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Barbara
Payton (Birthday November 16,
1927 – May 8, 1967) was afilm actress.
Barbara Lee Redfield in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was raised in Odessa, Texas.
In 1945, at age seventeen, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in
movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she
began appearing in bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his
producer brother William, Payton starred in Cagney’s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in 1950.
From 1955 to 1963, there were
several skirmishes with the law - passing bad checks, public drunkenness,
mental illness, drug abuse, and, ultimately, prostitution. She was paid $1,000
for the ghost-written autobiography I Am Not Ashamed in 1963. Payton
admitted to sleeping on bus benches and to being beaten as a prostitute.
In 1951, while engaged to movie actor Franchot
Tone, Payton proposed marriage to actor Tom Neal. She went back and forth
publicly from being engaged to Neal to being engaged to Tone. Eventually, Neal,
a former college boxer, fought with Tone, giving him a smashed cheekbone, a
broken nose and a concussion, and leaving him in a coma in hospital for 18
hours. After being married to Tone for 53 days, she walked out on him and
returned to Neal. Their relationship lasted for four years. During that time,
the couple capitalized on the press coverage of their steamy affair by touring
in plays, such as "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
In addition to numerous love
affairs (including ones with Texas oilman Bob Neal and actor Guy Madison, and,
reportedly, James Cagney and Bob Hope) she was married four times: William
Hodge, John Lee Payton, an Air Force pilot with whom she had one child, John
Lee Payton Jr., Franchot Tone an actor, and George A. Provas.
In 1967, after
failed efforts to curb her drinking, she moved in with her parents in San Diego
in an attempt to dry out. On May 8, 1967, the 39-year-old died at her parents'
home; the cause of death was heart and liver failure.
Payton was cremated and is
interred in a niche at Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory in San Diego, California.
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