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Judy began her show business
career on the "Howdy Doody" TV show, at the age of seventeen. She appeared
in the Rodgers and Hammerstein play,
Pipe Dream, before starring in her first film, Bop Girl Goes
Calypso. The same year, 1957, she began work on her second and final
film. She would play Peggy Van Alden, the young record promoter who takes
Vince Everett (Elvis) under her wing. Judy Tyler's sudden death in a car
accident came just as Jailhouse Rock was set to be released. Judy's
husband was also killed in the crash. Elvis' friends say that Elvis would
never watch the film after that.
Thanks to Anne Stinehart,
for the photo above, which is available on her
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