Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Judy Tyler was an American actress and began acting as a teenager on Howdy Doody. She later landed a starring role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. Life did a story on rising Broadway talent with Tyler on the magazine's cover as one of the up-and-coming stars. Once in Hollywood, Tyler appeared in the film Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957), then starred opposite Elvis Presley as his love interest in Jailhouse Rock (1957). After completing filming of the Presley movie, she and her second husband, Gregory Lafayette, left Hollywood to return to their home in New York. While driving through Wyoming, they were involved in an automobile accident on U.S. Route 287 near Rock River. She was killed instantly, age 24, and her husband, died the following day, also age 24.

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