Faith Dormegue, actress discovered by Howard Hughes

Faith Dormegue's birthday was four days ago. She passed in 1999.





She was "discovered" by Howard Hughes when she was 18. She was signed to RKO.




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Faith with her family


Faith starred in the Sci-Fi classic, This Island Earth.



She was first cast as the lead in Vendetta, not the Alan Moore story, and then on several Sci-Fi and unique movies such as, It came From Beneath the Sea; This Island Earth; and the Atomic Man.

She was part Creole. Her family moved from Louisiana to California at age one. Howard Hughes bought her contract from Warner Bros. and signed her to RKO.

She starred alongside Robert Mitchum in Where Danger Lives.

History will show her most important movie was Man in the Shadow, also starring Orson Welles.

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