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Elena Verdugo, Elena Verdugo (born April 20, 1925) is an American actress who began in films at the age of six in Cavalier of the West (1931). Her career in radio, television, and film spanned six decades.Verdugo made numerous film appearances through the 1940s, including several Universal horror films. While filming the Abbott and Costello comedy Little Giant (1946), she met and married screenwriter Charles R. Marion, who also wrote for the comedy teams radio show. The couple had one son, Richard Marion, who later became an actor/director. He died of a heart attack in 1999, aged 50. Her second husband was Charles Rosewall.Verdugo starred with Gene Autry and Stephen Dunne in the movie The Big Sombrero (1949).Verdugo had a flair for comedy, and she garnered much laughter and applause in the title role of the hit situation comedy Meet Millie on both radio and live television of the early 1950s. She co-starred in Thief of Damascus (1952) with Paul Henreid and John Sutton. She guest starred on The Bob Cummings Show (AKA Love That Bob) in a 1958 episode entitled Bob and the Ravishing Realtor, playing the part of the realtor. In 1963, she co-starred with Richard Egan and Roger Davis in the short-lived NBC half-hour Western dramatic series Redigo, actually the second season of Egans earlier hour-long Empire. The program was set on a New Mexico ranch during the early 1960s. Verdugo appeared as herself in 1963 on the NBC game showYour First Impression.From February to June 1964, Verdugo played Audrey, the widowed sister of Phil Silvers character of Harry Grafton, in Silvers unsuccessful CBS sitcom The New Phil Silvers Show. Joining Verdugo on the program were Sandy Descher as her daughter, Susan, and Ronnie Dapo as Andy, Audreys son.In the full 1964-1965 season, Verdugo played Lynn Hall, an employee of a complaint department at a fictitious Los Angeles department store in CBSs Many Happy Returns starring character actor John McGiver. Her costars were Elinor Donahue, earlier of Robert Youngs Father Knows Best, and Mark Goddard, also of Lost in Space and Johnny Ringo.Verdugo was twice nominated for an Emmy Award in her performances as office assistant Consuelo Lopez in Robert Youngs ABC series Marcus Welby, M.D.She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[edit] References^ She was born in 1925, not 1926, the year referenced in IMDb^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penquin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 598[edit] External linksElena Verdugo at the Internet Movie DatabaseElena Verdugo discusses the Internet in handwritten letter (5/2/2002)PersondataNameVerdugo, ElenaAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthApril 20, 1925Place of birthPaso Robles, California, U.S.Date of deathPlace of deathRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_VerdugoCategories: 1925 births | Living people | Actors from California | American film actors | American radio actors | American television actors | American people of 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