Biographies: Paula Raymond - Actor

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An American model and actress, born in San Francisco, California, USA, on November 23, 1924, as Paula Ramona Wright. Paula Raymond married Floyd Leroy Patterson (1944-1946), and they had a child before their divorce. She is known for Devil's Doorway (1950), Hand of Death (1962), Hawaiian Eye (1959-1962), and King Richard and the Crusaders (1954). Paula was raised in San Francisco and moved with her mother to Los Angeles. She studied ballet, piano, and singing in her childhood. She made her movie debut in 1938 and graduated from Hollywood High School in 1942. Following her return to San Francisco, Raymond worked with two theater companies. After her divorce from Floyd Leroy Patterson, she returned to Hollywood and worked with Paramount Pictures. In 1950, she contracted with MGM, which helped her to start presenting her important cinematic works, and after the end of her contract, she left the field in 1955 and worked in several jobs, but she later returned to cinema and television in 1958. Paula Raymond passed away on December 31, 2003, in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, of respiratory illness.