Name that girl

#2,172 Sharon Tate

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This one probably favors older players, but enough, hopefully in the clues, for anyone to zero in on her if you didn't come to know her in the 1950's-1970's.


Age 93 (ninety three). Actor and Singer. Arizona girl originally.

Her age clearly indicates she's beem around a while. Started as a teenager, earliest professional gig was 1950. Yes, still living, she finally "retired" three years ago at age 90, though she will still make guest appearances on various things.

A solid seventy year body of work, from comedy to drama and everything in between.

Other than "Miss Kitty" on Gunsmoke (that was not this girl), one of my earliest network TV crushes in the mid 1960's until about 1970.

This "girl's" best known TV role was an iconic part that kept her "bottled up" part of the time. It was a fantasy role, set loosely against the US race to the moon. That show still lives on in reruns to this day.

Survived what looks like, in hindsight, to be a silly fight with censors of the day about whether her bellybutton could be shown on primetime TV on this show.

In a metaphorically "blink of her eyes". she even rea-ppeared in a guest stint with that show's male co-star, on his hit network melodrama, almost 30 years after their five years together in their memorable TV show.

She has done a ton of other television work, mostly in guest roles on other TV shows, variety programs popular in 1960's and 1970's, theatrical movies, stage plays .. literally over 100 things in past 70+ years.

Below in 1950 and 1953, respectively. in high school and then as a local beauty pageant winner.


Answer this weekend.

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Easy one there Ray. Too many clues. Nobody should remain under any rocks on this one! :rofl:
yeah Chris, i did more clues because like Alan pointed out ... this girl is difficult to get from the pics alone.

i picked her at an age where i expected her to look more like the girl on the submarine i built as a lad (1962).

something about the eyes --- usually dead giveaways of consistency from when they are little girls -- looks odd.

anyway, multiple sources say its her. the clues definitely say who i think she is :)


PS. Internet scuttlebutt for YEARS that our girl had her beak done in the 1950's... quite unheard of back then.

If true, it would certainly explain her high school pic, vs. her movie/tv star pic a few years later, and even things about her senior citizen face.

something going on with her schnoze. smaller, thinner. changed the look of her face at a young age. maybe it was botox at the end, like many stars her age.
 
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Sharon Tate was an easy one. Actress, director and 1969 made it easy. Even easier is that Spahn Ranch, where some of the Manson Family liked to hang out between 1968-1970 was 5 miles, as the crow flies, from where I lived. The ranch on the north end of the Chatsworth Park North and my family on the south end of Chatsworth Nature Preserve.
 
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