Jill St. John (born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim; August 19, 1940) is an American former actress. She may be best known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl of the 007 franchise, in Diamonds Are Forever. Additional performances in film include Holiday for Lovers, The Lost World, Tender Is the Night, Come Blow Your Horn, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Who’s Minding the Store?, Honeymoon Hotel, The Liquidator, The Oscar, Tony Rome, Sitting Target and The Concrete Jungle.
On television, St. John has appeared in such top rated shows as Batman, The Big Valley, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hart to Hart, Vega$, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I. and Seinfeld. During her Hollywood heyday she was almost equally famous for her high-profile social life and frequent romantic associations with prominent public figures. St. John is married to actor Robert Wagner and has known him since she was 18 years old. They share credits on nearly a dozen screen and stage productions, notably the miniseries remake of Around the World in 80 Days.
Jill St. John Wiki, Biography
St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Edward Oppenheim, a prosperous restaurant owner,[2] and his wife Betty (née Goldberg),[3] who became her stage mother. She has no siblings.
As a young girl, St. John was a member of the Children’s Ballet Company with Natalie Wood and Stefanie Powers. All three would later marry or co-star with actor Robert Wagner. Her mother Betty changed Jill’s last name to St. John during her adolescence.[2]
Child actress
St. John began acting on radio at age six. In December 1949, at age nine, she made her screen debut in The Christmas Carol, the first full-length TV movie. Also that year, she joined the cast of Sandy Dreams, a TV show for children featuring Richard Beymer.
At age 11, she appeared in two episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. She had a small role in the film Thunder in the East (1951) and was in episodes of Sky King, Fireside Theatre, and Cavalcade of America.
She attended Powers Professional School and received her high school diploma from Hollywood Professional School in the spring of 1955 at age 14.[2] At age 15, St. John enrolled at UCLA’s Extension School.
During this time, she appeared on a large number of radio shows, notably One Man’s Family.[4]
Universal
St. John was 16 in May 1957 when Universal Pictures signed her to a contract for seven years starting at $200 a week.[5] Her major studio film debut was in Summer Love (1958) starring John Saxon. She also appeared on TV in episodes of The Christophers, Schlitz Playhouse, and The DuPont Show of the Month (an adaptation of Junior Miss). She said her idol was Kay Kendall.[6]
Other activities
In 1972, St. John largely left Hollywood behind and moved to Aspen, Colorado, where she focused on personal interests and cooking.
Her interest in cooking eventually led to her becoming a culinary personality, appearing in monthly cooking segments on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America and her writing a column in USA Weekend magazine through the 1980s. This culminated in authoring The Jill St. John Cookbook (1987), a collection of healthy recipes and some anecdotes.[14]
St. John also developed a handmade Angora sweater business, and became interested in orchid growing, skiing, hiking, river rafting, camping, and gardening. In 1987, she said “I’m a mountain gal now. I love the outdoors and I love harvesting and using fresh vegetables and herbs.”[14]
St. John is founder of the Aunts Club, a Rancho Mirage-based group of women who contribute at least $1,000 per year to provide financial support for a child.
Personal life
St. John has been married four times. Her husbands:
- Neil Dubin (May 12, 1957 – July 3, 1958; divorced) St. John was 16 years old when they eloped to Yuma, Arizona.[a] Dubin was heir to a linen fortune. St. John complained that he harassed and ridiculed her.[18]
- Lance Reventlow (March 24, 1960 – October 30, 1963; divorced) Reventlow was the son of Barbara Hutton, heir to the F. W. Woolworth fortune. St. John received a settlement of $86,000.[19] Despite their divorce and subsequent remarriages, she refers to Reventlow as “my late husband” in interviews.[20]
- Jack Jones (October 14, 1967 – February 28, 1969; divorced) Jones said demands on his singing career and the involved traveling contributed to the breakup.[2]
- Robert Wagner (May 26, 1990 – present) The couple first met in 1959 when they were contract players at 20th Century Fox, and have been together since Valentine’s Day[21] 1982.
Between marriages, St. John dated entertainment, sports, and political personalities including Ben Barnes, Gianni Bulgari, Sammy Cahn, Michael Caine, Oleg Cassini, Barry Coe, Sean Connery, Ahmet Ertegun, Robert Evans, Glenn Ford, David Frost, Jack Haley Jr., Bill Hudson, Henry Kissinger, Sidney Korshak, Sandy Koufax, Peter Lawford, George Lazenby, Jim Lonborg, Trini López, Tom Mankiewicz, George Montgomery, Jack Nicholson, Hugh O’Brian, Ogden Mills Phipps, Roman Polanski, Alejandro Rey, Tom Selleck, Frank Sinatra, U Thant, Robert Vaughn, Giovanni Volpi, Adam West and David L. Wolper.[22] St. John has also had amorous relationships with criminal court judge Jerome M. Becker, ski instructor Ricky Head, Olympic ski champion Brownie Barnes, plastic surgeon Steven Zax, investment broker Lenny Ross, Chicago businessman Delbert W. Coleman and Brazilian entrepreneur Francisco “Baby” Pignatari.[23] She was engaged to Miami real estate developer Robert Blum in 1974, but called off the engagement.[2]
She has three stepdaughters:
In July 2007, Wagner and St. John sold the Brentwood ranchette they had lived on since 1983, for a reported $14 million[24] and relocated to their vacation home in Aspen.[25] They retain a condo in L.A.[26]
Mutual animosity between St. John and her husband’s former sister-in-law, actress Lana Wood, dates back to 1971, when Sean Connery was simultaneously involved with both women during the filming of Diamonds Are Forever. The pair’s half-century feud has been highlighted by two well-documented public altercations: one in September 1999, when St. John refused to be photographed with Wood at a Bond girl reunion for Vanity Fair magazine,[27] and another in February 2016, when Wood crashed an event honoring St. John in Palm Springs and confronted Wagner over the reopened death case of her sister Natalie,[28] who mysteriously drowned in 1981 while yachting with Wagner off the coast of Santa Catalina Island.
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