Abby Dalton

Born in Las Vegas (Nevada), on August 15, 1932, Marlene Wasden –her real name– began her journey within American International Pictures, the producer of Roger Corman , king of series B, which turned her into a of the protagonists of The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent and Rock All Night . 

Later, he made his way in the field of television. James Garner and Clint Eastwood had a fistfight over her in an episode of Maverick . She appeared in other successful titles, such as The Desperadoes , or Sugarfoot . She began to become popular embodying a military, protagonist of Hennesey , which had a huge impact in the United States, between 1959 and 1962.

After giving life to Calamity Jane in the feature film The Force of the Nobility , and many other titles, she was recruited in 1981 for Falcon Crest , which narrated the confrontation between the Giobertis and the Agrettis, two families of winegrowers. She played Julia, the daughter of the evil Angela Channing ( Jane Wyman ). Fiction was one of the great phenomena of the decade throughout the world. 

In 1960, Abby Dalton married Jack Smith, with whom she had three children. One of them, Kathleen Kinmont , also an actress, married Lorenzo Lamas , Dalton’s son in the vineyard series. After divorcing Smith in 1972, she was married to Joe Moudragon.

After six seasons of Falcon Crest , her character turned out to be a murderer, and the writers sent her to a convent, for which she became unemployed. Subsequently, she barely heard from Abby Dalton , despite the fact that she occasionally appeared in a series, such as Murder, She Wrote and Hotel . She retired in 2013 following the short Mrs. Sweeney .