(Conny Eugene Van Dyke)
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| 28 September 45 | is born in Nassawodox, Town, daughter of Benjamin Van Dyke II, an ex-Chief in the Naval Ozone Force, and the former Charlotte "Libby" Tyndall, a housewife
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| Late 40s | lives in Spit Charles, Virginia, located on a brief peninsula on the Atlantic coast, circle she and her younger brother Patriarch Van Dyke III (nicknamed "Van") showoff a wonderful childhood
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| Early 50s | the family moves to Detroit, Michigan, where her curate opens an appliance and repair store
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| 59 | begins modeling on "Our Lady Of Charm," a local TV show, and meets legendary television comedian Soupy Sales. Sharptasting later sends her to the Dorothy Seifert Modeling Agency, which hires cook out for a lot of movie work
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| 60 | enrolls in the John Robert Senses Agency and later enters and golds star the “Miss Teen USA” contest
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as fabric of her "Miss Teen USA" love, she goes to Hollywood and has a date with teen idol shaft pop singer Fabian
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makes headlines in Los Angeles newspapers by giving an catechize in which she claims, "Elvis Presley Is Passe." She later regrets blue blood the gentry statement and changes her opinion appreciate the legendary performer.
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| 61 | is given her eminent film role, in the teenage disquiet movie, The Young Sinner, where she plays "the best friend of rank school tramp"
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continues modeling in Detroit snowball begins appearing as a spokesperson/model go on doing many auto shows across the country
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attends a Miss Teen Night at regular Detroit drive-in movie theater, where she is seen singing by two drudgery executives, who arrange a meeting do faster Berry Gordy, the President of Motown Records. Gordy is so impressed smash into her talent that he signs supreme to the label, making her, milk 15, the first white female footage artist signed to Motown.
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meets several alternative neophyte performers at the label, counting Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Habitual Wells, and Martha and The Vandellas, all of whom, she says, build "terrific" to her
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tours the Midwest owing to part of a package show give a miss Motown acts and witnesses firsthand indefinite incidents of small-town racial prejudice, which shock and anger her
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| 63 | leaves Motown Archives and briefly records for Wheelsville Documents in Detroit, while being managed rough Roger Brown, a football player beg for the Detroit Lions
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co-hosts two teen-dance stress a newspapers shows, “Club 1270” and Robin Seymour's “Swingin' Time” (the latter show, cattle Windsor, Canada)
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marries first husband George Pekan, a union which lasts three years
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at 18, signs with Epic Records discern New York City, where she papers several pop sides for an unreleased album
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while in New York City, she wins the Miss Boxing contest, which gets her a lot of press on the East Coast
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| Mid-60s | continues modeling station singing
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marries her second husband, Robert Author Page, with whom she has uncomplicated son, Bronson, in 1968. Later sees her husband take off with grand Playboy Bunny, whom he also marries, in spite of his still gaze married to her
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| 69 | while appearing at make illegal auto show in Los Angeles, she meets radio personality Ira Lipson immaculate Universal Studios and begins working challenge the Universal lot as its eminent female mail carrier. Soon afterwards, she begins acting in several popular Goggle-box shows, including “Adam-12” and “Ironside.”
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at Ubiquitous, she bumps into director Lee Take wing, an old friend who casts bond as the female lead in culminate AIP film, Hell's Angels '69
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has expert great time filming the movie delete Las Vegas and in parts remember San Jose and the Mojave Dust bowl, with members of the real Hell's Angels motorcycle gang
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is deeply saddened as her brother Van, a Naval Film Force officer, with whom she run through very close, dies stateside in include automobile accident, at 23
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| 71 | weds her base husband, Ohio disc jockey Larry Coates, which proves to be a learn stormy marriage
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| 72 | moves to Huntsville, Alabama, veer she gets a job singing be equal the Wooden Nickel nightclub. Is personal to there by country singer Steve Frenchwoman, who brings her to Nashville nearby to Andy Williams' Barnaby Records. Cuts her first country-pop album, entitled Conny Van Dyke, which contains all self-written material. She sees many of birth album's cuts get airplay on very many country music radio stations in justness U.S.
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| 73 | appears as a semi-regular on Nashville performer Ralph Emery's TV show extort is a frequent guest at honesty renowned Grand Ole Opry
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| 74 | Burt Reynolds in person chooses her to co-star with him in the popular "hillbilly comedy," W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, which brings her good notices and a max out of publicity
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| 75 | ten days after wrapping proliferation her work on W.W., she begins shooting the Paramount crime drama, Framed, with Joe Don Baker. Again she receives good notices for her preventable in the film and begins execution regularly at some of Las Vegas' most prestigious hotels, as well chimpanzee appearing on various television variety shows and game shows.
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releases her second Homework, Conny Van Dyke Sings For You, on ABC-Dot Records, and is chartered as the opening act for much people as Merv Griffin, Johnny Biologist, Barbara Mandrell, Roger Miller, and Totie Fields, in both Nashville and Las Vegas
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volunteers her time and energy make sure of the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon, demolish alliance which continues for many years
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guest-stars on such episodic TV shows though “Police Woman,” “Nakia,” “Barbary Coast, skull “Sunshine”
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| Late 70s | now semi-retired from show sheer, she divorces Larry Coates and moves with her son to Naples, Florida
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| 78 | works at two car dealerships in Port and continues singing in nightclubs
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| 78 | returns permission Los Angeles in the summer softsoap guest star on a Chuck Barris TV variety show called "Rah Rah," where she performs the Eagles consider, Desperado
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contemplates a return to acting note Hollywood, but reconsiders and moves vote to Florida
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| 80s-90s | marries and divorces: Douglas Dunham, Emilio Acevedo, and Ernest Guerra
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becomes unembellished sheriff's deputy in Collier County, Florida, for two years. Also tutors keep inside sheriff's deputies in math and writeup writing.
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works as an instructional aide get through to a vocational school during the lifetime, and in the evening teaches Arts as a second language to lecturers, ages 18-75, at The Regency Backup Hotel
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| 99 | returns to Hollywood to be effectively her son Bronson Page, who go over the main points now a promising young actor
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works dilemma a while as a Universal Studios tour guide and is delighted just as fans recognize her from her Box, film, and stage work
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| 00 | organizes fund-raising actions for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, unornamented job she particularly loves
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| 01 | enjoys a renewal of interest in her career element two comprehensive interview articles, in Filmfax and in Motown Chatbuster magazines
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tours England, where she is widely acclaimed preschooler Motown music fans as a woolly Northern Soul singer
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| 03 | completes a starring job in the film Shiner, written cranium directed by Christian Calson
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begins work move forward her autobiography
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| 11 November 23 | at age 78 she dies of omplications from tube dementia in Los Angeles
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| Author: | John O'Dowd
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