Bridget Carr
Dutch or Belgian postcard, no. AX 294. Photo: Universal International.
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American actress Bridget Carr (1928-2017) was a Hollywood starlet working for MGM during the 1950s
Dolores Louise Carr was born in 1928 in Toledo, Ohio. She attended Woodward High School and later the American Academy in New York. In 1948, she worked as a showgirl at the Copacabana Club in New York City. Columnist Earl Wilson wrote that a "cutie at the Copa, studies Greek drama between shows..." In 1949, she left Copacabana and signed a seven-year contract with MGM at $200 a week. She was to star in Nancy Goes to Rio (Robert Z. Leonard, 1950) when a spider bit her and put her in a hospital with blood poisoning. In 1950, she met actor Robert Hutton on a blind date, and after his divorce, they married in 1951. He was 30; she was 21. Their daughter, Jolie Louise, was born at the end of the year, followed by a son, Robert Christopher, in 1954.
Bridget Carr appeared in such films as That Midnight Kiss (Norman Taurog, 1949) starring Kathryn Grayson, Please Believe Me (Norman Taurog, 1950) with Deborah Kerr, and Mark of the Renegade (Hugo Fregonese, 1951) starring Ricardo Montalban. After retiring in 1954, she wrote film scripts. She divorced Robert Hutton in 1963. A year later, she married James Robert Riley, with whom she had a son, James Patrick (1965). In 1981, she became the widow of Riley. In 2003, her son Robert Christopher died at age 49 from pneumonia with septic shock, the same cause of death as his father. Bridget Carr died in 2017 in Costa Mesa, California. She was 89.
Sources: Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Bridget Carr
Dutch or Belgian postcard, no. AX 294. Photo: Universal International.
It's Summer! So, it's time to bring back the vintage pin-up postcards and let the temperature rise. We have selected 30 sizzling vintage postcards of Hollywood actresses and an actor in swimwear.
American actress Bridget Carr (1928-2017) was a Hollywood starlet working for MGM during the 1950s
Dolores Louise Carr was born in 1928 in Toledo, Ohio. She attended Woodward High School and later the American Academy in New York. In 1948, she worked as a showgirl at the Copacabana Club in New York City. Columnist Earl Wilson wrote that a "cutie at the Copa, studies Greek drama between shows..." In 1949, she left Copacabana and signed a seven-year contract with MGM at $200 a week. She was to star in Nancy Goes to Rio (Robert Z. Leonard, 1950) when a spider bit her and put her in a hospital with blood poisoning. In 1950, she met actor Robert Hutton on a blind date, and after his divorce, they married in 1951. He was 30; she was 21. Their daughter, Jolie Louise, was born at the end of the year, followed by a son, Robert Christopher, in 1954.
Bridget Carr appeared in such films as That Midnight Kiss (Norman Taurog, 1949) starring Kathryn Grayson, Please Believe Me (Norman Taurog, 1950) with Deborah Kerr, and Mark of the Renegade (Hugo Fregonese, 1951) starring Ricardo Montalban. After retiring in 1954, she wrote film scripts. She divorced Robert Hutton in 1963. A year later, she married James Robert Riley, with whom she had a son, James Patrick (1965). In 1981, she became the widow of Riley. In 2003, her son Robert Christopher died at age 49 from pneumonia with septic shock, the same cause of death as his father. Bridget Carr died in 2017 in Costa Mesa, California. She was 89.
Sources: Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.