Successful but unrecognized B actress?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lois Hamilton
jeffyoung1 — 15 years ago(December 08, 2010 10:47 PM)
I write, unrecognized, but that is a relative term. According to her biography in imdb, Lois Hamilton Knapp, nee, Aureno (or Aurino), was a very successful Ford Modeling Agency model with many magazine covers and commercials to her resume in the seventies. Still, a woman can be unrecognized.
Lois Hamilton transitioned successfully to a B actress in Hollywood. Don't misunderstand the term, B actress. Few actors can achieve and maintain A rated status. Some actors have been known to bounce from B to A, and conversely decline from A to B status. Whatever their destinies, time and age makes almost all A list actors slide genteely into B status before retirement or death.
Lois Hamilton was typical of a successful yet under the radar B list actress. Many actors achieve and maintain B status as a means of employment for years, sometimes as long as twenty years or more. The obituaries in the Los Angeles Times newspaper constantly print the obituary of some B list actor or actress who had a long career in Hollywood, lasting ten to twenty plus years, but were little known except to movie aficionados who might have recognized them from one movie or tv episode to another.
But atypical of Lois Hamilton was her depth of talent, art and sculpture, of which I have no information on her skill and success. She was known to be an avid aviatrix, which takes some daring and courage. So Lois Hamilton was a precursor to those late 20th and early 21st century actresses who combined both beauty, brains, femininity, sexuality, and strength.
This is why allegations of suspicion around her purported suicide are disturbing to read about. Supposedly the plastic bag around her head was not secured tightly enough to prevent breathing. The level of sleeping medication in her bloodstream was inufficient to kill her. So this was a suicide? It sounds like a botched murder with a faked suicide to cover it up. I have a hard time believing that a woman with her particular inner courage and daring would so easily give up on life at the young age of 56. Put this way, she was a foreigner in Brazil on some kind of extended visit. What motivation did the Brazilian law authorities have to investigate further an apparent suicide of a visiting American? Looks like a suicide, case closed. Then again, it could have been well a genuine suicide. We'll never know.
I myself did not know about Lois Hamilton until December 8, 2010 when I re-watched an old 1984 made-for-television movie, INVITATION TO HELL, in which Lois Hamilton has only a very minor role as a secretary. By the date of the 1984 movie, she is 42 years old already, but still looks like a hot secretary. The advent of the Internet has allowed average citizens like me to know more about past actors and actresses or other celebrities of which information was scant or impossible to find. -
kaliphornia_dreemin — 10 years ago(June 07, 2015 04:55 PM)
Now maybe you didn't read the part about her being in a really bad car accident 7 months prior to her death. Many broken bones, including her jaw and vertebrae. She may have been in such terrible pain that she couldn't take it anymore. Jus5b4t a thought.