Mary Castle
| Mary Castle | |
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Castle appearing on movie poster.
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| Born |
Mary Ann Noblett January 22, 1931 Pampa, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 1998 (aged 67) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | lung cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1948–1962 |
| Spouse(s) |
William France Minchen (m. 1957–58) Wayne Cote (m. 1960–61) Erwin A. Frezza (m. 1971–72) |
| Children | Judy Ferguson (b. 1946) |
Mary Ann Castle (born Mary Ann Noblett, January 22, 1931 – April 29, 1998) was an American actress of early film and television whose personal problems destroyed her once burgeoning career. Her best known role was as female detective Frankie Adams in the syndicated western series, Stories of the Century, which aired from 1954 to 1955.
Castle was born to Erby G. Noblett, Sr. and Myrtle A. Noblett (née Brown) in Pampa, Texas. Her mother was one-sixteenth Quapaw Indian. The Nobletts moved to Fort Worth, Texas, then Phillips, subsequently a ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas, prior to relocating to Long Beach, California. At the age of nine, Castle contracted pneumonia. Her brother, Erby Noblett, Jr. (1927–1992), taught her trick riding and later became a police officer in Long Beach.
Castle gave birth to an out-of-wedlock daughter in Los Angeles in 1946.
At nineteen, Castle was a model for a bathing suit company. A studio scout became interested in her after seeing her photograph in a magazine. In August 1950, she was dubbed the "lady who looks more like Hayworth than Hayworth does." Her first contract was said to have been granted solely on the basis that the red-haired Castle indeed resembled Hayworth.Harry Cohn, boss of Columbia Pictures, was said to have envisioned Castle as a replacement for Hayworth, who had married Prince Aly Khan and was rearing a family.
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