Terry Moore

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AKA: Helen Luella Koford, Helen Koford, Judy Ford, Jan Ford
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 01/07/1929
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

biography

Lively, full-figured lead of the post-WWII era, never a top star but one whose career, in retrospect, sums up much of 1950s attitudes about women, sexuality, and permissiveness. A photographer's child model, Moore entered films in 1940 in "Maryland" and played small parts in a variety of films under first her real name, and then as Judy Ford and Jan Ford. At 19 she played a girl convinced that her horse was the reincarnation of a dead uncle in the odd comedy "The Return of October" (1948). She attracted more attention the following year, however, in another strange, but decidedly better, film Continued

Credits

Betty Anderson
1957
Cast
Sidnee Hammond
Louise Wright
Dolly
Veronica Miller
Linda Pendleton
Terez Cernik
Susan Tavenner
Margaret Rancourt
Jean
Jennifer Evans
Janet Calvert
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milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Was employed as a photographer's model as a child; also performed on the radio
 
Worked as a child actress with the Pasadena Playhouse
1940 
Made feature film debut in "Maryland"; was also in "The Howards of Virginia" that year; at the time known under her original name, Helen Koford
1942 
Worked as "Judy Ford" in films including "My Gal Sal" (1942), "Gaslight" (1944) and "Son of Lassie" (1945)
1947 
Billed as "Jan Ford" in the feature, "The Devil on Wheels"
Continued

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