Trivia

Her popularity as sultry, dusky-voiced nightclub singer Edie Hart on the crime drama television series Peter Gunn (1958) inspired two music albums: "Lola Wants You" (1957) and "Dreamsville" (1959).

Inherited her singing talents from her parents, both evangelistic singers; started in films as an MGM singing extra, in El pirata (1948), Desfile de Pascua (1948) and La danza inconclusa (1947).

Had seven stepchildren, but never had any children of her own.

Attended and graduated from West High School in Akron, Ohio (1942), and was voted "Best Looking Girl".

After graduating from high school, she got a job as a receptionist at WAKR radio in Akron. She left there to get a job at Cleveland's WTAM, where she married announcer Warren Deem. After her divorce a few years later, she moved to Chicago to be a model and was discovered by a talent scout.

Lola Jean Albright passed away on March 23, 2017, four months away from what would have been her 93rd birthday on July 20.

After she appeared in her first major role, as Kirk Douglas' love interest in El triunfador (1949), she said she went home and cried after the screening. "I look so awful and act worse," she cried at the time. Hollywood and the public disagreed, and her low sultry voice made her a hot commodity in movies and television.

Won the "Best Actress" Award (Silver Bear) at the Berlin Film Festival for Lord Love a Duck (1966); there was a controversy because some members of the jury wanted to cite the three female leads of the movie (Albright, Tuesday Weld and Ruth Gordon), but other members felt that to give a "joint" award would diminish the award's significance. (For example, the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival went to the female "cast" of Volver (2006), rather than just to Penélope Cruz).

Married her third husband, pianist Bill Chadney, at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 20, 1961.