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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (February 2008) Leslie Parrish Born Marjorie Helen Parrish March 13, 1935 (1935-03-13) (age 74) Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, USA Occupation Actress Years active 1954-1978 Spouse(s) Eric Marlow 1956-1961 Richard Leslie Parrish (born 13 March 1935, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. She starred under her birth name, Marjorie Helen Parrish, until she changed it in 1959. (She should not be confused with Hollywood actress Helen Parrish, who died in 1959). Contents [hide] 1 Education 2 Movie Actress 3 Television 4 Marriages 5 Partial filmography 6 Selected TV appearances 7 References 8 External links // Education Parrish was a promising piano student at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. She discovered that by modeling she could earn more money than as a concert pianist. She came to New York City in November 1953. Before modeling she worked as a waitress in a diner. She joined the Home Theatre Group of professional performers who put on plays at a private theater in Hollywood. Ruth Warrick and Mark Herron were also members. Parrish believed the experience of facing a live audience made her a better actress and more capable of transforming a scripted part into a three-dimensional human being. Movie Actress Parrish signed with 20th Century Fox in 1954, when she was 19. The studio gave her statistics as 5 feet 6 inches, with measurements of 35 - 24 - 34. Her hair is reddish gold and she has gray Her two most notable roles are as lithe Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner (1959) and as the doomed Jocelyn Jordan in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). In Portrait of a Mobster (1961) Parrish plays the wife of a detective who consorts with criminals. She is the daughter of a bootlegger who rebuffs the advances of Dutch Schultz, played by Vic Morrow. Eventually she becomes disillusioned with the corruption among the police force, and she leaves her husband to live with Schultz. She made a number of films of the B-movie and sci-fi genres. Among these are Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Three on a Couch (1966), The Money Jungle (1968), The Candy Man (1969), The Devil's 8 (1969), Brother, Cry For Me (1970), and The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). Television In 1954, NBC-TV borrowed the studios of WPIX every weekday morning. Parrish was employed by NBC as its "human test pattern" in regard to color tones. She sat for hours on a stool in front of color cameras. All the while engineers adjusted the tints and the lighting, and worked with costumes in different tints. Parish was seldom seen on WNBC, Channel 4, since most of her color work was performed on closed-circuit television. Parrish was in an episode of the Kraft Suspense Theatre "The Kamchatka Incident" (1964). She performed with John | ||||
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