Jeanne Carmen
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| Born |
Jeanne Laverne Carmen August 4, 1930 Paragould, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | December 20, 2007 (aged 77) Irvine, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Pacific View Memorial Park |
| Other names | Jeannie Carman Saba Dareaux |
| Occupation | Actress, model, pin-up girl, trick-shot golfer |
| Years active | 1951-2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Sandy Scott (m. 1948-1949) a stockbroker (1963-?) |
| Children | Melinda, Brandon James, and Jade Austin |
| Website | http://www.jeannecarmen.com/ |
Jeanne Carmen (August 4, 1930 – December 20, 2007) was an American model, pin-up girl, trick-shot golfer, and B movie actress.
Jeanne Laverne Carmen was born in Paragould, Arkansas. As a child she picked cotton before running away from home at age 13. As a teen, she moved to New York City and landed a job as a dancer in Burlesque, with Bert Lahr. Later she became a model, appearing in several men's magazines. She also became a trick golfer, appearing with Jack Redmond.
While in her 20s, she came to Hollywood and appeared in B movies such as Guns Don't Argue and The Monster of Piedras Blancas. She played both brassy platinum-blondes and (with her natural dark hair) sultry Spanish women. Carmen's smouldering good looks, hourglass figure, and striking green eyes quickly landed her on the big screen in 1956 playing a feisty Spanish senorita named "Serelda" in The Three Outlaws, a Western based on the same events as the later Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and co-starring Neville Brand and Alan Hale, Jr as Butch and Sundance. She was then cast by producer/director Howard W. Koch as an Indian girl in War Drums alongside Lex Barker of Tarzan fame. Koch took a liking to Carmen and cast her in his next film for Warner Bros, the teenage rock 'n' roll juvenile delinquent themed Untamed Youth (1957), co-starring Rockabilly legend Eddie Cochran, which inspired Cochran to cover the song "Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie" for her.
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