Mari Blanchard Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Mari Blanchard (April 13, 1927 – May 10, 1970) was an American actress, known for her roles as a B movie femme fatale in American films of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Net Worth
$4 Million
Date Of Birth
April 13, 1923
Died
1970-05-10
Place Of Birth
Long Beach, California, USA
Height
5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Profession
Actress, Soundtrack
Nicknames
Mari Blanchard, Blanchard, Mari
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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[on the importance of women maintaining a clean reputation in Hollywood] I think that every film star has a tremendous responsibility to the public. We owe them dignity and decorum. If a girl wants to act like a burlesque stripper, then she should be in burlesque and not in movies.
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Basically I'm a career girl. I want to prove myself as an actress. Maybe I won't . . . But I'll have to search until I do. I'll do it--or die trying. I've got lots to learn about pictures . . . I've worked hard. When I know I haven't given my best to a scene, I suffer.
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Fact
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Appeared once in a bubble bath commercial ad for Kodak that appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. A Paramount Pictures exec caught it and signed her to a film contract. She stayed with the studio for over a year but never did better than extra and bit parts.
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An excellent swimmer, she won a number of swimming prizes. She later modeled bathing suits in Southern California and then professionally in New York through the Conover Agency.
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Battled cancer for over seven years. Was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
4
Had a passion for animals. Her two Afghans and Chihuahua were all female. She was on location for the film Black Horse Canyon (1954) when she fell in love with a female baby burro(!) -- and took it home.
5
First husband, Reese Taylor Jr., was an L.A. lawyer whose first wife had given him four sons. When Mari announced she was pregnant in April 1960, two months into the marriage, he left her because he didn't want any more children. Mari lost the baby later that year.
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Mari's name, along with those of June Allyson, Anita Ekberg and Zsa Zsa Gabor, were found in a "little brown book" kept by handsome, infamous gangster Johnny Stompanato, who was stabbed to death by Lana Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane.
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Beautiful, worldly-looking American actress of 1950s Easterns and Westerns who typically played alluring harem girls and saloon dancers in "B" films.
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Mari's beautiful blue-eyed brunet (later blonde) looks and 36-25-36 figure became the inspiration for cartoonist Al Capp in creating his voluptuous character "Stupefyin' Jones" for the popular "L'il Abner" comic strip series.
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At age 17 she ran away from home to join the Cole Brothers Circus and learned how to ride elephants, perform bareback on horses and fly on the trapeze bar. Her mother found her and took her back home.
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Her father worked in the oil and mining business.
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One of the few actresses who diligently answered all her own fan mail.
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She suffered from severe polio at age nine and it took three years before she was able to walk again. According to Brad Richards' full-length article on Mari in the Spring 2013 issue of Films of the Golden Age, she credits the courage and obstinacy of her mother, a psychotherapist, for pulling her through. Her mother did not permit braces or injections but used Hawaiian massages and three-times-a-day hot water soakings. Mari claims that her first year was spent in a wheelchair and progressed to crutches in the second. By the third year she was back in school and had no ill effects whatsoever.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
It Takes a Thief
1968
TV Series
Madame Gamar
The Virginian
1967
TV Series
Marie Coulter
Burke's Law
1965
TV Series
Mrs. Vasquez
Valentine's Day
1965
TV Series
Breaking Point
1964
TV Series
Rose Sinclair
McLintock!
1963
Camille Reedbottom
Twice-Told Tales
1963
Sylvia Ward
Don't Knock the Twist
1962
Dulcie Corbin
Perry Mason
1962
TV Series
Irene Chase
The Detectives
1962
TV Series
Viola Cody
77 Sunset Strip
1961
TV Series
Jane Wiley / Countess Van Hohenstein
Hawaiian Eye
1961
TV Series
Dorothy Winters
Gunslinger
1961
TV Series
Contessa Maria del Aguilar
The Roaring 20's
1961
TV Series
Zelda Valmy
Klondike
1960-1961
TV Series
Kathy O'Hara
Rawhide
1959-1961
TV Series
Laura Carter / Margarita Colinas
Sea Hunt
1960
TV Series
Charlotte Hanley
Bronco
1960
TV Series
Lola Dalzel
Mr. Lucky
1960
TV Series
Miss Grey
Laramie
1960
TV Series
Sally
Tales of Wells Fargo
1960
TV Series
Kitty
Bachelor Father
1959
TV Series
Nora Daley
Sugarfoot
1959
TV Series
Adah Isaacs Menken
Not for Hire
1959
TV Series
Helen
The Texan
1959
TV Series
Catherine Crawford
Shotgun Slade
1959
TV Series
Hannrahan
Karasu
1958
Machete
1958
Jean Montoya
No Place to Land
1958
Iris Lee LaVonne
The Millionaire
1957
TV Series
Policewoman Laura Hunter
Jungle Heat
1957
Ann McRae
She Devil
1957
Kyra Zelas
Stagecoach to Fury
1956
Barbara Duval
Canasta de cuentos mexicanos
1956
Gladys Winthrop (segment "Canasta") (as Marie Blanchard)
The Cruel Tower
1956
Mary 'The Babe' Thompson
Casablanca
1956
TV Series
Elsa Norden
The Ford Television Theatre
1956
TV Series
Lee Forsythe
It's a Great Life
1955
TV Series
Lorraine
The Crooked Web
1955
Joanie Daniel
The Return of Jack Slade
1955
Texas Rose
Son of Sinbad
1955
Kristina
Climax!
1955
TV Series
Destry
1954
Brandy
Black Horse Canyon
1954
Aldis Spain
Rails Into Laramie
1954
Lou Carter
The Veils of Bagdad
1953
Selima
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953
Allura
Terry and the Pirates
1952
TV Series
Burma
Your Jeweler's Showcase
1952
TV Series
Back at the Front
1952
Nina (Johnny Redondo's accomplice)
Assignment: Paris
1952
Wanda Marlowe (scenes deleted)
The Brigand
1952
Dona Dolores Castro
Something to Live For
1952
Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Overland Telegraph
1951
Stella
The Unknown Man
1951
Sally Tever
Ten Tall Men
1951
Marie DeLatour
Bannerline
1951
Eloise (uncredited)
No Questions Asked
1951
Natalie
On the Riviera
1951
Eugenie (uncredited)
Mr. Music
1950
Chorine (uncredited)
Copacabana
1947
Copa Girl (uncredited)
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Destry
1954
performer: "Bang Bang", "If You Can Can-Can", "Empty Arms"