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3 unusual facts about Gloria Talbott


Gloria Talbott

She guest starred in three episodes of Gunsmoke: "Home Surgery", "Cody's Code", and "The Cousin" as well as an episode of the Adventures of Superman, in which she played an heiress who works as a Daily Planet copy assistant.

Talbott's multiple television credits include the syndicated Adventures of Superman, The Range Rider and The Cisco Kid, the NBC western anthology series Frontier, and the syndicated western-themed crime drama, Sheriff of Cochise with John Bromfield.

Nancy Merki

In 1955, Merki's early life and struggle to defeat polio with the help of coach Cody was dramatized in an episode of the television anthology series Cavalcade of America entitled "A Time for Courage." The show starred Gloria Talbott as Merki and Hugh Beaumont as Jack Cody.


The Leech Woman

She quickly becomes enamored with her lawyer Neil Foster (Grant Williams), a man half her actual age, and kills his jealous fiancee Sally (Gloria Talbott), both to maintain her youthful appearance and to eliminate the competition.

The Son of Dr. Jekyll

Jack Pollexfen, the scriptwriter of this film, wrote and produced a further sequel in the same vein, The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll in 1957 starring Gloria Talbott.


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