In his book about his lifelong love affair with Marilyn Monroe, "Norma Jean [My Secret Life with Marilyn Monroe,"] he claims she had an abortion when she discovered she was pregnant with his child in the 1940s.
When Gunsmoke (1955) went to color in 1966, a new opening was
filmed. Jordan was the bad guy in black" at the end of the street whom
Marshal Matt Dillon shot every week.
Born and raised in Circleville, OH, the home town of his uncle, bandleader Ted Lewis (Theodore Freidman).