{{short description|American actress}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Collette Lyons | image = Press Photo of Collette Lyons 1944.jpg | image_size = | caption = Lyons in 1944 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|10|3}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1986|10|5|1908|10|3}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1937–1962 (TV & film) | spouse = {{plainlist| * Alan Dinehart Jr. * ({{abbr|m.|married}} 1942; {{abbr|annul.|annulled}} 1950)<br />{{marriage|George Randolph Hearst|1952|1958|end=divorced}} }} }}
'''Collette Lyons''' (October 3, 1908 – October 5, 1986) was an American stage, film and television actress.<ref>Marshall p.330</ref>
On December 26, 1942, Lyons married Alan Dinehart Jr. in Brooklyn,<ref>{{cite news |date=April 15, 1950 |title=Actress Collette Lyons Wins Annulment From Alan Dinehart |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77255797/collette-lyons/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509062011/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77255797/collette-lyons/ |archive-date=May 9, 2021 |access-date=May 8, 2021 |work=Oakland Tribune |location=California, Oakland |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> but that union was annulled in April 1950.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 29, 1952 |title=Hearst Sets Second Marriage Ceremony |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19520229&id=4cMdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4312,3919559&hl=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725125014/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19520229&id=4cMdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4312,3919559&hl=en |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |accessdate=26 September 2016 |work=The Victoria Advocate |page=2 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
Lyons married George Randolph Hearst on March 6, 1952, in Hollywood, California. The wedding was their second such ceremony, following an October 1951 nuptial in Mexico.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hearst's Son Weds Hollywood Actress|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19520307&id=Ym9gAAAAIBAJ&pg=4421,934588&hl=en|accessdate=26 September 2016|work=Star-News|date=March 7, 1952|location=North Carolina, Wilmington|page=16}}</ref> Lyons obtained a divorce from Hearst in Santa Monica, California, in 1958.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Milestones|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868541,00.html|accessdate=26 September 2016|magazine=Time|date=June 9, 1958|archive-date=September 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927132716/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868541,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1937|| ''Hotel Haywire'' || Genevieve Stern || |- |1937|| ''Dance Charlie Dance'' || Bobbie Benson || |- |1937|| ''Woman Against the World'' || Patsy || |- |1937|| ''52nd Street'' || Minnie || |- |1939|| ''Three Texas Steers'' || Lillian || |- |1945|| ''Frisco Sal'' || Mickey Finn || |- |1945|| ''Blonde Ransom'' || Sheila || |- |1945|| ''The Dolly Sisters'' || Flo Daly || Uncredited |- |1949|| ''Blondie's Big Deal'' || Norma Addison || |- |1949|| ''The Lone Wolf and His Lady'' || Marta Frisbie || |- |1950|| ''Wabash Avenue'' || Beulah || |- |1950|| ''When You're Smiling'' || Nan Doran || |- |1959|| ''The Rebel Set'' || Rita Leland || |- |1959|| ''The Rookie'' || Parsons || Uncredited |- |1961|| ''Return to Peyton Place'' || Mrs. Sarah Bingham || Uncredited |}
===Television=== {| class=wikitable ! width=4%|Year ! width=37%|Title ! width=18%|Role ! width=41%|Notes |- | 1955–1958 | ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' | Rowdy Kate | (Season 1/Episode 5)"Wyatt Earp Comes to Wichita"(Season 1/Episode 22)"The Bribe"(Season 4/Episode 15)"Little Brother" |- | 1958 | ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' | Kate Holliday | (Season 4/Episode 16) "The Reformation of Doc Holliday" |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Marshall, Wendy L. ''William Beaudine: From Silents to Television''. Scarecrow Press, 2005.
==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0529038}} *{{IBDB name|461817}}
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