Terry Huntingdon

Terry Lynn Huntingdon is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1959. She represented the United States at Miss Universe 1959, where as finished 2nd Runner-Up.

Huntingdon comes from a family of five-generation Californians.^[2] She attended Mt. Shasta High School, where she was a majorette^[3] and went from there to the University of California, Los Angeles,^[4] where she majored in dance.^[5]

One of Huntingdon's first beauty pageant titles was Miss Mount Shasta in 1954–1955.^[6]

After winning the Miss California USA crown, Huntingdon went on to become California's first representative to achieve the title of Miss USA.^[7] She was the first Miss USA to win the title at a pageant held in her home state.^[8]

She was second runner-up in the Miss Universe 1959 pageant.

Huntingdon made occasional television and film appearances. In her first television role in 1959 she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Kitty Wynne in "The Case of the Bartered Bikini." She was a contestant on the television quiz show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx, in 1960. She also appeared as Hecuba in the Three Stooges feature film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.

Huntingdon was involved in a paternity suit in 1963 when attorney Arthur Crowley denied being the father of her daughter, who was then a year old.^[9] In 1965, California's 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed the Superior Court's verdict, which went in Crowley's favor, and ordered a new trial.^[10] In 1966, the California Supreme Court reversed the verdict in which Crowley was absolved, and it ordered a new trial.^[11]

Después de dejar la actuación, Huntingdon trabajó en varios empleos, entre ellos como gerente de producción para una empresa de ropa femenina, modelo, trabajando en la oficina del senador estadounidense Alan Cranston , ^{[ 2 ]} y como fotógrafo para la Oficina de Oportunidades Económicas a principios de la década de 1970. ^{[ 2 ]}

En 1980, fue nombrada miembro del consejo de administración del Women's National Bank. ^{[ 12 ]}

El 19 de abril de 1975, ^{[ 13 ]} Huntingdon se casó con el ex senador estadounidense Joseph Tydings de Maryland, ^{[ 14 ]} con quien tuvo una hija, la actriz Alexandra Tydings . ^{[ 15 ]} Se divorciaron en 1988.

• "Chica californiana: Miss USA 1959"

• Sitio web oficial de Miss USA
• Sitio web oficial de Miss California
• Terry Huntingdon en IMDb