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I began a small collection of Pamela Sue Martin clippings when
I was around 10 years old and I first saw Pamela Sue Martin in the
film The Poseidon Adventure
and completely became smitten with her lovely face and those big
gray eyes. Over the next few years through the 70s and 80s I carefully
pasted any article or picture I could find in various magazine on
PSM into a small scrapbook. Now, I'm attempting to take what I have
in that little book and turn it into an on-line "scrapbook"
of sorts. A one stop shop of all things Pamela Sue Martin that I
have collected over the years.
Pamela Sue Martin, was born in Westport, Connecticut on January
5, 1953. While attending Staples High School in the early 70s a
friend suggested that Pamela leave her less paying job for a modeling
career in New York where she could earn up to $60 an hour. She began
appearing in print ads as well as television commercial before she
took a bold step and auditioned for a roll in Columbia Pictures
film called To Find a
Man. After a three month wait, she got notice that she won
the lead role. It was because of this film that Irwin Allen cast
Pamela in his film The Poseidon
Adventure. It wasn't long before Pamela began appearing
in other theatrical films, as well as made for TV movies.
She achieved stardom in the 1977 TV series The
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, playing Carolyn Keene's
teenage sleuth Nancy Drew. Quitting the series over creative difference,
Pamela began cultivating a sexier, more adult screen image in films
like The Lady in
Red. She spent much of the early 1980s in the role of Fallon
Carrington Colby in the prime-time TV serial Dynasty;
her character wound up being killed in a car crash, only to be revived
in the person of Emma Samms on the Dynasty spin-off The Colbys.
In 1984, Pamela Sue Martin both starred in and co-scripted the feature
film Torchlight
one of her last appearances on the big screen. She would appear
in several made-for-TV movies and mini-series in the late 80s and
early 90s. And made several guest appearances in the early 2000s
on several television talk-shows and series.
Three times married and divorce, Pamela has one son with her third
husband, Bruce Allen. In recent years she has been focusing on the
theater performing in the plays, "Private Eyes" and "Beau Jeste"
as well as directing several production with the Interplanetary
Theatre Group and Sun Valley Repertory Company in Idaho. Pamela
is involved with several environmental groups, including Greenpeace
and The Sierra Club. She is also the National Spokesperson for the
Wild Horse Sanctuary in Singletown, California and has campaigned
for the preservation of the Wild Mustang in America. She's involved
with PETA and Save the Whales as well as several human rights and
AIDS prevention organizations.
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