4th July 1957, Thursday
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:00 pm
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A chronological profile of the most influential artist of the latter half of the 20th century, Elvis Presley.
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As above, from the late, great, Brian Petersen's website...Private Presley wrote: ↑Fri Jul 15, 2022 11:00 amFor more info:
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LARAMIE, WYO. (UP) Promising Hollywood actress Judy Tyler and her husband, Gregory Lafayette, also a rising star, were killed Wednesday night in a two-car collision on U S Highway 30 north of here, it was disclosed Thursday.A third person, a passenger in the second car, was also killed. The crash occured just 10 min-utes before the national Fourth of July holiday accident count began at 5:50 p.m. Miss Tyler and her husband of four months were en route to their home in New York on a vacation marking her comple-tion of the picture "Jailhouse Rock" with Elvis Presley for Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios in Hollywood. Her body will be returned to her parents in Ridgefield, Conn. Saturday for burial. The dark-haired beauty was killed outright in the bloody crash--her body cut in two by the impact. Her husband died early Thursday in a Laramie, Wyo., hospital from a crushed chest. |
Don Jones, a passenger in the other car driven by Paul Reed, 33, Hanna, was nearly decapi-tated and died at the scene. Reed was reported in "fair" condition at the Laramie Hospital. A dog and cat in the Lafayette car also were killed in the col-lision, which welded the two cars together and ground the window glass into powder. Lafayette´s eastbound car crashed into the other vehicle when the young actor swerved in attempts to avoid another car pulling a trailer in front of the "Billy the Kid" tourist stand three miles north of Rock River. The Wyoming Patrol said papers on the body indicated that the Lafayette couple was en route to Hopewell Junction, N. Y. In Hollywood, MGM studios said Miss Tyler was about 24 and that her husband was about the same age. The couple was married last March 17 in Bal-moral, Fla. |
Miss Tyler had just finished the picture with Elvis Presley last week. Prior to that time, she starred in "Bob Girl Goes Calypso" for Bel-Air produc-tions. Both studios said the young actress had a "promising career." A New York Conover model, Miss Tyler also was prominent in television work in New York. |
CRASH VICTIMS. Actress Judy Tyler, 24, and her bridegroom of less than four months, TV actor Gregory Lafayette, also 24, were killed in two-car collision near Laramie, Wyo. They are shown in New York prior to their wedding.
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How Judy Tyler Felt About Elvis Presley Guest Column She Wrote for Aline Mosby Tells of Qualities That Others Lack One of the last things Judy Tyler did before leaving Hollywood on a trip which ended in death for the actress and her husband was write a guest column about being Elvis Presley´s leading lady in "Jailhouse Rock" for vacationing Aline Mosby. Here it is: By Judy Tyler, Written for United Press HOLLYWOOD - Elvis Presley made me cry - and I loved every moment of it. He was full of surprises. He also made me laugh, he made work seem like fun, difficult scenes seem easy. To say the least, he left me deeply impressed.
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