Tuesday Weld was born on Susan Ker Weld; August 27,1943 and is an American actress.
47 Facts About Tuesday Weld
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Tuesday Weld began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s.
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Tuesday Weld won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960.
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Tuesday Weld was born Susan Ker Tuesday Weld in Manhattan on August 27,1943.
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Tuesday Weld's father was Lathrop Motley Weld, of the Weld family of Massachusetts.
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Tuesday Weld's father died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday.
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Tuesday Weld's mother, Lily Florence Bell Ker, was first cousin of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and his father, William Ker, was a Scottish businessman and banker.
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Tuesday Weld legally changed her name to Tuesday Weld on October 9,1959.
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Tuesday Weld's name became Tuesday, an extension of her childhood nickname, "Tu-Tu", so named by her young cousin, Mary Ker, who could not pronounce "Susan".
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Tuesday Weld's mother secured her an agent using her resume from modeling.
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Tuesday Weld made her acting debut on television at the age of 12, and her feature film debut that year in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama The Wrong Man.
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In 1956 Tuesday Weld played the lead in Rock, Rock, Rock, which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette.
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At Paramount Pictures, Tuesday Weld was in The Five Pennies, playing the daughter of Danny Kaye, who called Tuesday Weld "15 going on 27".
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Tuesday Weld guest-starred a number of times on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
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Tuesday Weld appeared in 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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Tuesday Weld played Thalia Menninger, the love interest of Dobie Gillis, whose rivals for Thalia's affection included Milton Armitage.
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Tuesday Weld made a second film for Zugsmith, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve, made in 1959 but not released for two years.
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Tuesday Weld guest starred on The Red Skelton Hour in "Appleby: The Big Producer" and on 77 Sunset Strip and The Millionaire.
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Tuesday Weld sang a love song to Fabian in the season opener of NBC's The Dinah Shore Chevy Show on October 9,1960.
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Tuesday Weld guested in "The Mormons" for Zane Grey Theatre.
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For Fox, Tuesday Weld had a supporting role in the sequel Return to Peyton Place, in the part played by Hope Lange in the original.
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Tuesday Weld supported Elvis Presley in Wild in the Country, along with Lange.
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Tuesday Weld supported Terry-Thomas in the Frank Tashlin comedy Bachelor Flat, for Fox.
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Tuesday Weld took three months off to go to Greenwich Village in New York and "study myself".
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Tuesday Weld won excellent reviews for a February 7,1962, episode in the Naked City, "A Case Study of Two Savages", adapted from the real-life case of backwood killers Charles Starkweather and Weld, cast as his young bride, Ora Mae Youngham, on a homicidal spree ending in New York City.
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In 1963 Tuesday Weld guest-starred as Denise Dunlear in The Eleventh Hour, in the episode "Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room" alongside Angela Lansbury.
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Tuesday Weld was in "The Legend of Lylah Clare" for The DuPont Show of the Week, directed by Franklin J Schaffner.
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Tuesday Weld appeared with her former co-star Dwayne Hickman in Heck Palance's circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth on ABC, in separate episodes.
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Tuesday Weld supported Bob Hope in the comedy I'll Take Sweden.
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Tuesday Weld appeared in 1965 in the successful Norman Jewison film The Cincinnati Kid, opposite Steve McQueen.
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Tuesday Weld got a star role in Lord Love a Duck, with Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, and Harvey Korman.
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Tuesday Weld received excellent reviews, but the film was a box office disappointment.
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Tuesday Weld followed it playing Abigail in a TV adaptation of The Crucible, opposite George C Scott and Colleen Dewhurst.
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The films Tuesday Weld did make included I Walk the Line, opposite Gregory Peck; A Safe Place, co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles and directed by Henry Jaglom, and Play It as It Lays, again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
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Tuesday Weld played the lead in the TV films A Question of Guilt, in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children, Mother and Daughter: The Loving War, a remake of Madame X, and a new version of The Rainmaker.
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In feature films, Tuesday Weld had a good supporting role in Michael Mann's acclaimed 1981 film Thief, opposite James Caan.
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Tuesday Weld later meets up with the gang from the robbery, and becomes the moll of James Woods' character Max Bercovicz.
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On TV, Tuesday Weld was in Scorned and Swindled, Circle of Violence and Something in Common.
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Tuesday Weld had a supporting role in Heartbreak Hotel.
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Tuesday Weld was reunited with Anthony Perkins in an episode of Mistress of Suspense.
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Tuesday Weld was married to screenwriter Claude Harz from October 23,1965, until their divorce on February 18,1971.
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Tuesday Weld was awarded custody of Natasha in the divorce and $100 a month in child support payments.
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Tuesday Weld told Guy Flatley of The New York Times in 1971:.
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Tuesday Weld married British actor, musician and comedian Dudley Moore on September 20,1975.
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The couple divorced in 1980, with Tuesday Weld receiving a $200,000 settlement plus $3,000 monthly alimony for the next 4 years and an additional $2,500 a month in child support.
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Tuesday Weld sold her beach house in Montauk, New York, in the late 2000s and moved to Carbondale, Colorado.
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Tuesday Weld bought a "tiny condo" there in 2021 for $335,000.