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Allison Hayes
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Allison Hayes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1930-03-06,Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, she was in the class of 1948 at Calvin Coolidge High School. Hayes won the title of Miss District of Columbia. She went on to represent D.C. in the 1949 Miss America pageant. Although she did not win the competition, it provided her with the opportunity to work in local television before moving to Hollywood to work for Universal Pictures in 1954. Taking the name Allison Hayes, she played small roles in a handful of films at Universal for a couple of years. In 1955 she filed a lawsuit against the studio over injuries she sustained while filming her second picture, SIGN OF THE PAGAN. Universal released Hayes from her contract, and she was subsequently signed by Columbia Pictures. After appearing in a handful of Columbia films including COUNT THREE AND PRAY, MOHAWK, and WOLF DOG, Hayes was given in the lead role in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958). The film would eventually gain a cult following and become the performance for which she is best known. However, it did not escalate Hayes's career at the time. For several years she remained consistently employed in movies and on television (including an extended stint on the soap opera "General Hospital" and several appearances on her friend Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason" series). By the mid-1960s, though, Allison Hayes's career was all but over and she was beset by health problems. She would later admit that the pain of her illness led her to contemplate suicide, and that her symptoms were not taken seriously by doctors. After reading about metal poisoning in factory workers and recognizing the similarity of the symptoms described to her own, she hired a toxicologist to test a calcium supplement she'd been using for an extended time. The tests revealed that the pills contained an extreme amount of lead, and that Hayes was likely suffering from lead poisoning. She mounted a campaign to pressure the Food and Drug Administration into banning the supplement, but her condition deteriorated to the point of total incapacity. In 1976 she was diagnosed with leukemia, and began regular cancer treatment. Allison Hayes died February 26, 1977 at the UCSD Medical Center in La Jolla, California, just short of her 47th birthday. In a letter that arrived after her death, the FDA informed her of amendments being made to the laws governing the importation of nutritional supplements, largely as a result of her advocacy.

Filmography

6.8

The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01

4

The Unearthly
1957-06-28

Double Jeopardy

5.2

Double Jeopardy
1955-06-23

4.51

The Undead
1957-03-01

The Hypnotic Eye

5.8

The Hypnotic Eye
1960-02-17

Zombies of Mora Tau

5.5

Zombies of Mora Tau
1957-02-19

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

4.784

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
1958-05-18

The Crawling Hand

3.2

The Crawling Hand
1963-09-04

Count Three and Pray

4.7

Count Three and Pray
1955-10-01

The Steel Jungle

5.6

The Steel Jungle
1956-03-10

Francis Joins the WACS

6.1

Francis Joins the WACS
1954-07-30

The Purple Mask

5.8

The Purple Mask
1955-06-15

Hong Kong Confidential

5.9

Hong Kong Confidential
1958-10-01

5.1

Pier 5, Havana
1959-10-09

5.4

Counterplot
1959-10-01

The Disembodied

4.8

The Disembodied
1957-08-25

4.3

Gunslinger
1956-06-01

The High Powered Rifle

7.5

The High Powered Rifle
1960-09-01

Chicago Syndicate

6

Chicago Syndicate
1955-07-01

7.3

A Lust to Kill
1958-09-28

6.5

Wolf Dog
1958-07-01

Sign of the Pagan

6

Sign of the Pagan
1954-11-24

5.6

Mohawk
1956-04-01

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

6.1

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
1963-12-25

So This Is Paris

9

So This Is Paris
1954-12-15

4.6

The Prodigal
1955-05-06

6

Tickle Me
1965-06-30

77 Sunset Strip

7.2

77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10

5.6

The F.B.I.
1965-09-19

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

7.1

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964-09-25

6.3

Surfside 6
1960-10-06

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

6.5

Acapulco
1961-02-27

7.3

Rawhide
1959-01-09

The Millionaire

5.8

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.8

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957-07-01

6.7

The Alaskans
1959-10-04

6.4

Bat Masterson
1958-10-08

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

6.2

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05

Tombstone Territory

6.9

Tombstone Territory
1957-10-16

Four Star Playhouse

6.8

Four Star Playhouse
1952-09-25

7.4

Men Into Space
1959-09-30

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

7.7

Perry Mason
1957-09-21