Dee Hartford

Who is Dee Hartford?

Dee Hartford is a retired American television actress. She was married to Howard Hawks from 1953 to 1959. Her sister was actress Eden Hartford.

Born as Donna Higgins, Dee Hartford was a model and actress when she married director Howard Hawks. She initially achieved fame in the late '40s as a model for Vogue magazine. Hartford was cast in one big-screen credit in her early career, with a role in A Girl in Every Port, directed by Chester Erskine.

She married Hawks in 1953 and did no acting during the six years they were together. They divorced in 1959, though she had an uncredited role in his 1965 film Red Line 7000. In 1964-1965 she made three guest appearances on Perry Mason; as Leslie Ross in "The Case of the Accosted Accountant," as Lois Gray in "The Case of the Missing Button," and she played Rhonda Coleridge in "The Case of the Baffling Bug." In 1964, she also appeared in "The Bewitchin' Pool", the last original broadcast episode of The Twilight Zone. Hartford also guest starred in Gunsmoke, Burke's Law, The Outer Limits, Batman, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants and Lost in Space.