Gloria Saunders

**VintageKell** · August 27th, 2012, 12:02 PM

Gloria Saunders b. September 29, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, and died:June 4, 1980 (age 52). Started her career in "Bonnie Lassie" (short) in 1944 and her last appearance in the "The Donna Reed Show" (TV series) in 1960 ... most of her work was in TV.

She originally screen tests at Paramount at age 16, but after a few child parts she is critically injured in a car accident in 1945. Her face is cut and lacerated from the tip of her chin to her forehead ... it takes a number of visits to the best plastic surgeons in the country until she is able to say that "you won't find a tell-tale mark of the accident". She then meets TV director Arthur Rue "Tommy" Thompson while appearing a year in TV mysteries and marries him. Her first baby is born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1954 but by 1956 she divorces Thompson. She later remarries and on 4th June of 1980 as Gloria Ella Maier, she dies aged 52 in Kern County, California.

Trivia:

Her comeback was difficult, as illustrated when columnist John Crosby wrote that TV's "Stars Over Hollywood" is "a misnomer because it has produced no genuine stars, in fact no name actors of any importance of all. Leading role in the one I mentioned was filled by Gloria Saunders whoever she is".
In October 1951 columnist Erskine Johnson wrote: "All Hollywood's cheering the comeback of Gloria Saunders in 3000 A.D., Red Snow, and other films. Plastic surgery removed the scars of an auto accident a couple of years ago".

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Vintage safety negatives. Unrestoreded negatives of a couple of portraits of pretty Gloria Saunders in her first year at Paramount, 1944.

She would later make her mark as "The Dragon Lady" in the 1952 TV series, Terry and the Pirates.

Gallery link: https://imgbox.com/g/Naw9lxVCxq

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VintageKell Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Underground in the Mountains of Madness Posts: 2,790 Thanks: 1,012 Thanked 96,982 Times in 2,804 Posts	Gloria Saunders Gloria Saunders b. September 29, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, and died:June 4, 1980 (age 52). Started her career in "Bonnie Lassie" (short) in 1944 and her last appearance in the "The Donna Reed Show" (TV series) in 1960 ... most of her work was in TV. She originally screen tests at Paramount at age 16, but after a few child parts she is critically injured in a car accident in 1945. Her face is cut and lacerated from the tip of her chin to her forehead ... it takes a number of visits to the best plastic surgeons in the country until she is able to say that "you won't find a tell-tale mark of the accident". She then meets TV director Arthur Rue "Tommy" Thompson while appearing a year in TV mysteries and marries him. Her first baby is born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1954 but by 1956 she divorces Thompson. She later remarries and on 4th June of 1980 as Gloria Ella Maier, she dies aged 52 in Kern County, California. Trivia: Her comeback was difficult, as illustrated when columnist John Crosby wrote that TV's "Stars Over Hollywood" is "a misnomer because it has produced no genuine stars, in fact no name actors of any importance of all. Leading role in the one I mentioned was filled by Gloria Saunders whoever she is". In October 1951 columnist Erskine Johnson wrote: "All Hollywood's cheering the comeback of Gloria Saunders in 3000 A.D., Red Snow, and other films. Plastic surgery removed the scars of an auto accident a couple of years ago". Pictures: Last edited by Wendigo; April 30th, 2016 at 02:31 PM.. Reason: removed dead image

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