Rita Allene Quigley (March 31, 1923
[ – August 25, 2008) was an American actress who later became Corporate Secretary, and the first woman on the board of directors, of the Petroleum Club of ]Los Angeles
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. She was the elder sister of Juanita Quigley
Juanita Quigley (24 June 1931 – 29 October 2017) was an American child actress in motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s. She had a sister, Rita Quigley, who was also a child actress.
Career
Juanita Quigley was billed as "Baby Jane" in several ...
, who was also an actress, beginning in films at the age of three in 1934.
Career
A visit to the commissary of Universal Pictures
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in 1939 led to Quigley's film career. She was seen by producer Joe Pasternak
Joseph Herman Pasternak (born József Paszternák; September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at MGM Studios, producing many successfu ...
as she ate lunch with her mother and her sister, and that contact resulted in a role for her in the Deanna Durbin
Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who moved to the USA with her family in infancy. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. With t ...
film ''First Love
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''.
Quigley made her film debut in 1940 in '' Susan and God'', and appeared in more than a dozen other movies, including ''Five Little Peppers in Trouble
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* ''5'' (visual novel), a 2008 visual novel by Ram
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,'' ''The Howards of Virginia
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'', ''Whispering Footsteps
''Whispering Footsteps'' is a 1943 American film noir crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring John Hubbard, Rita Quigley, and Joan Blair.
Premise
A bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare because he fits the description of a maniac k ...
'' and '' The Human Comedy''.
Personal life
Quigley was born in Bell, California
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and was married to Arthur Goehner.[ She left acting in the late 1940s to focus on raising her family.]
Death
Quigley died in Arroyo Grande, California.
Filmography
References
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1923 births
2008 deaths
American film actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
People from Bell, California
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women