Elaine Stewart

Elaine Stewart

Born: May 31, 1930
Died: June 27, 2011
in Montclair, New Jersey, USA
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Elaine Stewart was an American actress and model.

Stewart was born in Montclair, New Jersey as Elsy Steinberg. She was one of five children born into a German Jewish family. In 1961, nearing the end of her television career, she married actor Bill Carter. After her divorce from Carter, she married television producer Merrill Heatter on December 31, 1964. They had a son, Stewart, and a daughter, Gabrielle.

Stewart made her debut by winning Miss See in See Magazine in 1952, with measurements 34–25–36. She was in many magazines such as Playboy and Photoplay. She had a supporting role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), as Lila, a starlet who has a romantic fling with a producer played by Kirk Douglas. She was featured as the love interest of Sgt Ryan, played by Richard Widmark, in Take the High Ground! (1953) as Julie.

She appeared in other films, such as Brigadoon, Night Passage, Code Two, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, and The Adventures of Hajji Baba. Stewart had a small but key role, as Anne Boleyn, in 1953's Young Bess. She co-starred with Jeff Chandler in the film noir The Tattered Dress (1957), with Victor Mature in the western Escort West (1958) and shared top billing with John Derek in a 1958 adventure film, High Hell before turning to television.

Stewart guest-starred in TV series such as Bat Masterson and Burke's Law, both starring Gene Barry. In her last acting appearance on TV, she played Irene Grey in the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Capering Camera" in 1964. Stewart was a co-hostess on two 1970s game shows, Gambit with Wink Martindale and the nighttime edition of High Rollers with Alex Trebek, both produced by her husband, Merrill Heatter.

Stewart died on June 27, 2011, at the age of 81.

Movies for Elaine Stewart...

Title: Burke's Law
Character: Felicia
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Peccati d'estate
Title: Peccati d'estate
Character: Costanza
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
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Most Dangerous Man Alive
Title: Most Dangerous Man Alive
Character: Carla Angelo
Released: July 4, 1961
Type: Movie
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
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The Seven Revenges
Title: The Seven Revenges
Character: Tamara
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Title: The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Character: Monica Drake
Released: February 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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Title: The Third Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
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Escort West
Title: Escort West
Character: Beth Drury
Released: January 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is a Union soldier. Lassiter falls for Beth, and when Indians attack, they head to a cavalry camp where Lassiter must battle the Indians as well as Beth's fiancé.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Ann Eaton
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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High Hell
Title: High Hell
Character: Lenore Davidson
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Irene Grey
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Night Passage
Title: Night Passage
Character: Verna Kimball
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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The Tattered Dress
Title: The Tattered Dress
Character: Charleen Reston
Released: March 14, 1957
Type: Movie
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
Title: Meet Me in Las Vegas
Character: Eliane Stewart (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Title: The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Character: Princess Fakzia
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
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Brigadoon
Title: Brigadoon
Character: Jane Ashton
Released: September 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
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Take the High Ground!
Title: Take the High Ground!
Character: Julie Mollison
Released: October 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
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A Slight Case of Larceny
Title: A Slight Case of Larceny
Character: Beverly Ambridge
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
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Young Bess
Title: Young Bess
Character: Anne Boleyn
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
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Code Two
Title: Code Two
Character: Jane Anderson
Released: April 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Three young men train to become motorcycle cops.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Title: The Bad and the Beautiful
Character: Lila
Released: December 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
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Sky Full of Moon
Title: Sky Full of Moon
Character: Billie - the Change Girl
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino.
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Desperate Search
Title: Desperate Search
Character: Stewardess
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
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Everything I Have Is Yours
Title: Everything I Have Is Yours
Character: Showgirl
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
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You for Me
Title: You for Me
Character: Girl in Club Car
Released: July 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
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Singin' in the Rain
Title: Singin' in the Rain
Character: Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.