Jolene Brand (born Jolene Marie Bufkin, July 21, 1934) is an American actress. She acted most in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in seven episodes of the

Ernie Kovacs Ernest Edward Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his dea ...

television shows.

Early years

Brand was from

Baldwin Park, California Baldwin Park is a city located in the central San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 72,176, down from 75,390 at the 2010 United States c ...

. She graduated from Covina High School and attended Mt. San Antonio College. She won an American Legion beauty contest in 1951 and was queen of the Los Angeles County Fair of 1953, Miss Red Feather, Miss Baldwin Park, the Future Farmers of America Queen, and a WAMPUS Baby Star.

Career

Early in her career, Brand performed in Las Vegas, and in 1955 she sang and danced at Ciro's night club in California. Also in 1955 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star. In 1958, she acted in the B-film '' Giant from the Unknown'', about a man who was frozen in suspended animation for 500 years and was freed by a lightning bolt and goes on a killing spree. Later that year she was signed up to play a part in the Disney television show ''

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''. She played the romantic interest for the main character played by Guy Williams. She was a model on the television series '' Queen for a Day'' as well. Brand portrayed " Indian Emily" in the 1959 episode of the same name on the syndicated television

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, ''

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'', hosted by Stanley Andrews. The setting is the

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outpost at Fort Davis,

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. Emily, an

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captive, adopts the white man's ways but flees when a young officer, Tom Easton ( Burt Metcalfe), whom she loves, prepares to marry someone else. She returns to warn the fort of a pending Apache attack, and dies of a gunshot wound fired in error after saving the fort. Meg Wyllie played Tom's compassionate mother, Mrs. Easton. A memorial at Fort Davis honors the heroism of Indian Emily. Brand and her husband George Schlatter were close friends with Kovacs and his wife, Edie Adams. Brand appeared with Kovacs in many of his later ABC-TV programs.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

References

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