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Vanessa Brown (March 24, 1928 – May 21,
1999) was an Austrian actor|actress who was
successful in United States|American cinema|film,
theater and television.

Born Smylla Brynd in Vienna, Austria to Jewish
parents, Brown and her family fled to Paris,
France in 1937 to escape persecution with the rise
of National Socialism. Within a few years the
family had settled in America and Brown auditioned
for Lillian Hellman for a role in Watch on the
Rhine.  Fluent in several languages, Brown
impressed Hellman with her presence and authentic
Teutonic accent, and she was signed as understudy
to Ann Blyth.  While still at high school she was
writing and directing plays for school productions
and when she entered a radio quiz titled "Quiz
Kid" she attracted the attention of Hollywood,
California|Hollywood film producer David O.
Selznick.  He brought her family to Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles and Brown made her film
debut in Youth Runs Wild (1944). She played a
series of ingenue roles over the next few years,
in films such as The Late George Apley (1947), The
Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) and The Heiress (1949),
and was then given the role of Jane in the Tarzan
film, Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) opposite
Lex Barker. 

After appearing in The Bad and the Beautiful
(1952), Brown's film career began to decline and
she moved to New York, where she secured the role
of "The Girl" in The Seven Year Itch opposite Tom
Ewell.  Despite her success in the role, she was
not asked to join Ewell for the 1955 film version,
and her role was played by Marilyn Monroe.   Her
career began to slow down after this, and she
concentrated on her marriage to television
director Mark Sandrich Jr. and raising their
children.  She appeared on such television series
as General Hospital, The Wonder Years and Murder,
She Wrote.

Her final years were beset with misfortune.  Her
marriage to Sandrich ended in divorce, she was
diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, and she lost
her home during an earthquake in 1989.  The
surgery she received for her cancer appeared to
have been successful, and she believed she had
been cured, however the disease returned.  The
last few years of her life were spent in very poor
health, before her death in Woodland Hills,
California.

Vanessa Brown has two stars on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame, for her contribution to motion pictures
at 1625 Vine Street, and for television at 6528
Hollywood Boulevard.

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