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Actor Born: 1927 in Salt Lake City, UT Biography:"Dee Hartford" was a model turned actress who became the third wife of director "Howard Hawks". Born Donna Higgins in 1927, she was the older sister of "Eden Hartford", who married "Groucho Marx" in 1954. "Dee Hartford" initially achieved fame in the late '40s as a model for Vogue magazine -- a tall brunette with beautifully etched features, she could stop traffic or conversation in a room by entering it, and cut a startling figure in photographs. Hartford chalked up exactly one big-screen credit in her early career, with a role in the 1952 "Groucho Marx" vehicle A Girl in Every Port, directed by "Chester Erskine". She married Hawks -- who was more than 30 years her senior -- the following year, and did no acting during the six years that they were together. The two divorced in 1959, but the director gave her a small uncredited role in his 1965 film "Red Line 7000". She had already resumed her acting... Full Biography
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