Barbara Payton

Barbara Lee Payton was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and eventual battles with alcohol and drug addiction. Her life has been the subject of several books including Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye The Barbara Payton Story , by John ODowd, L.A. Despair A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times , by John Gilmore, and B Movie A Play in Two Acts , by Michael B. Druxman. In her brief life, she married four times.

Payton was born Barbara Lee Redfield in Cloquet, Minnesota. She was the daughter of Erwin Lee Redfield and Mabel Irene Todahl, the daughter of a Norwegian immigrants. A son, Frank Leslie III was born in 1931 and in 1938, the family moved to Odessa, Texas. With financial assistance from his sister, Paytons father was able to start his own business, a court of tourist cabins, Antlers Court, anticipating it would turn out to be a profitable enterprise in a city like Odessa, whose population was booming due to the oil business. By various accounts, Paytons father was a hardworking but difficult man, emotionally closed off, slow to express himself but quick to temper. His interaction with his children was minimal and childrearing responsibilities were left to his wife, Mabel, who occupied herself with her homemaking duties and keeping problems out of her husbands field of consciousness. Both of Paytons parents had longstanding problems with alcohol. Paytons first cousin, Richard Kuitu reme

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