Paula Raymond

About Paula Raymond

Who is it?: Actress, Music Department
Birth Day: November 23, 1924
Birth Place:  San Francisco, California, United States
Other names: Paula Rae Wright Rae Patterson
Years active: 1938–1994
Spouse(s): Floyd Patterson (1944–1946)(divorced) 1 child H. Leslie Williams (1965-1966)
Children: Raeme Dorene Patterson (1946-1993)

Paula Raymond

Paula Raymond was born on November 23, 1924 in  San Francisco, California, United States, is Actress, Music Department. American leading woman of films and television in the 1950s, whose career was hampered by injuries. Raised in San Francisco, she studied music, dance, and opera as a child. She made her film debut as a child by chance in 1937 during a visit to Los Angeles. She remained to attend Hollywood High School and to appear in local theatre productions. She returned to San Francisco for studies at San Francisco Junior College and, while there, entered into a brief marriage. Divorced, she came back to Hollywood and modeled. Although contracted to Paramount in 1947, she was released without working there and signed instead with Columbia. She made numerous television appearances and low-budget features before MGM signed her and began placing her in more important projects. Despite good notices and some successful films, she was eventually released from her contract. She made several unimportant pictures as a freelancer, then left the industry in 1955. She worked a number of non-film related jobs under a variation of her married name, then returned to acting in 1958. She had a long string of success in television which was shattered in a 1962 car crash. She was very nearly killed and had severe facial damage, requiring massive plastic surgery. Her beauty miraculously recovered, she managed to return to acting within a year and appeared occasionally into the 1970s. A series of subsequent falls injured her repeatedly, and she moved into business interests, though remaining an actor at heart.
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As per our current Database, Paula Raymond has been died on December 31, 2003(2003-12-31) (aged 79)\nWest Hollywood, California, U.S..

🎂 Paula Raymond - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Paula Raymond die, Paula Raymond was 79 years old.

Popular As Paula Raymond
Occupation Actress
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born November 23, 1924 ( San Francisco, California, United States)
Birthday November 23
Town/City  San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality United States

🌙 Zodiac

Paula Raymond’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. According to astrologers, Sagittarius is curious and energetic, it is one of the biggest travelers among all zodiac signs. Their open mind and philosophical view motivates them to wander around the world in search of the meaning of life. Sagittarius is extrovert, optimistic and enthusiastic, and likes changes. Sagittarius-born are able to transform their thoughts into concrete actions and they will do anything to achieve their goals.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Paula Raymond was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.

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Biography/Timeline

1924

Paula Ramona Wright was born in 1924, in San Francisco, California. Her father was a corporate Lawyer. Following her parents' divorce, Raymond and her mother moved to Los Angeles.

1938

Raymond's first acting role was playing Bettina Bowman in Keep Smiling (1938), credited as Paula Rae Wright. In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite such leading men as Cary Grant and Dick Powell. Earlier in her career, Raymond acted in film noir thrillers such as City That Never Sleeps (with Gig Young, Mala Powers and Marie Windsor), but later in her career she developed a horror film reputation.

1942

As a child, Raymond studied ballet, piano, and singing. She was a member of both the San Francisco Opera Company and the San Francisco Children's Opera Company. She graduated from Hollywood High School in 1942. Following graduation, she returned to San Francisco to attend college. She also worked with two theater groups there.

1944

In 1944, Raymond married Floyd Leroy Patterson. In 1946, they divorced shortly after the birth of their daughter, Raeme Dorene Patterson. In 1993, Raymond's daughter died.

1950

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Raymond appeared in many television shows including Perry Mason (five episodes), Maverick, Hawaiian Eye (five episodes), M Squad (three episodes) with Lee Marvin, 77 Sunset Strip (four episodes), as Martha Harrington in Peter Gunn season 1, episode 11, in 1958. She turned down the role of prostitute/saloon keeper Kitty Russell in the long-running western classic series Gunsmoke, and the role went instead to Amanda Blake. Raymond later noted in an interview that she later regretted the decision but that she had assumed the character would be depicted entirely differently.

1952

In 1952, she played the heroine in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Her low-budget horror movies included Blood of Dracula's Castle. In 1954, she starred as Queen Berengaria in the film King Richard and the Crusaders. She also starred in a 1955 western, The Gun That Won the West.

1959

She also appeared in the third episode of the first season, initially broadcast on February 3, 1959, in ABC's science fiction series Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond entitled "Emergency Only," which also memorably featured Jocelyn Brando as a screaming fortune Teller at a party.

1962

In 1962, Raymond was a Passenger in a car that crashed into a tree on Sunset Boulevard. Her nose was severed by the rear view mirror. After a little more than a year of extensive plastic surgery and recovery she returned to acting. In 1977, while working on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, after only three appearances, she accidentally tripped on a telephone cord and broke her ankle. She was written out of the show. In 1984, she broke both hips, and in 1994, she broke her shoulder.

1964

Raymond was cast as former Union Army spy Pauline Cushman in the 1964 episode, "The Wooing of Perilous Pauline" of the syndicated western series, Death Valley Days.

2003

On December 31, 2003, Raymond died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from a series of respiratory ailments. She was 79.

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