14 Facts About Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1949, having majored in English.

Vanessa Brown was heard on Lux Radio Theatre, Skippy Hollywood Theatre, NBC University Theatre, and Theatre Guild on the Air.

Vanessa Brown was a junior member of the National Board of Review, the critical panel serving the motion picture industry.

RKO Radio Pictures brought her family to Los Angeles, and Vanessa Brown made her film debut in Youth Runs Wild.

RKO changed her screen name to Vanessa Brown and assigned her to a series of ingenue roles over the next few years.

Vanessa Brown was the eighth actress to play the role of Jane, appearing in Tarzan and the Slave Girl opposite Lex Barker, followed by a role in Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful.

Vanessa Brown acted in live television dramas of the early 1950s, including Robert Montgomery Presents and The Philco Television Playhouse, and she appeared on Pantomime Quiz and Leave It to the Girls.

Vanessa Brown later appeared on the television series The Wonder Years and Murder, Vanessa Brown Wrote.

Vanessa Brown had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Donna Kress in the episode "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma".

Vanessa Brown continued to do much television through the 1950s, and was one of the narrators of the United World Federalists documentary Eight Steps to Peace, along with Vincent Price and Robert Ryan.

Vanessa Brown was the author of Europa and the Bull, based on the legend of Europa.

Vanessa Brown was married to Dr Robert Alan Franklyn, a plastic surgeon, from 1950 to 1957.

Vanessa Brown has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a motion pictures star at 1621 Vine Street and a television star at 6528 Hollywood Boulevard.

Vanessa Brown was active in the Democratic Party, serving as a delegate to the party's national convention in 1956.