Job Actress
Years active 1949-1955
Top Roles Cathy Eversham, Townswoman, Holiday Carleton, Eden Lane, Meg Dixon
Top GenresDrama, Western, Comedy, Film Noir, Mystery, Adventure
Top TopicsGangsters, Gambling, Money
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Barbara Payton Overview:

Actress, Barbara Payton, was born Barbara Lee Redfield on Nov 16, 1927 in Cloquet, MN. Payton died at the age of 39 on May 8, 1967 in San Diego, CA .

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Day 16 of Noirvember: Remembering

By shadowsandsatin on Nov 16, 2016 From Shadows and Satin

Of all the tragic stories in Hollywood, ?s is one of the saddest. On the occasion of her birth, November 16, 1927, we remember her today. Click here?for information on Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Story, a first-rate biography on the actress by film historian John O’... Read full article

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Barbara Payton Quotes:

Lena: An empty mind... and a new beginning!

Flo: You'd get your pockets picked in a graveyard!

Ralph Cotter: Why, I thought you were the law-abiding type.
Holiday Carleton: I guess I'm just whatever you make me.

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Barbara Payton Facts
In September, 1949, her boyfriend, Don Cougar, a movie extra and drug dealer, beat up her elderly landlady in the middle of the night in a dispute over the amount Barbara owed for rent. In 1950, Barbara and Cougar were called before a Federal Grand Jury to testify in the perjury trial of Stanley Adams. Adams was a drug dealer already serving time for the murder of Abe Davidian, an informant. Barbara and Cougar supplied Adams with an alibi, but it was weak, and Adams was found guilty of perjury.
In 1951, while already engaged to Franchot Tone, she proposed marriage to Tom Neal. She allowed him to move into her apartment, which Tone was paying the rent for. She kicked him out when Tone returned from out of town. After this, she went back and forth publicly from being engaged to Neal to being engaged to Tone. Neal and Tone eventually got into a terrific brawl, resulting in Tone lying in a coma in the hospital for 18 hours. After being married to Tone for 53 days, she walked out on him and returned to Neal.
In 1956, her ex-husband Payton accused her of neglecting their son, who had been living with Barbara since he was about 4. A custody battle followed, with her ex-husband accusing her of exposing their son to "profane language, immoral conduct, notoriety, unwholesome activities and no moral education." The judge ruled in favor of the boy's father, and labeled Barbara as "...an unfit mother, not to mention a thoroughly confused and misguided young woman."
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