Judy Clark

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Judy Clark
Clark in The Kid Sister (1945)
Born	(1921-06-09)June 9, 1921
Died	December 27, 2002(2002-12-27) (aged 81)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1942–1962
Spouses	George Myers ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1950)​ William Jerome Otto ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1953)​ Ron Zalimas ​ (m. 1956⁠–⁠2002)​

Judy Clark (June 9, 1921 – December 27, 2002)^{[citation needed]} was an American film and television actress and singer. Clark adopted a brash and energetic singing style, similar to that of musical-comedy star Betty Hutton.

Clark was the daughter of Jack Kaufman, who was a vaudeville performer.^[1] She and comedian Jack Gilford were among the new faces in the stage show Meet the People; Universal Pictures signed both for the Gloria Jean musical Reckless Age (1944).^{[citation needed]}

Clark won the juvenile lead in the 1944 Benny Fields musical Minstrel Man, in which she delivered two songs in the Hutton manner. The role reflected Clark's own life, as a rising star in a theatrical family.^{[citation needed]} She continued to work in pictures through the mid-1940s, including the Joan Davis musical comedy Beautiful but Broke (1944), the Cinderella-styled comedy The Kid Sister (1945), the Freddie Stewart musical Junior Prom (1946), In Fast Company with The Bowery Boys (1946), and the Jean Porter musical Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947). Beginning in 1949, with fewer musicals being made, she worked in the action/adventure field, in two serials, Bruce Gentry and Desperadoes of the West. Altogether she appeared in more than two dozen films and several television productions.

Clark's work as a singer included performing with Jimmy McHugh's Hollywood Singing Stars.^[2] She also danced and sang in the stage musical Lend an Ear at the Las Palmas Theater.^[3]

Clark was diagnosed with anemia, resulting in pain in both ankles and thus forcing her to give up dancing.^{[citation needed]}

On October 1, 1949, Clark married businessman George Myers in Los Angeles.^[4] They were divorced on July 14, 1950.^[5] In 1953 she married William Jerome Otto, 24-year-old heir to a drug chain; the union was unsuccessful and she sued for divorce nine months later, asking to be repaid $625 that he had borrowed.^[6] In 1956 she met her future husband, Ron Zalimas, on the set of a Burns and Allen TV show. He was 15 years her junior,^[7] but they remained married until her death in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

• South of Santa Fe (1942)
• Chatterbox (1943)
• Swing Your Partner (1943)
• Beautiful But Broke (1944)
• Career Girl (1944)
• Hey, Rookie (1944)
• Minstrel Man (1944)
• Reckless Age (1944)
• Stars on Parade (1944)
• This Is the Life (1944)
• Night Club Girl (1945)
• Penthouse Rhythm (1945)
• The Kid Sister (1945)
• The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
• In Fast Company (1946)
• Junior Prom (1946)
• That's My Gal (1947)
• Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947)
• Bruce Gentry – Daredevil of the Skies (1949)
• Desperadoes of the West (1950)
• The Girl on the Bridge (1951)
• The Crooked Web (1955)
• House of Women (1962)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Judy Clark.

• Judy Clark at IMDb
• Interview with Mike Fitzgerald