#74 Lynn Merrick

Lynn Merrick was a sultry-looking brown-eyed blonde (a knockout combination, but not a very typical one). She was in plenty of oaters (as the sweetheart), but also got in some other B-grade genre pieces as well. Her entire career lasted only about seven years, though she did manage to bag 45 big-screen credits in that short time.

Real Name:  Marilyn Llewellyn (too many L’s?)

Embarrassing Real Birthplace:  Fort Worth

Cheesy Pageant Titles

• Zoom Girl, San Diego Naval Air Station Torpedo Shop
• Baby Star, Western Association of Motion Pictures Advertisers
• The Perfect Figure Girl

Embarrassing Movies

• Meet Miss Bobby Sox
• Youth on Parade
• The Gay Vagabond
• Dangerous Blondes
• Escape from Terror

Inadvertently Suggestive Taglines

• KILLER PROWLS BEHIND THE SCENES OF GAY BROADWAY!
• A Gay Threesome OUT FOR FUN!
• IT'S GAY IN A GREAT BIG WAY!

Rather Odd Taglines

• IT'S A CYCLONE OF SIX-GUNS! A blitzkrieg of bullets and badmen!
• The Strange Case of the HAUNTED Lighthouse!
• Blazing Action in the Land of Thrills as the First Telegraph Goes Up in the West!
• Marked NG by the MVD!

Boring Characters

• Joan Perry
• Caroline Johnson
• Betty Dixon
• Linda Weaver
• Mary Phillips
• Barbara Taylor
• Helen Carter
• Susan Parker
• Ruth Norton
• Sue Martin

Shortest Marriage:  2 years

Unlikely Spouses & Boyfriends

• John Ringling North (of the circus family)
• Marquess of Milford Haven

Whiffs of Scandal

• Suicide attempt
• 1st husband was 25 years her senior
• Eloped w/ 2nd husband
• 2nd husband disowned by mother, Princess Riabouchinsky of Florence, when he married her

Interesting tidbits

• AKA Marilyn Merrick
• Originally a model, and then later an executive director at Barbizon
• No relation to Doris

Where can I learn more?

• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
• IMDb
• Obit
• Article on her career in Westerns
• Wikipedia 

 

Possibly the weirdest pic in this whole blog

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