Tuesday Weld is an award-winning former actress and fashion model who got fame and fortune during the 1960s for her superb performances in several films and TV Shows. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.
Childhood and professional career
Weld was not blessed with a beautiful childhood and adulthood. Her father died during her childhood, and she took over the role of the family breadwinner. Weld became a successful child model, posing for advertisements and mail-order catalogs. At 12 years old, she made her acting debut on TV; that year, she also made her film debut in the 1956 crime drama ‘The False Man’ by Alfred Hitchcock. Pressures from her profession caused her to have a nervous breakdown at the age of nine, develop alcoholism at the age of twelve, and commit suicide.
Television career
Weld got the lead role in the 1956 drama film ‘Rock, Rock, Rock.’ She also starred the same year in a “Backwoods Cinderella” episode of Goodyear Playhouse. Fox managers were convinced of Weld’s success at Flag Boys, who signed a long-term contract with her. They put it in the CBS TV series’ ‘Dobie Gillis’s Many Loves, ‘ which was paid $35 thousand for a year. She was also a co-winner of the “Most Promised Newcomer’s Award” in the Golden Globe Awards for the famous CBS sitcom ‘Thalia Menninger.’ Weld worked in many favorite films and TV shows during the 1960s and has won several nominations. She has concentrated increasingly on made-for-TV films since the mid-’70s. In search of Mr. Goodbar (1977), Weld attracted attention as the favored, out-of-control Katherine in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), and a year later, she appeared in ‘ Who’ll Stop the Rain.’ Weld made her final appearance in the 2001 film ‘Chelsea Walls.’
Personal life
Weld has been married three times. She was married to screenwriter Claude Harz from 1965 until their divorce in 1971. They had a daughter, Natasha, in 1966. In 1975, she married British actor, musician, and comedian Dudley Moore 1975. The couple divorced four years later, and they had a son. Weld married Israeli concert violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman. The marriage lasted only three years and ended with a divorce. Weld also dated Elvis Presley, Al Pacino, David Steinberg, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Richard Gere, and many more.
Below are some glamorous photos of young Tuesday Weld from her professional career and early life.
#1 Tuesday Weld with Dennis Hopper and his friend, 1958.
#2 Tuesday Weld in a polka-dot, blue sleeveless dress, 1958.
#3 Tuesday Weld in Santa Monica Superior court for name change, 1959.
#4 Tuesday Weld, wearing a dark blue bikini as she reclines on a sofa, 1960.
#5 Tuesday Weld, whe she was only five, 1948.
#6 Seven-year-old Tuesday Weld, 1948.
#7 Tuesday Weld holding dog in rain gear in publicity portrait, 1948.
#8 Tuesday Weld, whe she was thirteen, 1955.
#9 Tuesday Weld in a blue, sleeveless top and a red and blue headband, as she sits in a deckchair, 1950s.
#10 Tuesday Weld attends the movie premiere of ” Say One for Me” in Los Angeles,1959.
#11 Tuesday Weld with wet clothes and hair, 1960.
#12 Tuesday Weld wearing a dark blue bikini as she kneels on the sands of a beach, 1960.
#13 Tuesday Weld (as Thalia Menninger), 1959.
#14 Tuesday Weld, 1962.
#15 Tuesday Weld, circa 1963.
#16 Tuesday Weld as she glaces over her shoulder on a beach, 1963.
#17 Tuesday Weld wearing a dark red blouse, holding a fawn suede stiletto shoe, 1965.
#18 Tuesday Weld wearing a white sleeveless top and a thick white headband, circa 1965.
#19 Tuesday Weld with Steve McQueen n a scene from the film ‘The Cincinnati Kid’, 1965.
#20 Tuesday Weld in publicity portrait for the film ‘The Cincinnati Kid’, 1965.
#21 Tuesday Weld and Jack Nicholson at a reception prior to the World Premiere of the film “A Safe Place”, 1971.
#22 Tuesday Weld, holding her longhaired cat and a suitcase, leaves home to start her career in Hollywood as her mum, 1955.
#23 Tuesday Weld with Danny Kaye as she pretends to play a trumpet during an event in Los Angeles, 1958.
#24 Tuesday Weld attends an event in Los Angeles, 1958.
#25 Tuesday Weld in a knit top for the Leo McCarey-directed film ‘Rally Round The Flag, Boys!’ 1958.
#26 Tuesday Weld with Danny Kaye and Barbara Bel Geddes publicity portrait for the film ‘The Five Pennies’, 1959.
#27 Tuesday Weld with Danny Kaye, 1959.
#28 Tuesday Weld attend an event in Los Angeles, 1959.
#29 Actress Tuesday Weld attends her movie premiere of “The Five Pennies” in Los Angeles, 1959.
#30 Actress Tuesday Weld poses with a bouquet of flowers during her movie premiere of “The Five Pennies”, 1959.
#31 Tuesday Weld portrait session in 1959
#32 Tuesday Weld in “The Five Pennies” 1959
#33 Tuesday Weld emerging, fully-clothed from a swimming pool, 1960.
#34 Tuesday Weld, circa 1960.
#35 Tuesday Weld smiling and wearing a blue button-down shirt, 1960.
#36 Tuesday Weld with Tab Hunter in backstage of a TV show in 1959.
#37 Tuesday Weld with Dwayne Hickman, 1959.
#38 Tuesday Weld appears as Thalia Menninger in the CBS Television program, 1959.
#39 Tuesday Weld appears as Thalia Menninger in the CBS Television program, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. 1959.
#40 Tuesday Weld, 1959.
#41 Tuesday Weld with Michael Callan in ‘Because You’re Mine’, 1960.
#42 Tuesday Weld looks to a man in a scene from the film ‘Because They’re Young’, 1960.
#43 Tuesday Weld as the flirty, unattainable, Thalia Menninger ,1960.
#44 Tuesday Weld with Steve Franken, 1960.
#45 Tuesday Weld, 1963.
#46 Tuesday Weld as she poses in a swimsuit on a beach, Los Angeles, 1963.
#47 Tuesday Weld smiling, wearing a pink top, 1960s.
#48 Tuesday Weld, wearing a khaki vest, posing beside a white dog, 1965.
#49 Tuesday Weld, 1965.
#50 Tuesday Weld wearing a paisley shirt, 1965.
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this is not Tuesday Weld
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No, it is Carol Lynley.
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That photo is of actress/model Carol Linley.
