1. Sharon Elizabeth Hugueny was an American actress who had a brief film and television career during the 1960s, appearing in 19 TV episodes and four feature films.
12 Facts About Sharon Hugueny
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Sharon Hugueny took language and ballet classes, had written a play at age 14, and a year later, in 1959, was attending San Fernando Valley State College as a student in drama.
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Sharon Hugueny's TV acting debut came on May 4,1960, a little over two months after the contract signing, in the episode "Shadow of the Blade", broadcast near the end of the first season of the detective series Hawaiian Eye, which gave her top billing among the guest cast.
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In 1961, Sharon Hugueny appeared in another four episodes and a major feature film, then divorced Evans in November and returned to Hollywood.
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Sharon Hugueny was seventh-billed in Parrish, a May 1961 release starring Karl Malden as a tobacco farm tycoon.
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Sharon Hugueny played Paige, his daughter, who competes for and wins the heart of Troy Donahue's title character against Connie Stevens and Diane McBain.
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Sharon Hugueny was barely three months past her 17th birthday and "[T]his beautiful, genteel innocent not only was a virgin when I married her, but had never been on a date".
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Back in Hollywood shortly before her 18th birthday, Sharon Hugueny was photographed attending Bob Ender's twist party with Richard Chamberlain, but found that leaving for New York and putting her contract with Warner Bros.
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Two months later, her third appearance on Hawaiian Eye, in the episode "Rx Cricket", which focused on Connie Stevens' title character, left Sharon Hugueny competing for attention among a number of other guest stars.
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Sharon Hugueny played Maria Cortez, the daughter a South American ambassador, who develops a crush on the show's congressman, played by William Windom, with the sensible title character Katie, diplomatically resolving the situation by introducing her to another congressman's handsome son.
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Only 20 years old at the time of the film's release, Sharon Hugueny was approaching the end of her career.
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Less than two years later, on April 16,1976, Sharon Hugueny married Gordon Cornell Layne, the 45-year-old writer and founder of Mid America Pictures.