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The Show Must Go On by The Real Tuesday Weld (Six Degrees Records) For more information visit: sixdegreesrecords.com Also check out The Real Tuesday Weld’s Official Site: tuesdayweld.com and Six Degrees Records: sixdegreesrecords.com

Music video by The Real Tuesday Weld performing Bathtime in Clerkenwell. (C) 2004 Stephen Coates

Music video by The Real Tuesday Weld performing Last Words. (C) 2008 Stephen Coates

A montage to the underrated and underappreciated actress, to the song “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore, which seems to fit Weld’s free-spirited and independant nature. Tuesday Weld (born Susan Kerr Weld in New York) was forced to become the family breadwinner at age 3 when her father died. She supported her mother, older brother, sister and herself by working as a child model. The pressures of this hectic life took its toll – she had too much too soon – she suffered a nervous breakdown at 10, had become an alcoholic by the following year, and attempted suicide at 13. Danny Kaye, who later costarred with her in “The Five Pennies” (1959), described her as “14 going on 27.” She rebelled against her mother’s control by having love affairs with older men. In 1956 she made her film debut in “Rock, Rock, Rock” a low-budget production that featured some of the 50s up and coming rock ‘n roll groups, and her singing voice was dubbed by Connie Francis. Weld attended Hollywood Professional School, and was her graduating class valedictorian. Tuesday continued to make memorable appearances in films and on television, including “Rally ‘Round The Flag, Boys!” (1956), “Because They’re Young” (1960), “Return To Peyton Place” (1961), in which she assumed the role of incest victim Selena Cross (originally played by Hope Lange), and “Wild In The Country” (opposite Lange and Elvis Presley) that same year. She costarred with Bob Hope in “I’ll Take Sweden” , Steve McQueen in “The Cinninnati Kid …

Music video by The Real Tuesday Weld performing Kix. (C) 2008 Stephen Coates