Pamela Blake

Pamela Blake (August 6, 1915 – October 6, 2009) was an American film actress who acted in almost 50 films. She is known primarily for her roles in Western films and serials.

Early years Blake was born in Oakland, California as Adele Pearce, and performed under that name until 1942. Following her mother's death when Blake was 3 years old, she went to live with an uncle and aunt,

She went to Hollywood at age 17 after she won a beauty contest. A major break came when she was cast as the second female lead in This Gun for Hire (1942).

In 1939 she starred in five films, one of which was a crime drama, one a mystery, and one a Western. In total she had roles in some 54 films, as well as a number of starring roles in certain television series. In 1946 she starred in Chick Carter, Detective. Toward the end of her career, she mostly played parts in Western genre films and television episodes, such as The Range Rider.

Waco (1952) was Blake's last feature film, and her last role was in the 1954 television pilot, The Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush, which was later released as a film. Her second marriage, in 1943, was to actor, television producer and writer Mike Stokey; it ended in divorce in 1948. She married John Canavan, an Air Force master sergeant, in 1983. Blake died of natural causes in a Las Vegas, Nevada care facility in 2009, at age 94.

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