Gloria Talbott (February 7, 1931 – September 19, 2000) was an American film and television actress.
She grew up in Glendale, California. Her sister, Lori Talbott, also became an actress.
Talbott began her career as a child actor in such films as Maytime (1937) Sweet and Lowdown (1943) and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945).
After leaving school, Talbott formed a dramatic group and played “arena”-style shows at various clubs. She stopped acting following her first marriage, and resumed after her divorce, having worked extensively in film and television. She worked on a regular basis during the 1950s, having appeared in Crashout (1955), the Humphrey Bogart comedy We’re No Angels (1955), Lucy Gallant (1955), and All That Heaven Allows (1955). In that same year, Talbott appeared in TV Reader’s Digest episode America’s First Great Lady as Pocahontas.
She later became known as a ‘scream queen’ after appearing in a number of horror films including The Daughter of Dr… read more
Gloria Talbott (February 7, 1931 – September 19, 2000) was an American film and television actress.
She grew up in Glendale, California. Her sister, Lori Talbott, also became an actress.
Talbott began her career as a child actor in such films as Maytime (1937) Sweet and Lowdown (1943) and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945).
After leaving school, Talbott formed a dramatic group and played “arena”-style shows at various clubs. She stopped acting following her first marriage, and resumed after her divorce, having worked extensively in film and television. She worked on a regular basis during the 1950s, having appeared in Crashout (1955), the Humphrey Bogart comedy We’re No Angels (1955), Lucy Gallant (1955), and All That Heaven Allows (1955). In that same year, Talbott appeared in TV Reader’s Digest episode America’s First Great Lady as Pocahontas.
She later became known as a ‘scream queen’ after appearing in a number of horror films including The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957), The Cyclops (1957), and I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
On October 1, 1957, she appeared as Linda Brazwell in the episode “Reluctant Hero” of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series Sugarfoot. In the story line, Sugarfoot, played by Will Hutchins, an aspiring lawyer, takes a ranch job from the aging Charlie Cade, played by Will Wright. He soon finds that Cade is involved in a range war with Linda and her brother, Ken Brazwell, played by Michael Dante. Talbott subsequently appeared in the ABC/WB drama, The Roaring 20s.
Talbott’s multiple television credits include the syndicated The Range Rider and The Cisco Kid, NBC’s western anthology series Frontier, and the syndicated western-themed crime drama Sheriff of Cochise with John Bromfield. Talbott was also cast in the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost, the 1958 episode “Fatal Memory” on CBS’s Wanted: Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen, the 1959 episode “Have Sword, Will Duel” of the NBC western Cimarron City, and in the 1961 NBC western Whispering Smith in the role of Cora Gates, with Robert Redford cast as her brother, Johnny Gates.
She also appeared on CBS’s Rawhide in the episodes, “The Incident of the Calico Gun” (1959) and “Prairie Elephant” (1961). She appeared with Robert Harland in the 1961 episode “Terror in the Afternoon” of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. She guest starred in three episodes of Gunsmoke: “Home Surgery”, “Cody’s Code” and “The Cousin” as well as an episode of the Adventures of Superman, in which she played an heiress who works as a Daily Planet copy assistant. She also guest starred in several episodes of ABC’s Zorro and CBS’s Perry Mason.
Married four times, Talbott died from kidney failure and was survived by her fourth husband, Dr. Patrick Mullally and by two children.
Daughter Mea Mullally, born to Gloria and Dr. Steven J. Capabianco, her second husband, won three gold medals in local ice-skating competitions and is an aspiring actress.—Wikipedia
