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Judy Clark (June 9, 1921 – December 27, 2002)[ citation needed] was an American film and television actress and singer. Clark adopted a brash and energetic singing style, similar to that of musical-comedy star Betty Hutton.
Clark was the daughter of Jack Kaufman, who was a vaudeville performer. [1] She and comedian Jack Gilford were among the new faces in the stage show Meet the People; Universal Pictures signed both for the Gloria Jean musical Reckless Age (1944).[ citation needed]
Clark won the juvenile lead in the 1944 Benny Fields musical Minstrel Man, in which she delivered two songs in the Hutton manner. The role reflected Clark's own life, as a rising star in a theatrical family.[ citation needed] She continued to work in pictures through the mid-1940s, including the Joan Davis musical comedy Beautiful but Broke (1944), the Cinderella-styled comedy The Kid Sister (1945), the Freddie Stewart musical Junior Prom (1946), In Fast Company with The Bowery Boys (1946), and the Jean Porter musical Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947). Beginning in 1949, with fewer musicals being made, she worked in the action/adventure field, in two serials, Bruce Gentry and Desperadoes of the West. Altogether she appeared in more than two dozen films and several television productions.
Clark's work as a singer included performing with Jimmy McHugh's Hollywood Singing Stars. [2] She also danced and sang in the stage musical Lend an Ear at the Las Palmas Theater. [3]
Clark was diagnosed with anemia, resulting in pain in both ankles and thus forcing her to give up dancing.[ citation needed]
On October 1, 1949, Clark married businessman George Myers in Los Angeles. [4] They were divorced on July 14, 1950. [5] In 1953 she married William Jerome Otto, 24-year-old heir to a drug chain; the union was unsuccessful and she sued for divorce nine months later, asking to be repaid $625 that he had borrowed. [6] In 1956 she met her future husband, Ron Zalimas, on the set of a Burns and Allen TV show. He was 15 years her junior, [7] but they remained married until her death in 2002.[ citation needed]
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This article needs additional citations for
verification. (September 2020) |
Judy Clark (June 9, 1921 – December 27, 2002)[ citation needed] was an American film and television actress and singer. Clark adopted a brash and energetic singing style, similar to that of musical-comedy star Betty Hutton.
Clark was the daughter of Jack Kaufman, who was a vaudeville performer. [1] She and comedian Jack Gilford were among the new faces in the stage show Meet the People; Universal Pictures signed both for the Gloria Jean musical Reckless Age (1944).[ citation needed]
Clark won the juvenile lead in the 1944 Benny Fields musical Minstrel Man, in which she delivered two songs in the Hutton manner. The role reflected Clark's own life, as a rising star in a theatrical family.[ citation needed] She continued to work in pictures through the mid-1940s, including the Joan Davis musical comedy Beautiful but Broke (1944), the Cinderella-styled comedy The Kid Sister (1945), the Freddie Stewart musical Junior Prom (1946), In Fast Company with The Bowery Boys (1946), and the Jean Porter musical Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947). Beginning in 1949, with fewer musicals being made, she worked in the action/adventure field, in two serials, Bruce Gentry and Desperadoes of the West. Altogether she appeared in more than two dozen films and several television productions.
Clark's work as a singer included performing with Jimmy McHugh's Hollywood Singing Stars. [2] She also danced and sang in the stage musical Lend an Ear at the Las Palmas Theater. [3]
Clark was diagnosed with anemia, resulting in pain in both ankles and thus forcing her to give up dancing.[ citation needed]
On October 1, 1949, Clark married businessman George Myers in Los Angeles. [4] They were divorced on July 14, 1950. [5] In 1953 she married William Jerome Otto, 24-year-old heir to a drug chain; the union was unsuccessful and she sued for divorce nine months later, asking to be repaid $625 that he had borrowed. [6] In 1956 she met her future husband, Ron Zalimas, on the set of a Burns and Allen TV show. He was 15 years her junior, [7] but they remained married until her death in 2002.[ citation needed]