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Mona Freeman

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A professional model while still in high school, Mona Freeman was signed to a movie contract by Howard Hughes, who then proceeded to sell her contract to Paramount. Starting out in typical juvenile parts, she developed into a very competent actress. As she worked her way out of the teenage ingénue role, however, she found that she had less success in adult roles, and instead of landing parts in "A" pictures she found herself relegated to "B" westerns and somewhat tawdry crime dramas (e.g., Flesh and Fury (1952), Shadow of Fear (1955)). She basically retired from film work in the late 1950s, but worked steadily in television for quite some time after that.
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To help her brother enter Yale, Mona took it upon herself to find modeling work and became a successful teenage cover girl for John Robert Powers. She also became one of the "Miss Subway" girls in New York.
After her divorce, she was known to have been seen around town with Nicky Rothschild, Vic Damone, Robert Wagner and Frank Sinatra.
Was in a relationship with Bing Crosby after the death of his wife Dixie Lee. They might have married but both were Catholic, and she was divorced.
Howard Hughes discovered her and gave her a two-year contract after seeing one of her photographs on a magazine cover. Frustrated that she was not cast in anything, Paramount wound up buying out her contract from Hughes, having never done a bit of work for the eccentric mogul.

She was cast in Angel Face (1952), an RKO/Howard Hughes production.
Her hobbies include portrait and landscape painting. She painted the well-known portrait of Mary See, the co-founder of See's Candies. According to the company this painting can be found in every one of their stores.

I'm not the type to play roles which win Academy Awards. I can't see myself in a big historical picture or in a difficult emotional role.
You have to forget all that silly nonsense you were taught in pictures. I mean about the importance of the star, the glamour stuff and all that. On a live TV show, everybody works together on the same level. You can learn more about acting in five minutes of television than you can during an entire picture.

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