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Linda StirlingAmerican dancer, model and actress
Date of Birth: 11.10.1921
Country:  USA |
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Biography of Linda Stirling
Early Life and Acting CareerLinda Stirling, born Louise Schultz on October 11, 1921, in Long Beach, California, was an American dancer, model, and actress. She gained her first role as a model in the 1943 film "The Powers Girl" directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring George Murphy and Anne Shirley. Stirling made her television debut in 1944, playing the lead character in the series "The Tiger Woman" alongside Allan Lane. She also appeared in the western film "Zorro's Black Whip" directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and the film-noir "The Pretender" directed by W. Lee Wilder, starring Albert Dekker.
Television Career and Later Life
In addition to "The Tiger Woman," Stirling starred in the series "The Millionaire" with Marvin Miller and Paul Frees, as well as played the role of Betty in "The Public Defender" and Helen Blayne in "The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse." She married screenwriter Sloan Nibley in 1946 and mostly retired from acting a year later to focus on her family. However, Stirling occasionally appeared in various television series. Once her children grew up and she had finished her acting career, she enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and obtained a bachelor's degree in fine arts. She later earned a doctorate in English literature at the age of 50.
Teaching Career and Legacy
In the late 1960s, Stirling began her teaching career at Glendale College in California. She taught there from 1967 to 1990. Stirling also participated in a documentary film about Republic Pictures, a studio to which she dedicated much of her time as an actress, and for which her husband Nibley wrote many screenplays. Sloan Nibley passed away on April 3, 1990, and Linda Stirling died from cancer in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, in 1997 at the age of 75.
