Terry Huntingdon
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born |
Terry Lynn Huntingdon May 8, 1940 Mount Shasta, California, United States |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Miss California USA 1959, Miss USA 1959 |
| Major competition(s) | Miss USA 1959 (Winner), Miss Universe 1959 (2nd runner-up) |
| Spouse | Joseph Tydings |
| Children | Paige Crowly, Alexandra Tydings |
Terry Lynn Huntingdon (born May 8, 1940) is an American beauty queen who won Miss USA 1959.
After winning the Miss California USA crown, Huntingdon went on to become California's first representative to achieve the title of "Miss USA." She is also the first Miss USA to win in her home state.
She was then second runner-up in the Miss Universe 1959 pageant.
Huntingdon made occasional television and film appearances. In her first television role in 1959 she appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Kitty Wynne in "The Case of the Bartered Bikini." She was a contestant on the television quiz show You Bet Your Life in 1960, hosted by Groucho Marx. She also appeared as Hecuba in the Three Stooges feature film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.
Huntingdon was involved in a notorious paternity suit in the early 60s. Bristol Courier, 4-17-63, p. 37: "Paternity Suit: Arthur Crowley and Terry Lynn Huntingdon. Attorney Denies He’s Child’s Father. Hollywood Attorney Arthur Crowley today testified he had been intimate with former beauty queen Terry Lynn Huntingdon, but denied at trial of her paternity suit that he was father of her year-old daughter. Crowley was called as an adverse witness in the first day of testimony in trail of the former Miss United States’ suit before a jury of eight women and four men. Miss Huntingdon, a beautiful brunette, took the witness stand yesterday afternoon. Her attorney attempted to place in evidence the birth certificates of her daughter, identifying her as Elizabeth Paige Crowley. Crowley objected to the identification, and attorneys agreed to a stipulation which only gave the birth date of the baby, without use of the name. Another legal wrangle occurred when Miss Huntingdon identified a picture as 'our daughter.' The statement was ordered stricken from the record. Miss Huntingdon will resume testimony today. Crowley was described in an opening statement by Attorney Sydney M. Williams as a 'mature, experienced, sophisticated, debonair and prominent Hollywood attorney,' while Williams called his client a '20-year-old impressionable girl.' Crowley and his partner, Horace A. Ruderman, both objected and Superior Judge Lloyd Nix sustained them. Opening Statement In his opening statement, Ruderman said he would prove Crowley was not father of Miss Huntingdon’s daughter, Elizabeth, and that the plaintiff had been sexually promiscuous. When called as a witness by Miss Huntingdon’s attorney, Crowley admitted his romance with her. But he said he had not continued being intimate with her during the time she became pregnant. He also denied he ever said he had a rare blood type. He said his blood group was type A, which he estimated some 20 to 30 million persons have. Williams in his opening argument also claimed Miss Huntingdon, Miss United States in the 1959 Miss Universe Contest, was showered with attention by Crowley. He said Crowley told her she was 'the best thing that ever happened to him,' and that he thought more of her than any girl he had known. Crowley, 39, was a bachelor at the time that Miss Huntingdon asserted that he fathered her child." [1]
She bore another daughter on Dec. 15, 1972 (with husband Maryland Senator Joseph Tydings), the actress Alexandra Tydings.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Perry Mason | Kitty Wynne | |
| 1960 | The Untouchables | Flo Ingalls | |
Published works
- "California Girl: Miss USA 1959"
References
External links
- Miss USA official website
- Miss California official website
- Terry Huntingdon at the Internet Movie Database