Early years
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Hartford is the daughter of Edgar Higgins and Beatrice Higgins (née Thomas). She attended East High School (Salt Lake City), East High School in Salt Lake City and LDS Business College before becoming a model.Career
Hartford initially achieved fame in the late 1940s as a model for ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue''. Her screen debut was in ''A Girl in Every Port (1952 film), A Girl in Every Port'' (1952), directed by Chester Erskine. In 1964-65, she made three guest appearances on ''Perry Mason (1957 TV series), Perry Mason''; as Leslie Ross in "The Case of the Accosted Accountant," as Lois Gray in "The Case of the Missing Button", and she played Rhonda Coleridge in "The Case of the Baffling Bug". In 1964, she also appeared in "The Bewitchin' Pool", (the last original episode of ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'' to be broadcast, but not the last one to be filmed). Hartford also guest-starred in ''Gunsmoke'', ''Burke's Law (1963 TV series), Burke's Law'', ''The Outer Limits (1963 TV series), The Outer Limits'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', ''The Cara Williams Show'', ''Batman (TV series), Batman'' (two episodes), ''Time Tunnel'', ''Land of the Giants'' and ''Lost in Space'' (three episodes). She appeared as the android Verda in the 1966 ''Lost in Space'' episode "The Android Machine" and in a sequel, "Revolt of the Androids". She also appeared in a third episode of ''Lost in Space'' as Nancy Pi Squared in the “Space Beauty” episode about an intergalactic beauty pageant.Personal life
Hartford married Howard Hawks on February 20, 1953, at his home in Hollywood, California. They divorced in 1959. In 1972, she married Stuart Cramer III. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes referred to as the Mormons.References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartford, Dee 1928 births 2018 deaths American film actresses American television actresses Actresses from Salt Lake City 20th-century American actresses Latter Day Saints from Utah Latter Day Saints from California 21st-century American women