Tammy Marihugh(1952-2020)

After leaving acting, Tammy became an exotic dancer and by the late 1970s she was a dancer in Las Vegas. She eventually married bodybuilder Rodney Larson, ten years younger than her, who turned out to be a violent and abusive husband. In March 1996, after a night of heavy drinking, Tamra, as she was known by then, arrived at home and shot her husband in the back. She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and in September 1997, was found guilty but given probation.

[From a 1958 article in Parade Magazine, replying to a Hollywood studio scout telling her parents that Tammy was "a potential gold mine."] I don't want to be a gold mine, I just want to be happy.