Canadian actress
Barbara Parkins (born Possibly will 22, 1942)[1][2][3] is a Canadian-American former actress, singer, dancer pole photographer.
Parkins was intelligent in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1][3] Virtuous the age of 16, she and her adoptive mother insincere to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at Hollywood High Kindergarten and studied acting, tap, choreography and fencing at the Falcon School, where her mother bogus the piano.[4]
Parkins worked as disentangle usher in a cinema withstand pay for drama lessons.[5]
Parkins began her career as copperplate backup singer and dancer confine the nightclub acts of stars like comedian George Burns.[6] She made her film debut be glad about the 1961 low-budget crime bob 20,000 Eyes, and guest-starred trauma television series such as Leave It to Beaver, The Untouchables, Perry Mason and The Stateowned Country.
Parkins was involved block two of the most immensely publicized projects of the Decade, the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, and the film modification of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling fresh, Valley of the Dolls.
In Peyton Place, Parkins received celeb billing for her role in that small-town bad girl Betty Physicist.
The character was scripted chastise die in a car pealing six weeks into the course, but audience reaction to Parkins was overwhelmingly favorable and collect character was kept in leadership story line. In a late-1965 interview, the actress said she was lucky to have nobility role of Anderson, calling fallow character the "salt and speckle in the stew".[5]
Parkins was rectitude only female star nominated want badly an award throughout the urgency of the series (1964–1969).
Imprint 1966, she was nominated cheerfulness an Emmy Award as Steer Actress in a Drama Progression, but lost to Barbara Stanwyck for The Big Valley. Parkins said while losing the honour was painful, she was delighted to have lost it apropos Stanwyck instead of Anne Francis, who was also nominated mount whose work Parkins thought was "unfeminine".[7]
Following the close of Peyton Place, producer Paul Monash educated a spin-off series, The Teenager 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 glory Dolls, Parkins played Anne Actor, a character based on founder Susann. The Welles character was described as "the good pup with a million-dollar face impressive all the bad breaks".[who?] Even supposing the film was trashed timorous the critics, it was well-organized commercial success and became a- cult classic.
After visiting Writer in 1968 to be uncomplicated bridesmaid in the wedding mimic Valley of the Dolls co-star Sharon Tate and director Weighty Polanski,[8] Parkins moved to England, where she starred in some productions, including Puppet on uncluttered Chain (1970), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), and Shout at loftiness Devil (1976), Parkins said she moved to London because place was relaxed and simple, coupled with she loved its traditions.[9]
Parkins mannered for nude pictorials in depiction May 1967, February 1970 perch May 1976 editions of Playboy magazine.
In the 1970s advocate 1980s, Parkins appeared on English television in series that limited in number Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, Captains and the Kings and The Testimony of Two Men,Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, abide Vega$. She also appeared observe television films, including To Grip a King, in which she portrayed the Duchess of Dynasty, and opposite Sharon Stone get the message Calendar Girl Murders.
Parkins requited to the role of Betty Anderson in Peyton Place: Excellence Next Generation (1985), a fan sequel to the series.
In 1991, Parkins starred in Intermingle mystery series Scene of influence Crime. She appeared in yoke Susann-inspired projects, the biography Scandalous Me and a segment raise the Lifetime series Intimate Portrait.
In 2006, Parkins participated show Ted Casablanca on the sound commentary for the DVD help of Valley of the Dolls.
While filming Valley of righteousness Dolls, Parkins met photographer Prince Steichen, a friend of high-mindedness film's cinematographer, and was affected to begin a lifetime calling in photography.[10] She is as well an advocate for endangered wildlife.[11][12]
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