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  1. Actress: Prisoners in Petticoats. American actress, primarily on the stage, who played a few small roles in films. Born Ellanora Robinson Needles Jr. into a renowned circus family, she attended the Pasadena Community Playhouse as an acting student.

    • January 1, 1
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
    • January 1, 1
    • Beverly Hills, California, USA
  2. Feb 10, 2002 · American actress, primarily on the stage, who played a few small roles in films. Born Ellanora Needles into a renowned circus family, she attended the Pasadena Community Playhouse as an acting student. While there, she married actor George Reeves in 1940.

  3. While studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, Reeves met his future wife, Ellanora Needles, great-great-granddaughter of John Robinson, who had been a circus magnate and founder of the John Robinson Circus. [15]

  4. Ellanora Needles. Actress: Prisoners in Petticoats. American actress, primarily on the stage, who played a few small roles in films. Born Ellanora Robinson Needles Jr. into a renowned circus family, she attended the Pasadena Community Playhouse as an acting student.

    • September 1, 1918
    • February 7, 2002
    • He Grew Up Thinking He Was Italian
    • His Mother Told Him An Outrageous Lie
    • He Made A Mind-Blowing Discovery
    • He Signed Up For Acting Lessons, But Got Something Better
    • He Courted A Legend on screen
    • Studios Changed His Name
    • He Had An Unusual Acting Skill
    • His Wife Had A Wandering Eye
    • He Got Dumped For A Selfish Reason
    • He Found A Wife to Replace His Wife

    George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Iowa in 1914—five months into his parents' marriage. His dad left the family shortly after and his mother moved with her infant son to California. There she remarried Frank Bessolo, who took young Reeves in and treated him as his own son. In fact, the boy had no idea that Italian Bessolo wasn’t his rea...

    Reeves came home from visiting relatives one day and he couldn’t help but notice that his father wasn’t around. Eventually, Reeves’ mother broke the devastating news:Bessolo had taken his own life. Of course, the boy was distraught, but what he didn't realize was, his mom was hiding a cruel secret. She was lying: They'd simply gotten a divorce. Ree...

    Teenage Reeves and his mother were cleaning up the attic one day when he found a photograph of a handsome young guy. He asked his mother about it and before she could think to lie, she revealed the truth: The man in the photo was his biological father. Oops. It was “can of worms” time and Reeves found out three things: That he didn’t know his real ...

    Once he finished high school, George Reeves enrolled in acting class. While studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, he met and married classmate Ellanora Needles, who came from a family involved in the circus. While his real-life marriage flew under Hollywood’s radar, his on-screen dating was nothing less than epic. Wikipedia

    Reeves was lucky enough to appear in the first scene of Gone With the Windas a suitor of none other than Scarlett O’Hara, but he wasn’t George Reeves yet; he was still going by his stepfather’s name, Bessolo. Reeves played Stuart Tarleton, one of two twins who pursued O'Hara's hand. You could be forgiven if you didn't recognize him, though: Warner ...

    After appearing in Gone With The Wind, Reeves signed on with Warner Brothers, who changed his name from George Bessolo to George Reeves. Luckily they hadn’t finished the credits for Gone With the Windyet and his name got switched in time. With the name change, the actor was now on his way to stardom—a path that accelerated when producers realized h...

    Reeves got offered a role for a strange reason. In his screen test for the Hopalong Cassidy series of films, Reeves and his scene partner were able to get through seven pages of script in one single take. So he got hired not necessarily for his talent, but instead for the money he’d save producers on doing numerous takes. Because of this skill, he ...

    Back then, working as an actor actually usually didn’t pay that well, so times were often tough for Reeves and his wife. Even though they had a good marriage, Needles couldn’t help but look longingly at men who could make more money. The cracks started to show, and then when Reeves lost their cash on an investment, his wife had finally had enough—a...

    Needles took a long look at her husband and saw that Reeves was not only a poor earner, but also not great at investing the little money they did have. The future for the couple looked pretty grim. Needles wasn’t proud of it, but she left him for a richer fella who swept her off her feet. Reeves' response was heartbreaking. He couldn’t get over her...

    Reeves was hopelessly low on money and facing being a single man for the first time in years. It was at this tragic time in his life that he met Toni Lanier. Lanier was an ex-showgirl and eight years older than Reeves. She’d improved her lot in life by marrying MGM’s general manager Eddie Mannix. It seemed that Lanier was looking for a romantic pla...

  5. Discover life events, stories and photos about Ellanora Robinson Needles (1918–2002) of Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.

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