Born on this day – Barbara Payton:

Barbara Payton

Actress

Writer

November 16, 1927 – May 8, 1967

Credits:

Book:

I Am Not Ashamed

By Barbara Payton.

ASIN: B00F3U2514

Published by Holloway House.

Published 1963.

Description:

This is the true story of Barbara Payton … her bold, shockingly frank, completely uninhibited autobiography. She sold both her body and her soul to achieve the dizzying heights of stardom … but she also planted the seeds of her degradation and destruction!

When her $10,000-a-week silver screen lifestyle was torn from her grasp, it left her to ultimately sell her body on the Sunset Strip for $5 a night and seek out an existence on cheap wine and the comfort of strangers. Was she a sexual revolutionary ahead of her time, or a lady of the night whose price merely dropped with her once-stunning looks? You decide, as you read this shocking true story …

Movies and television:

4 for Texas (1963); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974); Bad Blonde (1953); Bride of the Gorilla (1951); Dallas (1950); Drums in the Deep South (1951); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2002); Flickers! (2014–2016); Four Sided Triangle (1953); Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950); Murder Is My Beat (1955); Once More, My Darling (1949); Only the Valiant (1951); Run for the Hills (1953); Silver Butte (1949); The Arthur Murray Party (1952); The Great Jesse James Raid (1953); The Pecos Pistol (1949); Trapped (1949).