Barbara Payton Net Worth is
$20 Million

Mini Biography

Among the saddest stories ever to emerge from Hollywood must be that of Barbara Payton. A blue-eyed, peroxide blonde sexpot who experienced a lot choosing her, her existence eventually disintegrated, mainly by her personal doing. Things began sufficiently for Barbara Lee Redfield, created on November 26, 1927, in Cloquet, Minnesota. From a modest, blue-collar history, she was raised to be always a drop-dead beautiful young female and, carrying out a quickie relationship at age group 19, made a decision to go away for good to attempt to capitalize on her behalf visual appearance in Tinseltown. She going for Hollywood in 1948 and, within a short while, was placed directly under agreement by General, where she started the normal starlet path of little bit parts. She reached her top with regular but appealing co-star work contrary Adam Cagney in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), Gary Cooper in Dallas (1950) and Gregory Peck in mere the Valiant (1951). Although her skill (5) was overshadowed by her brassiness (10) and appears (10), her somewhat lurid appeal appeared to be plenty of to transport her through. Swept up in the glitz and glamor, nevertheless, her profession started acquiring second spot to a reckless existence filled with capricious romances concerning several top celebrities and producers, most of them wedded. Among her more well-known trysts finished up producing headlines on her behalf, and none of these advantageous. She was juggling two boyfriends at the same time, stylish “A” professional Franchot Build and muscular “B” professional Tom Neal, plus they fought nearly to the loss of life for Barbara’s affections. On Sept 13, 1951, the guys involved in a dangerous brawl so when it had been over, Tone is at a healthcare facility with broken bone fragments and a human brain concussion. Barbara were left with both a dark eyes and a tarnished popularity. She wedded Build after he retrieved, but still left him after just seven weeks and came back towards the violence-prone Neal. That abusive romantic relationship lasted four years, though they hardly ever wedded. During that period Barbara’s profession acquired plummeted to the main point where she was producing such dismal features as Bride-to-be from the Gorilla (1951). She visited England to attempt to rejuvenate her profession, but no dice; it had been over and her lifestyle was skidding uncontrollable. Her once gorgeous face today blotchy and her once magnificent figure today bloated, Barbara sank much deeper into the container. From 1955 to 1963 there have been several brushes with regulations – included in this passing bad assessments, community drunkenness and, eventually, prostitution. She was compelled to rest on bus benches, was beaten and bruised by her tips, and lost tooth along the way. In 1967, after failed initiatives to curb her taking in, she finally transferred along with her parents in NORTH PARK to attempt to dry out. It had been too late. ON, MAY 8, 1967, the 39-year-old previous starlet was on the bathroom ground – deceased of center and liver failing. Somehow through all of this misery she handled a tell-all publication ironically entitled “I Am Not really Ashamed” (1963).

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Barbara Payton
Died	May 8, 1967, San Diego, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Pin-up model
Nationality	American
Spouse	George A. Provas, Franchot Tone, John Payton Jr., William Hodge
Children	John Lee Payton
Parents	Erwin Lee Redfield, Mabel Irene Todahl
Siblings	Frank Leslie III Lee Redfield
Movies	Trapped, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Dallas, Bride of the Gorilla, Only the Valiant, Drums in the Deep South, The Flanagan Boy, Four Sided Triangle, Run for the Hills, Murder Is My Beat, 4 for Texas, The Great Jesse James Raid