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Death of a starlet11/27/2023 ![]() Within three months of the wedding he began a very public affair with the actor Samantha Eggar, yet despite his serial infidelity they remained married, and moved to Britain, where their son, Nolan, was born. Hemmings, already a major star after Blow Up, characterised them as the “poor man’s Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton”, and although Hunnicutt “always thought that was silly”, her new husband seemed intent on replicating the conflict of the Taylor/Burton relationship. ![]() She described it as love at first sight, and they married in 1968. She caught notice in 1967 for her role as a woman trying to con Jed Clampett out of his fortune in a two-part episode of The Beverly Hillbillies on TV, and then playing opposite James Garner in the film Marlowe (1969) as the older sister, Mavis Wald, protecting secrets in a film based on Raymond Chandler’s novel The Little Sister.īy then she had met Hemmings, at a party at the actor Peter Lawford’s beach house. Rather than Hollywood’s typecasting of her as a beauty queen, she needed parts that played on a contrast between fragile beauty and steely character. But Hepburn also projected a certain vulnerability, whereas Hunnicutt seemed to carry her beauty naturally. Once asked whom she would most want to look like, Hunnicutt replied Audrey Hepburn, whose beauty, like hers, was often described as “porcelain” or even “cold”. ![]() Photograph: Bentley Archive/Popperfoto/Getty Images Gayle Hunnicutt with her first husband, the British actor David Hemmings, in 1969.
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