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Wende Wagner

Born
Dec 6, 1941 · Aged 55
Died
Feb 26, 1997
Place of birth
Connecticut, U.S.A.
Gender
Female
Movie credits
10
TV credits
4
Also known as (1)
  • Wendy Wagner

Biography

From Wikipedia. Born to a U.S. Navy commander and swimming and diving coach father (John H. Wagner) and a mother (Rudy Arnold Wagner) who was a champion skier, Wagner grew up on Coronado Island in California and lived in nearly all the Continental United States with her family's various naval postings.[citation needed] While living in Coronado, California, with her family, Billy Wilder, then filming Some Like It Hot, saw Wagner swimming and offered her a screen test. Her parents forbade it until she completed her senior year at Coronado High School. Some Like It Hot was filmed at the Hotel…