She was your typical B-movie drive-in bad girl - sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette, always bodacious. A tease, a taunter and a temptress throughout most her career, Fay Spain was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1932. She headed to New York where she initially found summer stock work and a bit of television exposure. One of her earliest TV ...
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Son Jock was born in 1954, the product of her first marriage to actor/screenwriter John Falvo.
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Won a scholarship to the University of Washington at age 16, but, by the end of her freshman year, headed for New York to pursue acting.
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Born Lona May Spain in Phoenix to R. C. Spain and Arminta Frances Cochran.
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In October of 1963, producer Albert Zugsmith filed a $12,750,000 lawsuit, in Los Angeles, against Fay and ten others for allegedly libeling, slandering and harassing him, during the making of The Great Space Adventure (1963) in the Philippine Islands. The action names her and co-star George Nader as defendants, along with nine others described as newspaper columnists for Philippine newspapers and motion picture personnel. Among the allegations are charges that she and Nader conspired with other defendants and "maliciously" made statements resulting in various derogatory articles appearing in Manila newspapers.
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Made her very first screen test with actor James Garner.
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She was chosen as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1956" by a group of veteran actors and actresses. The selecting group included Ginger Rogers.
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