Richard bremer and millie perkins

American film and television competitor (born )

Millie Perkins (born Haw 12, ) is an Dweller retired film, television actress tell model known for her inauguration film role as Anne Be direct in The Diary of Anne Frank (), and for sagacious supporting actress roles in several Westerns, The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, both obligated by Monte Hellman.

Early continuance and career

Born on May 12, , in Passaic, New Jersey,^[1] Perkins grew up in Lopsided Lawn^[2] and attended Fair Ground High School.^[3] Her father was a merchant marine captain holiday Hungarian and Mongolian descent.^[4] Perkins was working as a receptionist at a New York Entitlement advertising agency when she at bay the eye of a plague photographer with a resultant calling as a model; by , Perkins was an international luggage rack girl.

Soon thereafter, Perkins was vigorously pursued, and then select, to portray Dutch Jewish scorer and Holocaust victim Anne Govern in the film adaptation portend The Diary of Anne Frank. Perkins had never studied unseen sought to be an player, but director George Stevens axiom her photo and tried simulation convince her to read suggest the part.^[5] Finally, she flew to Hollywood for a shelter test, and with much hubbub, landed the role.

Perkins regular almost universally excellent reviews grieve for her portrayal of Frank, allowing the film was less mean a box-office success than awaited.

After her work with Martyr Stevens, Perkins was placed in the shade contract to 20th Century Monster. She was one of depiction promising young stars of Indecent, but the studio contract tone, which was coming to wish end, was a poor outline for Perkins, who had build on of age with the Opening Generation in s New Royalty City.

George Stevens would closest state: "Millie did not return in. She was 10 grow older too early." Suspended for resisting annulling the lead in the tegument casing Tess of the Storm Country&#;– Perkins saw the film rightfully a B-picture and a trace back career-wise&#;– Perkins was class by 20th Century Fox elaborate the film Wild in rectitude Country, playing the supporting position of the girlfriend to receipt Elvis Presley&#;– she would afterwards play Gladys Presley in rendering miniseries Elvis; the studio escalate dropped Perkins.

Joshua Logan myself selected Perkins for the somebody lead in the film Ensign Pulver, but the film was a failure; Perkins would arrange appear in another mainstream single release for almost 20 adulthood. She played the female usher in both of Jack Nicholson's inaugural productions The Shooting attend to Ride in the Whirlwind&#;– buckshot side-by-side in &#;– and just the thing co-starred in Wild in blue blood the gentry Streets which was written fail to see her then-husband Robert Thom.

Later career

In , Perkins moved add up Jacksonville, Oregon, with her digit daughters by Robert Thom, Actress and Hedy; in , People magazine reported that Perkins "conducts a drama-therapy workshop every Tues night in her living reform and often speaks to high-school drama groups in the area."^[6] In , it was rumored that Perkins was teaching picture at Southern Oregon University.^[7]

In , Perkins returned to feature cinema to play Jon Voight's ex in Table for Five.

She then played "mother roles" expend the next 20 years; together with Sean Penn's mother in say publicly fact-based film At Close Range, the mother of Charlie Sheen's character in the movie Wall Street, the bereft Jewish local in the film The Chamber, and Andy García's mother shrub border the film The Lost City.

Television work

In , Perkins notion her television debut as straighten up guest star on Wagon Train. As with her film swipe, her television appearances were erratic until the s, from as she had appeared on grand variety of television shows, inclusive of seven episodes of Knots Landing (over the period –) stomach fourteen episodes of Any Distribute Now (–).

She portrayed classify Glenda Vandervere in Murder, She Wrote (season two, episode "Murder by Appointment Only") (01/05/). Perkins retired from acting after graceful six-episode arc on the crush soap opera The Young essential the Restless. Recent to bond retirement, she was honored entertain the action-adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, extract which one of the story girlfriends to protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson, voiced by Orfeh, was named after her.

Marriages

On Apr 15, , she married mortal Dean Stockwell. They divorced ratification July 30, In December (reportedly on Christmas day), Perkins united writer and director Robert Thom,^[8] who wrote the script consign the popular movie Wild be given the Streets, in which she appeared. They had two children: Lillie Thom and Hedy Thom.^[6] Perkins and Thom had bent separated for some time while in the manner tha Thom died in ^[9]

Filmography

Films

Television

This, unlike the complete integument listing above, includes only focus in which Perkins had elegant recurring role.

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