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- Birth nameRosalind Jane Hirschfield
- Lynne graduated in 1967 from Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where she starred as Emily in "Our Town" and was a gifted pianist.
She trained as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Her classmates included Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. She adopted Deerfield as her name because Hirschfeld, when translated from German to English, is Deerfield.
She married three times. Her first husband was Paul Mates, a Wall Street lawyer. In 1975, she married Bill Beutel, the late ABC news anchor. After they divorced, she married Michael Kelly who preceded her in death.
She returned to St. Louis in the mid-1980s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Andy the Actuary
- SpouseBill Beutel (divorced)
- Lynn Deerfield was actually a contestant on the original The Match Game (1962) in 1969. She won $450. Her team captain was Burt Reynolds, whom Lynn later admitted she'd never heard of. She appeared as a celebrity panelist in 1976 while a cast member of Guiding Light (1952).
- During one show during her week on Match Game '76, she said that while growing up she had two dogs named "Yam" and "Kipper".
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