1. Brigid Mary Bazlen was an American film, television and stage actress.
17 Facts About Brigid Bazlen
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Brigid Bazlen's father was Arthur Bazlen, a retail chain executive, and her mother was Maggie Daly, a newspaper columnist with Chicago's American.
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Life magazine ran two feature stories on the sisters with a young Brigid Bazlen appearing in the second.
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Brigid Bazlen was "discovered" in 1950 at the age of 6 waiting for a school bus in front of her house by an NBC executive.
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In 1958, Brigid Bazlen won the starring role in the children's program The Blue Fairy, broadcast by the independent station WGN-TV in Chicago on Monday nights.
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Brigid Bazlen won enormous critical praise for her performance and the show was recognized as the top children's program of 1958 winning a Peabody Award.
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Brigid Bazlen herself said of her role that she "flew around and had a wonderful time".
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Brigid Bazlen's mother turned these down and instead allowed her to take a part in the NBC TV comedy drama Too Young to Go Steady.
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The series starred Joan Bennett, and Brigid Bazlen played her daughter Pamela Blake.
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Brigid Bazlen won the part when she met the film's producer, Samuel Bronston, at a party to which Brigid Bazlen's mother had taken her.
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Nevertheless, Peter Haigh in ABC Film Review said of her performance in the film that Brigid Bazlen "displayed a nice sense of comedy", and Brigid Bazlen said that she found making the film "less of a strain" than the making of King of Kings.
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Brigid Bazlen appears in only one sequence, coaxing fur trapper Linus Rawlings into a trap, stabbing him and sending him falling into a lake.
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Brigid Bazlen returned to acting briefly in the early 1970s in Chicago dinner theater plays that included Nobody Loves an Albatross as Jean Hart playing opposite Gig Young, Under the Yum Yum Tree and Once More with Feeling.
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Brigid Bazlen was very proud of her work on The Blue Fairy.
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Brigid Bazlen moved to Bellevue, Washington, outside of Seattle and spent the latter part of her life caring for her mother Maggie Daly, who had developed a tumor on her left leg which ultimately led to the leg being amputated below the knee.
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Brigid Bazlen was a heavy smoker and her health began to decline as she entered her mid-40s.
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Brigid Bazlen died on May 25,1989, less than a month before her 45th birthday, although her death was not reported until almost a month later.