Leslie Gaye Griffin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lisa Gaye (born 6 March 1935) is an American retired actress, singer, and dancer.She was born Leslie Gaye Griffin in Denver, Colorado. Her family moved from Denver to Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Gaye and her siblings make their careers in show business. Gaye's sisters Judith (Teala Loring) and Debralee (Debra Paget), and her brother Frank (Ruell Shayne) all entered the business as either cast or crew.Gaye made her first professional appearance at the age of seven. She began her acting career in 1954 and was a popular leading lady during the 1950s and 1960s, having made eighty-three film and television appearances before retiring in 1970 to raise a family. She was a talented dancer, as demonstrated in the rock-and-roll tribute movie, "Rock Around the Clock." (1956). Among her television appearances were five episodes each of the ABC/Warner Brothers detective series, Hawaiian Eye and 77 Sunset Strip, two episodes of another ABC-WB series, Bourbon Street Beat, seven episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, and eleven episodes of the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days. She appearance in one episode of Zorro in the 1957 season (Episode 13, Constance). She made a single appearance in the 1959 episode "The Peace Offering" of the syndicated western series, Pony Express, starring Grant Sullivan. Among her seven appearances on Perry Mason, Gaye played Rita Magovern who Mason exposed as the murderer of her husband Karl in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Traveling Treasure." She also appeared in several episodes of the Bat Masterson TV series. In two 1959 episodes; in "Sharpshooter", she played Laurie LaRue, the stage assistant and wife of stage sharpshooter, Danny Dowling. She also appeared in the 1959 episode"Buffalo Kill" as Susan. In the 1961 episode of Bat Masterson, "The Fatal Garment", she portrayed Elena, a Mexican Cantina owner.In 1959, she was cast as June Webster in the episode "Law West of the Pecos" of the ABC/WB western series, Colt .45, with Wayde Preston. Frank Ferguson played Judge Roy Bean, justice of the peace in Langtry, Texas. Douglas Kennedy was cast as Jay Brisco.
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[on working with Steve McQueen in Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)] We were shooting on the back lot and he asked me if I'd like a ride back to the soundstage, on his motorcycle. So I certainly said, "Sure". I made a big mistake by getting on his motorcycle. We went all over that lot, and not at a slow pace! He didn't slow down--he was always on the cutting edge. We zoomed right up to the soundstage where the doors were closed. He had it arranged that someone inside would open them at the last minute; but I thought we were goners for sure. After that ride, I said, "Thank you"' and never rode with him again.
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Her family moved to Los Angeles after her sister Teala was signed to a movie contract by Paramount. Lisa had a screen test at Universal International and signed with them in 1953.
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Her parents are Frank Henry Griffin, a painter, and Margaret Griffin, an actress.
She graduated from Hollywood Professional School in June 1953.
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She had a daughter, Lisa Janell (born July 5, 1963), with her husband, Bently.
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She had seven grandchildren.
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"B" movie actress of the 1950s who didn't make it past campy rock-n-roll schlock and horror opuses. A frequent dramatic star of the Perry Mason (1957) series, she retired in 1970 to raise her daughter.
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Was once up for the role of Anita in the film version of West Side Story (1961), which ultimately went to Rita Moreno, who won the Academy Award.
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