Victoria Shaw (actress)

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{{Infobox person

| name = Victoria Shaw

| image = Victoria Shaw (1962).JPG

| caption = Shaw in 1962

| birth_name = Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick

| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|5|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|8|17|1935|5|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Sydney, Australia

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Roger Smith|1956|1965|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Elliott Alexander|1966|1969|end=divorced}}

}}

| yearsactive = 1953–1978

| children = 3

| website =

}}

Victoria Shaw (25 May 1935 – 17 August 1988) was an Australian film and television actress.

Early years

Shaw was born Jeanette Ann Lavina Mary Elizabeth Elphick[http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/249/Victoria+Shaw/index.html Victoria Shaw], Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen{{cite news |last1=Kleiner |first1=Dick |title=America Gets Aussie Model Vickie Shaw For TV; Two Broadway Shows Disappoint |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016146/the_sandusky_register/ |work=The Sandusky Register |agency=Newspaper Enterprise Association |date=June 29, 1956 |location=Ohio, Sandusky |page=7|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were Captain and Mrs. Francis W. Elphick.{{cite news |title=Australian Cinderella Wins A Hollywood Leading Role |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22017603/victoria_shaw/ |work=Ford Lauderdale News |date=October 16, 1955 |location=Florida, Fort Lauderdale |page=45|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} She lived in Croydon, New South Wales, and attended a convent school.

Career

Shaw worked in an insurance office for six months before she went to the Dally-Watkins Agency, where she studied modelling with June Dally-Watkins[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2491367 Portrait of Jeanette Elphick (picture)], Shmith, Athol, 1914–90. Collection of fashion photographs, National Library of Australia before making her Australian screen debut opposite Chips Rafferty in The Phantom Stockman (1953). Bob Hope spotted her while touring Australia and urged her to try her luck in Hollywood,{{cite news |last1=Bacon |first1=James |title=Model Goes in Search of Acting Fortune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016699/victoria_shaw/ |work=The Indianapolis News |agency=Associated Press |date=August 31, 1955 |location=Indiana, Indianapolis |page=17|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} where in 1955 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.{{cite news |last1=Gwynn |first1=Edith |title=Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22016543/the_mercury/ |work=The Mercury |date=August 20, 1955 |location=Pennsylvania, Pottstown |page=4|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}}

File:Stewart Whitman Victoria Shaw Cimarron Strip 1968.JPG in Cimarron Strip, 1968, in an episode written by Harlan Ellison]]

She played opposite Tyrone Power in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), her United States film debut. Her subsequent films included The Crimson Kimono and Edge of Eternity (both 1959), Because They're Young and I Aim at the Stars (both 1960), Alvarez Kelly (1966), and Westworld (1973). She also made appearances in TV shows, including 77 Sunset Strip (1962), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), 12 O-Clock High (two episodes: 1964 and 1966), Cimarron Strip (1968), The F.B.I. (two episodes: both 1968), Ironside (1969),{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} Barnaby Jones (1973), General Hospital (1974), McCloud (1976), and Charlie's Angels (1978).

Personal life

Shaw married actor Roger Smith in North Hollywood, California, on July 28, 1956.{{cite news |title=Victoria Shaw, Actress From Australia, Wed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22018225/the_los_angeles_times/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=July 19, 1956 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=52|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} After their divorce in 1965, Smith had joint custody of their three children, Tracey Leone (born 1957), Jordan F. (born 1958), and Dallas E. (born 1961). She married producer Elliott Alexander in 1966. They also divorced.{{cite news|title=VICTORIA SHAW, MODEL WHO WENT TO HOLLYWOOD; OBITUARY|date=19 August 1988|work=Sydney Morning Herald|pages=NEWS AND FEATURES; Pg. 4|quote= Miss Shaw's second marriage in 1966 to a producer, Elliott Alexander, also ended in divorce.... Miss Shaw, who was 53... suffered from emphysema for several years and became seriously ill on Monday. She died on Wednesday in Hornsby Hospital.}}

Death

On August 17, 1988, Shaw died in Hornsby Hospital{{cite news |title=Victoria Shaw, model who went to Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22018429/victoria_shaw/ |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=August 19, 1988 |location=Australia, Sydney, New South Wales |page=4|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = July 19, 2018}} {{Open access}} in Sydney at the age of 53 from emphysema.

Recognition

Shaw was named Australia's Model of the Year in 1951. The next year, she was named Photographer's Model of the Year.

Filmography

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
class="wikitable"
1953	The Phantom Stockman	Kim Marsden
1956	The Eddy Duchin Story	Chiquita Wynn
1959	The Crimson Kimono	Christine Downs
1959	Edge of Eternity	Janice Kendon
1960	Because They're Young	Joan Dietrich
1960	I Aim at the Stars	Maria von Braun
1966	Alvarez Kelly	Charity Warwick
1973	Westworld	Medieval Queen

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0790021}}

Category:1935 births

Category:1988 deaths

Category:Australian film actresses

Category:Australian television actresses

Category:Actresses from Sydney

Category:Australian emigrants to the United States

Category:20th-century Australian actresses

Category:Deaths from emphysema

Category:New Star of the Year (Actress) Golden Globe winners