Born 1928 as Elizabeth Margaret von Gerkan in Hollywood, California, American actress Kathleen Hughes was discovered in a Little Theater production in 1948. Signed to a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox, she made 14 films for the studio, and appeared in five motion pictures for Universal Studios, including the cult film It Came From Outer Space (1953).
By 1956, Hughes was appearing in television series. She played in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1957), Telephone Time (1956), The Bob Cummings Show (1958), The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, 77 Sunset Strip (1959), Hotel de Paree (1959), Tightrope (1959), General Electric Theater (1960–1962), The Tall Man (1961), Bachelor Father (1962), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1965), and I Dream of Jeannie (1967).
In 1962, Hughes played the role of murder victim Lita Krail in the sixth-season 1962 episode of Perry Mason, entitled “The Case of the Double-Entry Mind”. She played the recurring role of Mrs. Coburn on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. She appeared on M*A*S*H as Lorraine Blake, wife of unit commander Henry Blake, in a home movie she sent to him. Hughes portrayed Mitch, a secretary, on the NBC drama Bracken’s World (1969–1971).
Take a look at these glamorous photos to see the beauty of young Kathleen Hughes in the 1950s.
Back in 2008 I was attending the Palm Springs Film Noir Festival and two of the stars attending that I got to meet and hang out with was Stanley Rubin and his wife Kathleen Hughes both were very gracious with Stanley telling funny stories about old Hollywood while Kathleen was fun to be around.
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