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AKA: Barbara Anne Loden
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 00/00/1932
Birthplace: Marion, North Carolina, USA
Death Date: 09/05/1980
biography
Former pin-up and model for magazine stories who studied acting in New York in the early 1950s and began appearing on Broadway toward the end of the decade. A gentle-looking blonde with delicate, angular features, Loden was discovered by director Elia Kazan at an audition for his 1960 feature "Wild River" and made her debut in that film with a bit part as Montgomery Clift's secretary. Kazan then featured her as Warren Beatty's wild, wayward sister in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) and in 1964, as founder and director of the newly-formed Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, he starred her in the
Moved to NY at age 16; worked as a model for detective stories and romance magazines and did some pinup modeling work; danced in chorus of Copacabana nightclub (date approximate)
1955
Stage debut in "Out of This World"
1956
Appeared on TV in "The Ernie Kovacs Show" and "The Tonight Show" (1956-57) when Kovacs hosted the show
Appeared on NY stage in "Compulsion" (1957, director Alex Segal), "Look After Lulu" (1959), "The Long Dream" and "'41 in a Sack" (both 1960)
