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Jackie Loughery Dies: First Miss USA, Abbott and Costello Co-Star & Early Johnny Carson Sidekick Was 93
Jackie Loughery, the first Miss USA who segued to a career in film and television in the 1950s and '60s, died Friday in Los Angeles.
Following her news-making pageant win in 1952, Loughery had small or uncredited roles in several films and series before appearing as a beautiful alien in 1953’s Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. Loughery’s other credits include the 1955-56 Western series Judge Roy Bean, Wagon Train, Burke’s Law, Perry Mason, Bonanza, F Troop and, her final onscreen appearance, Marcus Welby, M.D. Born April 18, 1930, in Brooklyn, Loughery attended New York’s St. Francis Xavier Academy for Young Ladies before entering and winning the first Miss USA pageant in California.
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