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Barbara Bayton is an American actress who was born in Cloquette, Minnesota, USA on November 16, 1927 as Barbara Lee Redfield and died in San Diego, California, USA on May 8, 1967 of liver failure and heart failure. Barbara Payton was married to five men and had one child. Her most important works include The Great Jesse James Raid 1953, Bride of the Gorilla 1951, Dallas 1950, and Four Sided Triangle 1953. Her many lovers caused her addiction to alcohol and drugs, and her life became the subject of many books. Barbara was born to Norwegian and German parents, her father a construction worker and her mother a housewife, and she has a younger brother. She studied at Odessa High School in Texas, and she ran away with her classmate and married him, but her parents rushed to annul the marriage, so she married fighter pilot John Payton, and she traveled with him to California, where her husband enrolled in the university, and she expressed her desire to occupy her time in fashion shows, so she worked in sports fashion shows, Until she moved to Hollywood, and worked in advertisements for car and clothing catalogs, and gave birth to her only son in 1947, and succeeded in combining the responsibilities of a mother and wife and working as a model, but the tension of her marriage and the separation, she signed a contract with Universal for $ 100 / week and presented the movie Trapped 1949 in front of Lloyd Bridges, and her earnings rose to $5,000/week with Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950 with James Cagney, Dallas 1950 with Gary Cooper, Only the Valiant 1951 with Gregory Peck, and Drums in the Deep South 1951 opposite James Craig. She continued her practice of taking alcohol and sleeping pills that led her to take drugs, and increased her suffering by losing custody of her only son, and the film industry took her out of her accounts completely, when she boasted about her relationship with the black actor Woody Stroudy, and she was arrested several times from massive depression, mental illness and tragic addiction to alcohol and drugs She spent her last days at the home of her parents who were also addicted to drink, drinking with them until she died of heart failure, at the age of 39.
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