Sandra Spence ~ The Game Show Blonde

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Sandra Spence was a beautiful blonde who appeared on the game show Pantomime Quiz

She was born Sandra Jane Fowler on May 22, 1915 in Olympia, Washington. Her father, Ernest Fowler, was an oral surgeon. When she was a child her family moved to California. Sandra studied ballet and dreamed of becoming a dancer. At the age of sixteen she was named Miss San Diego. The beautiful blonde turned down a lucrative offer from producer Earl Carroll because she wanted to finish high school. On July 24, 1944 she married Irwin Spence, a Navy pilot, after a three week courtship. Their daughter Sandra Marie was born in April of 1946. A few months later she met a Hollywood talent scout who offered her a contract. She was chosen to be the timekeeper model on the TV game show Pantomime Quiz. The show became very popular and in 1948 she was voted the “Queen Of Television”. Sandra made her film debut in the 1948 comedy If You Knew Susie.

Then she landed small parts in the films Words And Music, Annie Get Your Gun, and There’s No Business Like Show Business. During the 1950s she appeared on The Abbott and Costello Show and Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson. In 1957 she was cast in the television series Whirlybirds. She left after the first season and opened an antique store in Los Angeles. Tragically in 1958 her husband Irwin died from a heart attack at the age of 36. Sandra married Harlan Meyer, her late husband’s half-brother, in 1960. The couple moved to Texas and had a son. She spent her free time gardening and teaching Sunday school. Sadly in the early 1970s she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. On February 13, 1974 she died from the disease at the age of forty-eight. Sandra was buried at
Midlothian Cemetery in
Midlothian, Texas.

With Mike Stokey and Hans Conried on Pantomime Quiz

Sandra Spence ~ The Game Show Blonde

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