[2] Her 26-episode series aired in first-run syndication from 1955-56. The athletic, reportedly 5'10" McCalla said she performed her own stunts on the series, filmed in Mexico, until the day she grabbed an unsecured vine and slammed into a tree, breaking her arm. Her elder son, Kim McIntyre, once told the press he remembered watching his mother swinging from vine to vine and wrestling mechanical alligators. Following the one-season Sheena, McCalla appeared in five films from 1958 to 1962, and guest roles on the TV series Have Gun — Will Travel and Route 66. Additionally, she formed "McCalla Enterprises, Inc." McCalla and McIntyre divorced in 1957, and the following year McCalla married English actor and James Joyce/Sherlock Holmes scholar Patrick Horgan. They divorced sometime in the 1960s. In 1982, McCalla, then living in Malibu, California, married Chuck Rowland, a national sales manager for an auto glass firm, and moved with him to Prescott, Arizona, where she lived out her days. They separated in 1989. As an artist, McCalla reportedly[weasel words] completed more than 1,000 paintings and eight collector plates, and sold lithographs of her work. McCalla was a member of Woman Artists of the American West, and her work has reportedly[weasel words] been displayed at the Los Angeles Museum of Arts and Sciences.[5] She made personal appearances at autograph conventions, appearing as late as 1996 in a faux-leopard Sheena costume. Aged 73, Irish McCalla died of a stroke and complications from her fourth brain tumor — previous tumors were diagnosed in 1969 and 1981. She was survived by two sons, Kim and Sean McIntyre. McCalla has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1722 Vine Street

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