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Jinx Falkenburg

Jinx Falkenburg
Jinx Falkenburg.jpg
Yank, the Army Weekly – April 27, 1945
Born Eugenia Lincoln Falkenburg
(1919-01-21)January 21, 1919
Barcelona, Spain
Died August 27, 2003(2003-08-27) (aged 84)
Manhasset, New York
Resting place Ashes scattered at her farm residence in Duchess County, New York
Nationality United States
Occupation model, actress
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Tex McCrary
(m. 1945–2003)
Children 2 sons

Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg (January 21, 1919 – August 27, 2003) was an actress, expert swimmer and tennis star, and one of the highest-paid and a ubiquitous cover-girl models in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s - one of the first supermodels. She married journalist and influential publicist Tex McCrary in 1945.

Known as "Tex and Jinx" to most American households, the glamorous couple pioneered and popularized the talk-show format, first on radio and then in the early days of television. They hosted a series of interview shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s that combined celebrity chit-chat with discussions of important topics of the day.

Falkenburg was born to American parents in Barcelona, Spain; her father Eugene "Genie" Lincoln Falkenburg was an engineer for Westinghouse. Thinking the name would bring good luck, she was nicknamed Jinx by her mother Marguerite "Mickey" Crooks Falkenburg, an accomplished athlete and tennis player (Brazil women's champion in 1927), and the name stuck. All the Falkenburg offspring became known for their tennis abilities; younger brother Bob won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1948.

The family moved to Santiago, Chile, where she spent her early years. She first received media attention at age two when the New York Sun ran a full-page picture and story of her exploits as a "baby swimmer." A revolution in Chile caused the family to return to the United States and the family moved to Los Angeles, California. She attended Hollywood High School but left in 1935 at the age of 16 to pursue a career in acting and modeling.

The Falkenburgs were at the center of a younger social set at the West Side Tennis Club, the watering hole for the Hollywood crowd. While playing tennis there, she caught the eye of a talent scout for Warner Bros. and was signed to a studio contract. After a few brief walk-ons, her fluency in Spanish won her minor roles in a series of forgettable Spanish-language films made for distribution in Latin America.


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