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Cleo Moore
Cleo Una Moore (October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She also became a well-known pin-up girl.
Moore was born in in Galvez, Louisiana, and raised in nearby Gonzales. Her father ran a grocery store. She was educated in Gonzales public schools and took a secretarial course at Pope's Commercial College in Baton Rouge.
She married Palmer Long, the youngest child of Huey Long, the former governor of Louisiana who was assassinated while a senator, but the marriage ended in six weeks.
Moore was named Miss Van Nuys for 1947–1948.
Moore made her film debut in 1948 in Embraceable You. She also played the leading lady in the film serial Congo Bill and worked for Warner Bros. briefly in 1950. She worked for RKO Pictures from 1950 to 1952, appearing in films such as Hunt the Man Down and Gambling House.
She signed with Columbia Pictures in 1952. The studio had plans to mold Moore as its next film star, hoping that she would bring Columbia the success that Twentieth Century-Fox was enjoying with Marilyn Monroe. In order to compete with Monroe, Moore's hair was bleached platinum blond. Columbia dubbed her "The Next Big Thing" and "The Blonde Rita Hayworth". She first gained attention as a doomed gun moll in Nicholas Ray's film noir On Dangerous Ground in 1952.[citation needed]
Moore began starring in films in 1952. In 1953, she appeared in One Girl's Confession, opposite Hugo Haas, who directed and appeared with her in several other films. She starred in Thy Neighbor's Wife (1953) and Bait (1954), both directed by Haas.
In 1954, she starred in The Other Woman, playing a vengeful B-movie bit player. Upon completing a supporting role in Women's Prison (1955), Moore signed a brief deal with Universal Pictures to play a suicidal prostitute in the low-budget thriller Hold Back Tomorrow (1955), again opposite Agar.
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Cleo Moore
Cleo Una Moore (October 31, 1924 – October 25, 1973) was an American actress, usually featured in the role of a blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s, including seven films with Hugo Haas. She also became a well-known pin-up girl.
Moore was born in in Galvez, Louisiana, and raised in nearby Gonzales. Her father ran a grocery store. She was educated in Gonzales public schools and took a secretarial course at Pope's Commercial College in Baton Rouge.
She married Palmer Long, the youngest child of Huey Long, the former governor of Louisiana who was assassinated while a senator, but the marriage ended in six weeks.
Moore was named Miss Van Nuys for 1947–1948.
Moore made her film debut in 1948 in Embraceable You. She also played the leading lady in the film serial Congo Bill and worked for Warner Bros. briefly in 1950. She worked for RKO Pictures from 1950 to 1952, appearing in films such as Hunt the Man Down and Gambling House.
She signed with Columbia Pictures in 1952. The studio had plans to mold Moore as its next film star, hoping that she would bring Columbia the success that Twentieth Century-Fox was enjoying with Marilyn Monroe. In order to compete with Monroe, Moore's hair was bleached platinum blond. Columbia dubbed her "The Next Big Thing" and "The Blonde Rita Hayworth". She first gained attention as a doomed gun moll in Nicholas Ray's film noir On Dangerous Ground in 1952.[citation needed]
Moore began starring in films in 1952. In 1953, she appeared in One Girl's Confession, opposite Hugo Haas, who directed and appeared with her in several other films. She starred in Thy Neighbor's Wife (1953) and Bait (1954), both directed by Haas.
In 1954, she starred in The Other Woman, playing a vengeful B-movie bit player. Upon completing a supporting role in Women's Prison (1955), Moore signed a brief deal with Universal Pictures to play a suicidal prostitute in the low-budget thriller Hold Back Tomorrow (1955), again opposite Agar.