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Dee Hartford

Dee Hartford

Actor

Born April 21, 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Died October 21, 2018

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Dee Hartford was born in Salt Lake City as Donna Lee Higgins to Edgar Higgins and Beatrice (Thomas) Higgins. She started out in the late 1940s as a model for Vogue magazine in New York. Her sister Eden Hartford (born Eden Marie Higgins) (Groucho Marx's wife from 1954 to 1969) followed a similar career path. Her film career was stillborn in the wake of a small part in RKO's A Girl in Every Port (1952), but she did feature in a few well-remembered guest spots on the small screen in the 1960s. In addition to being Groucho's sister-in-law, Dee was the third wife of director Howard Hawks (who was almost thirty years her senior). Still more consequential, career-wise, was her acquaintance with film maker Irwin Allen who was also a close friend of Groucho.

Tall, photogenic and beautiful, but also hard-edged, her best-remembered role may have been as the shrewish virago of a wife and mother in The Bewitchin' Pool (1964) (the last episode to air of the original Twilight Zone series) whose brief and intermittent expressions of maternal concern are far too few, and ultimately, too late. Her appearances on Perry Mason (1957) were also of jaggedly harsh characters.

She was prone to pop up in several of Allen's TV projects: as the android Verda and as Nancy Pi Squared in Lost in Space (1965) (along with Groucho, she had invested money in the series); as Helen of Troy in The Time Tunnel (1966) and as a scientist's wife in Land of the Giants (1968). Aficionados will also recall her as the fetching Miss Iceland opposite Otto Preminger's "Mr. Freeze" in Batman (1966), her classy Jackie Kennedy-lookalike politician's wife in an episode of The Outer Limits (1963), and as fashion model "Chu-Chu" in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966).

Following her marriage to wealthy Stuart Warren Cramer III in 1972 (ex-husband of Jean Peters and Terry Moore), she settled down to family life in California and dropped out of the limelight. Dee Hartford died in Palm Desert, California, on October 21 2018 at the age of 90.

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Survival Feature Film1976Dee

My Friend Tony Poster

My Friend Tony TV Series19691 episode, 1969

Land of the Giants Poster

Land of the Giants TV Series1968Altha Franzen

Batman TV Series1966Miss Iceland

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Poster

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. TV Series1966Chu-chu

The Time Tunnel Poster

The Time Tunnel TV Series1966Helen of Troy

Lost in Space Poster

Lost in Space TV Series1965Verda

Red Line 7000 Poster

Red Line 7000 Feature Film1965Dinah

Fanfare for a Death Scene Poster

Fanfare for a Death Scene TV Movie1964Jessica

Mr. Broadway Poster

Mr. Broadway TV Series1964Dora

The Cara Williams Show Poster

The Cara Williams Show TV Series1964Diane Morgan

The Hollywood Palace Poster

The Hollywood Palace TV Series1964Self

Burke's Law Poster

Burke's Law TV Series1963Cecelia

The Outer Limits Poster

The Outer Limits TV Series1963Mrs. Clarke

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster Poster

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster TV Series19621 episode, 1963

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Poster

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour TV Series1962Felicity Sampson

The Doctors and the Nurses Poster

The Doctors and the Nurses TV Series1962Angie Stern

The Defenders Poster

The Defenders TV Series1961Audrey Gunther

The Twilight Zone Poster

The Twilight Zone TV Series1959Gloria Sharewood

Perry Mason Poster

Perry Mason TV Series1957Leslie Ross

Gunsmoke Poster

Gunsmoke TV Series1955Tillie

The Band Wagon Poster

The Band Wagon Feature Film19532nd Model in 'Girl Hunt Ballet'

A Girl in Every Port Poster

A Girl in Every Port Feature Film1952Millicent Temple

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