Marianne Gaba(1939-2016)
- Actress
Cute and sexy blonde Marianne Gaba was born Mary Ann Gaba on November
13, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father Frank Gaba was a mailman while her mother Marie was a factory worker. Gaba was crowned Miss Illinois in a
local beauty pageant in 1957 and was one of fifteen finalists in the
Miss Universe contest held in Long Beach, California in July of that
same year. Marianne attended USC for two years and wrote a gossip
column for "TV and Movie Screen" magazine. She was the Playmate of the
Month in the September, 1959 issue of "Playboy." Gaba went on to act in
a handful of films and television shows in the wake of her Playmate
stint. She married Michael Eugene Starkman on June 11, 1960 in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Moreover, Marianne was the mother of two children: She
gave birth to son Gregory on April 29, 1962 while her daughter Wendy
was born on March 27, 1966.
