1674) Nancy Root

Nancy Jane Root (1939 - 2020). American actress.
The Roots were a prestigious Los Angeles family, very active in the local scene, and Nancy was the grandniece of prominent republican politician and Nobel prize winner Elihu Root.
She took her first two years of college in Arizona. An accomplished horsewoman, she did some stunt riding for movie companies working in this area. She rode so convincingly and so prettily that she was encouraged to take a screen test, and eventually was accepted into 20th Century Fox’s new talent school.
However, she only appeared in few film between the end of the 50s and the beginning of the 60s, along actors such as Clark Gable, Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis.
Then in 1962, when Nancy was barely 23 years old, something happened that changed her life. Namely, in 1959 she was involved with a mobster who took part in a murder of another mobster, Jack Whalen. They were sentenced only in 1962, and Nancy was a key witness. As a consequence, she opted to marry and leave her carreer behind. She married Billy Ray Dyer, with whom she had three children.
At some point, Nancy divorced Dyer, moved to Arizona and took up jewelry making, taking inspiration from the natives' cultural heritage. 

 

- "While in Arizona, Nancy blossomed into a stunning green-eyed redhead with 35-23-33 measurements... She was nicknamed The redheaded Indian..." https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/nancy-root/ 

 

1673) Adele Lacy

Adele Lacy (born Adeline Charlotte Fergestad, 1910 – 1953). American film actress whose films all appeared during the Great Depression. Her name was sometimes spelled Adele Lacey.
Her paternal grandparents were born in Norway, and he mother's family was also of Norwegian stock.
At the age of 15 in 1926, Adele joined Gus Edwards' Juvenile Frolic dance troupe while they were performing in Hennipin. She left for Hollywood shortly after that and finished her public education at Hollywood High School in 1928.
After moving to Hollywood, Lacy appeared in eleven films, three credited movies and an additional eight un-credited.
Over her career, Lacy starred in musicals and westerns, and she was also a pinup girl and chorus girl. While in films, she worked with Tex Ritter, Hoot Gibson, and Eddie Cantor.
Her first husband was movie still photographer Madison S. Lacy. They divorced in 1935 and in 1937 she married againg, to director Walter Futter.
During World War II, Lacy had crossed the Atlantic Ocean to produce musicals in England with an amateur cast to entertain the troops.

 

- "Adeline was a vivacious red-haired child who had a knack for dancing and performing... Adele had natural red hair, hazel eyes, was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 114 pounds in her prime." https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/adele-lacy/

 

- "The red headed beauty danced in several Busby Berkeley musicals..." https://www.classicactresses.org/2023/04/adelelacy.html 

 

1672) Evelyn Daw

Evelyn Daw (born Evelyn Pearl Shuck; 1912 – 1970). American singer and actress.
Daw sang in operettas put on by local groups in Los Angeles, and a musician for one of the productions arranged for her to audition with director Victor Schertzinger. Her audition and screen test led to her appearance in the film Something to Sing About (1937), along with James Cagney. The contract proved to be short-lived when the studio went into receivership and Daw was turned away from the pay window with no salary. She co-starred in the musical Western Panamint's Bad Man (1938) for another studio, but that was the end of her film career.
In the 40s, Daw performed with the Palmerton Players at the Whalom Theater in Massachusetts, and sang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Schubert Brothers in New York City. Beginning in 1941, she toured with the J. J. Shubert Opera Co. for 11 years. After she moved to San Diego, she performed with the Old Globe Theatre there.
After Daw's performing career ended, she became a teacher of piano and voice in Covina, California.

 

- "Evelyn had auburn hair and a lyric soprano voice." https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/evelyn-daw/

 

1671) June Brewster

June Brewster (born Kathleen Anderson; 1913 – 1995). American film actress of the 1930s.
Her first fil was The Sport Parade (1932) and the last Thanks for the Memory (1938).
In 1936 she married leading Las Vegas casino owner Guy McAfee and since they were unable to concieve, June and Guy adopted a baby girl, Kathleen, in 1943.

 

- "Socially this attractive redhead is one of the most popular girls In the film colony." https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/june-brewster/

 

1670) Myrla Bratton

Myrla Bratton (1910 - 1987). American film actress.
She made her debut in the musical Roman Scandals (1933), and after two more films were she played the chorus girl, Myrla tried her luck in the low-budget western arena.
However, since westerns didn’t pay, she decided to return to dancing, with such films as Redheads on Parade (1935) and Collegiate (1935). Myrla’s last film was Anything Goes (1936), an adaptation of a Cole Porter musical with Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman.
After that, in the 40s she made appearances in the then nascent television industry and then worked as a secretary in San Francisco. 

 

- "As she was auburn haired, she found her way to the already legendary Redheads on Parade." https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/myrla-bratton/