Judy Tyler

At age 17, she landed the part of Princess Summerfall Winterspring on the The Howdy Doody Show (1947) children's TV show, where she stayed for two years before resigning.

Won the national beauty title of "Miss Stardust" in 1948.

Her father was a trumpeter with bands such as Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman, and her mother was a former Ziegfeld Follies dancer. Judy studied ballet, music, and acting, won a "Miss Stardust" beauty contest in 1949, danced with the Copacabana chorus line. and was making bit appearances on television while still in high school.

She moved in 1950 and worked as a singer/chorine at the Copacabana night club. There she met Colin Romoff, the pianist at the Copa, who became her vocal coach. They married two months later.

Appeared on the cover of Life magazine while performing on Broadway in the 1955 musical "Pipe Dream." She earned a Tony nomination in 1956 for her performance but lost out to Lotte Lenya in "The Threepenny Opera."

She returned to stage work and was "rediscovered" in a play in 1956, "Pipe Dream", which landed her on the cover of "Life" magazine.

It is said Elvis Presley became infatuated with Judy Tyler while filming Jailhouse Rock (1957), and that he was so upset by her death that he could not bear to watch the film.

First husband was Colin Romoff, musical conductor for Andy Williams' TV show in the early 1960s. They divorced in 1956.