Dee Hartford
{{Short description|American actress (1928–2018)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dee Hartford
| image = File:Dee Hartford 1967.jpg
| caption = Hartford as Miss Iceland in the Batman television series in 1966
| birthname = Donna Beatrice Higgins[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/69561576:2442 1940 US census], ancestry.com. Accessed May 23, 2024.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|4|21}}
| birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|10|21|1928|4|21}}
| death_place = Palm Desert, California, U.S.
| education = East High School
| known_for = A Girl in Every Port
Perry Mason
The Twilight Zone
Batman
Lost in Space
Time Tunnel
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Howard Hawks|1953|1959|reason=div}}
- {{marriage|Stuart Cramer III
|1972}}
}}
| years_active = 1952–1976
| relatives = Eden Hartford (sister)
}}
Dee Hartford (born Donna Beatrice Higgins; April 21, 1928 – October 21, 2018){{cite web|url=http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1280987-summer-2020/67?|title=SAG-AFTRA Summer 2020 Edition|access-date=August 27, 2020}} was an American television actress. She was married to Howard Hawks from 1953 to 1959. Her younger sister was actress Eden Hartford; her former brother-in-law was comedian Groucho Marx.
Early years
Hartford was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the middle daughter of three daughters born to Edgar and Beatrice (née Thomas) Higgins. She attended East High School in Salt Lake City and LDS Business College, and then became a model.{{cite news|last1=Haight|first1=Ellen|title=Baby, Look at You Now|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8195656/the_salt_lake_tribune/|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=November 4, 1951|location=Utah, Salt Lake City|page=117|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 5, 2017}} {{Open access}}
Career
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In the late 1940s, Hartford was a model for Vogue.{{Cite web|url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/308/Dee+Hartford/index.html|title=Dee Hartford - The Private Life and Times of Dee Hartford. Dee Hartford Pictures.}}{{cite book|title=Slim Aarons: Women|date=2016|publisher=Abrams|isbn=9781683350897|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpgQDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Dee+Hartford%22+actress&pg=PT42|access-date=6 January 2017|language=en}} Her screen debut was in A Girl in Every Port (1952),{{cite news|title=Run Riot With Three Stars Grand Film|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8195911/the_terre_haute_tribune/|work=The Terre Haute Tribune|date=March 2, 1952|location=Indiana, Terre Haute|page=61|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 5, 2017}} {{Open access}} directed by Chester Erskine.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/dee-hartford-30801|title=Dee Hartford|access-date=2011-03-04|author=Eder, Bruce|publisher=allmovie.com}} 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". In 1964, she appeared as the virago of a wife and mother in "The Bewitchin' Pool" (the last original episode of The Twilight Zone to be broadcast, but not the last one to be filmed).
Hartford guest starred in episodes of Gunsmoke, Burke's Law, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Cara Williams Show, Batman (two episodes), Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, and Lost in Space (three episodes). 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.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
Personal life
Hartford married Howard Hawks on February 20, 1953, at his home in Hollywood, California.{{cite news|title=Film Director, 53; Model, 24, Are Wed|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8195465/the_fresno_bee_the_republican/|work=The Fresno Bee The Republican|agency=United Press|date=February 21, 1953|location=California, Fresno|page=3|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = January 5, 2017}} {{Open access}} They divorced in 1959. In 1972, she married Stuart Cramer III.{{cn|date=May 2024}}
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons).{{cite web|url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/bio/bioH.html|title=Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: H|website=ldsfilm.com|access-date=May 26, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actress-dee-hartford-wife-of-film-producer-howard-hawks-news-photo/674395235|title=Dee Hartford|website=gettyimages.com|access-date=May 26, 2024}}
Selected Filmography
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (Season 1, Episode 10: "Day of Reckoning") as Felicity Sampson
- Gunsmoke (1963) (Season 8, Episode 10:E23 "Ash") as Tillie (a saloon girl).
- The Outer Limits (1964) (Season 1, Episode 19: "The Invisibles") as Mrs. Clarke
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0366690}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Salt Lake City
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Latter Day Saints from Utah