Payton's first cousin, Richard Kuitu, remembers visits to the home of his uncle and aunt. A blue-eyed, peroxide blonde sexpot who had a lot going for her, her life eventually disintegrated, mostly by her own doing. What a sight. The little money I do accumulate to pay the rent comes from old residuals, poetry and favors to men. Terrible, in some cases, but when merged with Payton, something interesting happened. Baby Jane Hudson was treated nicer (and treated herself better) than Barbara. A blue-eyed, peroxide blonde sexpot who had a lot going for her, her life eventually disintegrated, mostly by her own doing.
Queasy? Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but hell hath no fury like legions of Hollywood men, many probably given the brush-off by young, beautiful Barbara, watching and enjoying the decline and decay of a woman. missteps. 5:00 AM PDT And then there’s the joke about Bob Hope.
Barbara's story has haunted me for years, and I imagine it always will. There was my picture on the front pages of every paper in the country.”“Today I live in a rat infested apartment with not a bean to my name and I drink too much Rose wine. The marriage seemingly amounted to nothing more than an act of impulsive teenage rebellion and Payton did not fight her parents' insistence that the marriage be annulled. There’s pain there. Thu, Sep 10 By various accounts, Payton's father was a hard-working but difficult man, emotionally closed off, slow-talking but quick-tempered. KCOPDT3 (189) On May 8, she died at her parents' home of heart and liver failure at the age of 39. "Payton died at 39. The Redfields often started drinking at mid-morning and continued long after midnight. Things started out well enough for Barbara Lee Redfield, born on November 26, 1927, in Cloquet, Minnesota. And they were as worshipful and as critical as the public and the writers and the lovers ever were. That’s one way of looking at this sleazy/sad alliance, a union of two hustlers making a fast buck, pushing forward in spite of their scummy shambling lives and, in the end, perpetually losing. The ultimate downfall. Barbara Payton was gracious enough to let Leo Guild into her apartment. Could she have turned it around? Barbara Payton spent the last several years of her life in a hell created by herself.
Barbara Payton Photo Gallery. Both of Payton's parents had long-standing problems with alcohol. Payton met a 23-year-old sport fishing operator, named Tony Provas, whom she married. Internally, though? Sure, I was scared before I went before the cameras, but it all worked out perfectly.”“I went out with every big male star in town.
This type of attention was valued, even encouraged, by her mother. Never made it to 40, that dreaded age for actresses. By the end of “I Am Not Ashamed,” no matter how sordid and check-cashing both Barbara and Guild were in exploiting her sorry state, one can only feel empathy. As she opined:“Well, I could do all sorts of things, and to do them right, and it might look like they would lead to fame and fortune but... down, down, I skidded with nothing to hold onto.
I asked John Payton, Barbara’s son, what he thought of this question. The union lasted three years, and Payton would lose custody of her son to her first husband, John Payton. The couple were married on February 10, 1945 and moved to Los Angeles, where John Payton enrolled at the University of Southern California under the Payton started a modeling career by hiring a photographer to take photos of her sporting fashionable outfits. She also took a great interest in cooking and went on to become a gourmet cook. She’s wearing short shorts and sopping weight. Weird, sexy, direct, and a little disgusting.