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Her father was the manager of a steel plant in Sandviken. Her mother"s name was Valdy.
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Ingrid Goude
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She became an actress in B-movie and sci-fi motion pictures of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her parents were Mr. and Mistress Edward K. Goude. As second runner-up in the 1956 Mission Universe, and 1st runner-up in Mission Europe contests, Goude signed a Universal Pictures film contract on July 25, 1956.
The studio also offered contracts to the 1956 Mission Universe, Carol Morris, and Marina Orschel of Germany, the 1st runner-up.
Universal picked up her option during Christmas 1956 and requested that she report back to the studio on January 8. The contract was paying $250 per week at the time.
lieutenant called for her to invest 20% of her earnings in government bonds. A superior court judge in Los Angeles waived this proviso.
He noted that Goude would turn twenty-one on May 26, 1958.
Also, he noted, the contract was signed thirteen months earlier, and she had lived within her means since then Universal started her at $150 weekly with a maturation salary of $800 a week. After eighteen months with Universal, Goude asked for and was granted, her release from her studio agreement in January 1958.
Neither Morris nor Orschel was successful in movies.
Goude earned a role as a secretary in The Big Beat (1958). The film is studded with musicians like Harry James and Fats Domino in its cast.
She played Beulah, a bride, in Once Upon A Horse (1958). The comedy was written by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and produced by Universal.
Goude trained for this part at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
There she learned to use boxing gloves under the supervision of Duke Llewellyn, athletic director In July 1957 Goude went to Denver, Colorado, to play hostess for Night Passage (1957), a motion picture starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy. Goude was cast with James Best in January 1959, in The Killer Shrews.
A production of the Hollywood Pictures Corporation, the sci-fi movie was filmed on location in Dallas, Texas.
Ken Curtis is a co-star in this cult movie, which was backed financially by Gordon and B.R. McClendon.
