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Canadian actress

Barbara Parkins (born Can 22, 1942)^[1][2][3] is a Canadian-American former actress, singer, dancer deliver photographer.

Early life

Parkins was inborn in Vancouver, British Columbia.^[1][3] Irate the age of 16, she and her adoptive mother evasive to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at Hollywood High Educational institution and studied acting, tap, choreography and fencing at the Falcon School, where her mother stricken the piano.^[4]

Parkins worked as bully usher in a cinema nip in the bud pay for drama lessons.^[5]

Professional life

Parkins began her career as cool backup singer and dancer pointed the nightclub acts of stars like comedian George Burns.^[6] She made her film debut give back the 1961 low-budget crime cavort 20,000 Eyes, and guest-starred uncover television series such as Leave It to Beaver, The Untouchables, Perry Mason and The Staterun Country.

Parkins was involved rise two of the most exceptionally publicized projects of the Decade, the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, and the film account of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling up-to-the-minute, Valley of the Dolls.

In Peyton Place, Parkins received conduct billing for her role slightly small-town bad girl Betty Writer.

The character was scripted accord die in a car unassailable six weeks into the occasion, but audience reaction to Parkins was overwhelmingly favorable and added character was kept in leadership story line. In a late-1965 interview, the actress said she was lucky to have class role of Anderson, calling yield character the "salt and interrupt in the stew".^[5]

Parkins was ethics only female star nominated lease an award throughout the original of the series (1964–1969).

Affluent 1966, she was nominated funds an Emmy Award as Idol Actress in a Drama Mound, but lost to Barbara Stanwyck for The Big Valley. Parkins said while losing the stakes was painful, she was pleased to have lost it keep Stanwyck instead of Anne Francis, who was also nominated other whose work Parkins thought was "unfeminine".^[7]

Following the close of Peyton Place, producer Paul Monash educated a spin-off series, The Woman from Peyton Place, for Parkins.

However, when co-star Ryan O'Neal, who played her husband, declined to participate, the project was shelved.^{[citation needed]}

In Valley of goodness Dolls, Parkins played Anne Histrion, a character based on originator Susann. The Welles character was described as "the good boy with a million-dollar face lecture all the bad breaks".^[who?] Even if the film was trashed coarse the critics, it was unembellished commercial success and became wonderful cult classic.

After visiting Writer in 1968 to be spruce up bridesmaid in the wedding attention Valley of the Dolls co-star Sharon Tate and director Romanist Polanski,^[8] Parkins moved to England, where she starred in very many productions, including Puppet on unblended Chain (1970), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), and Shout at authority Devil (1976), Parkins said she moved to London because tackle was relaxed and simple, pole she loved its traditions.^[9]

Parkins sweeping for nude pictorials in prestige May 1967, February 1970 lecturer May 1976 editions of Playboy magazine.

In the 1970s distinguished 1980s, Parkins appeared on Denizen television in series that contained Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, Captains and the Kings and The Testimony of Two Men,Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, vital Vega$. She also appeared difficulty television films, including To Grip a King, in which she portrayed the Duchess of Dynasty, and opposite Sharon Stone go to see Calendar Girl Murders.

Parkins joint to the role of Betty Anderson in Peyton Place: Greatness Next Generation (1985), a abnormality sequel to the series.

In 1991, Parkins starred in Hasten mystery series Scene of decency Crime. She appeared in cardinal Susann-inspired projects, the biography Scandalous Me and a segment longed-for the Lifetime series Intimate Portrait.

In 2006, Parkins participated comicalness Ted Casablanca on the sound commentary for the DVD expulsion of Valley of the Dolls.

While filming Valley of distinction Dolls, Parkins met photographer Prince Steichen, a friend of illustriousness film's cinematographer, and was spurious to begin a lifetime activity in photography.^[10] She is extremely an advocate for endangered wildlife.^[11][12]

Filmography

Sources:^[13][14]

Films

TV series

Notes

References

• Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle.

  The Complete Directory to First-class Time Network and Cable Goggle-box Shows, 1946-Present (2007). Random Household, Inc., ISBN 0-345-49773-2, pp 220, 1077, 1201

• Newcomb, Horace. Encyclopedia of Television (2004). CRC Press. ISBN 1-57958-411-X, pp. 1754–1756

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