Arline Judge was an American actress who worked mostly in low-budget B movies, but gained some fame for marrying and divorcing seven times.

Career

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...

, Judge was educated in a Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 convent and began her career as a dancer in an act for Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

. After meeting director Wesley Ruggles on a train, she got her start in films with his help, then married him. Nicknamed "One-Take Sally," her film career spanned the 1930s and 1940s. After that, she had a few television appearances, the last one in an episode of Perry Mason

Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

in 1964.

Personal life and death

Judge was married seven times and had two sons; Wesley Ruggles, Jr. with first husband Wesley Ruggles and Dan Topping, Jr.

Dan Topping, Jr.

Daniel Reid Topping, Jr. is a former executive with the New York Yankees.The son of New York Yankees owner Dan Topping and actress Arline Judge, Topping joined the Yankees organiaztion in 1961. In his first season, he worked on the grounds crew, in the ticket office, and in publicity...

 with second husband Dan Topping

Dan Topping

Daniel Reid Topping was a part owner and president of the New York Yankees baseball team from 1945 to 1964. Daniel Reid Topping was the son of Rhea Reid and Henry J. Topping. Rhea Reid, the daughter of Daniel G. Reid, known as the "Tinplate King" for his vast wealth in the tin industry, was the...

. Her other husbands include:

• James Ramage Addams (October 7, 1942 - July 24, 1945)
• Vincent Morgan Ryan (August 3, 1945 - April 23, 1947)
• Henry J. (Bob) Topping (April 29, 1947 - April 23, 1948)
• George Ross III (January 18, 1949 - August 10, 1950)
• Edward Cooper Heard (April 9, 1955 - November 2, 1960)

Judge is sometimes listed as being married to James M. Bryant, however both Judge and Bryant denied this claim. Judge died in West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a population of 34,399 at the 2010 census. 41% of the city's population is made up of gay men according to a 2002 demographic analysis by Sara Kocher Consulting for the City of West Hollywood...

 on February 7, 1974.

She was laid to rest in St. Michael's Cemetery in Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643, making it the fourth largest city in the state and the eighth largest city in New England...

, which is a cemetery designated for people of the Roman Catholic faith.

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1931	Are These Our Children	Florence "Flo" Carnes
1932	Girl Crazy	Molly Gray
1933	Sensation Hunters	Jerry Royal
1934	When Strangers Meet	Ruth Crane
1935	George White's 1935 Scandals George White's 1935 Scandals George White's 1935 Scandals is an American musical film, written by Jack Yellen and produced in 1935 by Fox Film Corporation . It was a follow-up to the 1934 release, George White's Scandals.-Plot:The film centers on real-life stage and screen producer George White as he gathers acts for his new...	Midgie Malone
1936	Pigskin Parade Pigskin Parade (film) Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M...	Sally Saxon	Alternative title: Harmony Parade
1936	Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Valiant Is the Word for Carrie Valiant is the word for Carrie is a 1936 film starring Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges, Harry Carey, Isabel Jewell, and Hattie McDaniel. The movie was adapted by Claude Binyon from the novel of the same name by Barry Benefield...	Lady
1941	Harvard, Here I Come!	Francie Callahan	Alternative title: Here I Come
1942	Law of the Jungle	Nona Brooks
1943	Girls in Chains	Helen Martin
1944	Take It Big	Pert Martin
1945	G.I. Honeymoon	Flo LaVerne
1946	From This Day Forward	Margie Beesley
1947	The Sin of Harold Diddlebock The Sin of Harold Diddlebock The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is a 1947 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring the silent film comic icon Harold Lloyd, and featuring Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Arline Judge, Edgar Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn and Lionel Stander...	Manicurist	Alternative title: Mad Wednesday
1963	The Crawling Hand The Crawling Hand The Crawling Hand is a 1963 science fiction film directed by Herbert L. Strock, and starring Rod Lauren, Peter Breck, Allison Hayes, and Alan Hale, Jr...	Mrs. Hotchkiss	Alternative titles: Don't Cry Wolf The Creeping Hand
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1953	Mr. and Mrs. North	Dot Jansen	1 episode
1964	Perry Mason Perry Mason (TV series) Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...	Emmalou Schneider	1 episode

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