Alma Jean Moorhead (born February 4, 1935) is an American retired

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and

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. Billed under an alternatively spelled surname, Jean Moorehead, she was ''

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'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the October 1955 issue. Her

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was photographed by Hal Adams.

Biography

Jean Moorhead was adopted by Henry and Estelle Moorhead. She had a sister, Marilyn Moorhead. A former Miss Hollywood, Jean Moorhead acted in such movies as the

Ed Wood Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several B movie, low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult c ...

-scripted '' The Violent Years'' (1956) and a guest spot on the TV Western ''

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'' (one episode, 1957). Her last billed performances were in two low-budget 1959 films, ''Gunmen from Laredo'' and '' The Atomic Submarine'', with one more (unbilled) appearance in the 1960

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musical '' Bells Are Ringing''. In the 1960s, she married Dr. Theodore Polos and had two children.

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