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Linda Lawson

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About Me


Linda Lawson is an actress and vocalist who has enjoyed a busy career since the 1950s. Born in Ann Arbor, MI, she was three when her family moved to Fontana, CA, and she began singing while still a child. By the end of her teen years, she'd turned professional and managed to land an engagement at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Her singing and her memorably dark, voluptuous good looks, coupled with her natural acting ability, led to Lawson getting roles on such TV series as 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, One Step Beyond, M Squad, The Rifleman, and Sea Hunt in her early twenties, and she made the jump to feature films in 1960 with a role in the thriller The Threat. She also found time to record an excellent jazz-pop album during this period titled Introducing Linda Lawson, but eventually acting supplanted singing as the focus of her career. Lawson's most famous screen role was in her second film, as the doomed, tormented Mora in Curtis Harrington's hauntingly beautiful Night Tide (1961). She remained busy throughout the 1960s, starred in William Castle's thriller Let's Kill Uncle(1966) and the Audie Murphy western Apache Rifles (1964). She had a regular role on Adventures in Paradise for one season, and on series such as The Virginian, interspersed with occasional feature-film work, and she married producer John Foreman (1925-1992), who subsequently became business partners with actor Paul Newman. Lawson's last major screen role was in Newman's Sometimes a Great Notion (1971). Lawson was seen again onscreen in the made-for-television feature Another Woman's Husband (2000) and in a 2005 episode of ER.

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If you are interested, I have some really great things that I have accumulated during my years in Hollywood. If you are interested, I am selling some of these items on ebay. Right now, there is a beautiful pair of Bruno Magli pumps and a gorgeous pair of white, satin pumps from 1963 with a giant crystal on the toe. Both 8 1/2, barely worn and purchased by my late husband, producer John Foreman.My name is on the listing.

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