Dee Hartford (born Donna Higgins; April 21, 1928 - October 21, 2018) was an American television actress. She was married to

Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the Classical Hollywood cinema, classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is ...

from 1953 to 1959. Her sister was actress Eden Hartford; her former

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was comedian Groucho Marx.

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 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''. Her screen debut was in '' A Girl in Every Port'' (1952), directed by Chester Erskine. In 1964-65, she made three guest appearances on '' 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 ''

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'' to be broadcast, but not the last one to be filmed). Hartford also guest-starred in ''

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'', '' Burke's Law'', ''

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'', '' The Cara Williams Show'', ''

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'' (two episodes), '' Time Tunnel'', '' Land of the Giants'' and ''

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'' (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.

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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