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Barbara Weeks was an actress of the 1930s. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, Weeks entered into acting through her participation in the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1931 she was named as one of fourteen girls selected as a "WAMPAS Baby Star", which launched her into a brief but successful acting career, mostly in cliffhanger serials and B-movie films and B-Westerns. Eight of her films starred Tim McCoy, Buck Jones, Tom Tyler, and Charles Starrett. For a time she was married to B-Western actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. She left the film business in the late 1930s after she married Lockheed test pilot Lewis Parker in 1938. In 1945, after the end of World War II, Parker`s plane disappeared over the North Atlantic, and he was never found. Following the loss of her second husband, Weeks moved to New York City and began working as a model. In 1949 she married William Cox, with whom she had a son, Schuyler John Wing Cox. The couple was married for a short time, divorcing. She then moved to Las Vegas where she worked as a secretary. She died in Las Vegas only 10 days before her 90th birthday in 2003.
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes I had put the career behind me and had tried to forget it. Maybe things would have been different had I not had such a bossy mother and had Ziegfeld not died when he did. (Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Eddie Cantor had helped her career, but after Ziegfeld`s death in 1932 her career began to wane)Trivia Following the loss of her second husband, Weeks moved to New York City and began working as a model. In 1945, after the end of World War II, Lewis Parker`s plane disappeared over the North Atlantic, and he was never found. She left the film business in the late 1930s after she married Lockheed test pilot Lewis Parker in 1938. For a time she was married to B-Western actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. In 1931 she was named as one of fourteen girls selected as a "WAMPAS Baby Star". Variety printed her obituary in 1954, 49 years before she died. Left acting in 1938 to marry and later worked as a secretary for an aircraft manufacturer. She spent several weeks in the hospital after being attacked by a leopard whilst making a film at Warner Bros. In 1931, she was a "Wampas Baby Star" and the toast of Hollywood -- attending parties at Pickfair (Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks` home) and Paradise Ranch, the home of Cecil B. DeMille. She spent many weekends as the guest of William Randolph Hearst and his mistress, Marion Davies, at San Simeon. She was courted by some of the most glamorous men in Hollywood, among them Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. In old age, she was looked after by two Mexican caregivers, neither of whom had any idea that she had been a Hollywood star. | ||
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