Barbara "Bobo" Sears Rockefeller (

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Jievutė Paulekiūtė; September 6, 1916 – May 19, 2008), also known professionally as Eva Paul, was an American actress. Through her marriage to

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, she was also a member of the

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from 1948 to 1954. They were the parents of

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Early life and career

Bobo was born on 6 September 1916 as Jievute Paulekiute (

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: Jievutė Paulekiūtė) in Noblestown, Pennsylvania to Julius Paulekas, a

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, and Jieva (

Ivanavicius), both destitute Lithuanian immigrants. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth. She spent her childhood in

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. Later, her family moved to

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. At the age of 17, she became Miss Lithuania. For her education, she attended

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. She also held the position of third secretary at the U.S. embassy in Paris. She was also featured on ''Times cover.

Personal

She married

on February 14, 1948 in a small, private ceremony attended by fewer than 10 people, including best man Laurence Rockefeller and maid of honor Isabel Paul. She divorced Rockefeller in 1954, reporting they had already been separated for four years and following what newspapers described as a "fierce legal battle", she won custody of her son and a $5.5 million settlement. She later had a brief engagement to hotelier Charles W. Mapes in 1962. Her son,

, a former lieutenant governor of Arkansas, died in 2006. She died on May 19, 2008, in

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Filmography

* '' Tobacco Road'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1945) * '' Bad Men of the Border'' (1945) * '' Code of the Lawless'' (1945) * '' The Road to Total War'' (1983) * '' Goodbye War'' (1983) * ''The Relationship'' (1988)

References

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