Allison Hayes

Allison Hayes

Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, she was in the class of 1948 at Calvin Coolidge High School. Hayes won the title of Miss District of Columbia. She went on to represent D.C. in the 1949 Miss America pageant. Although she did not win the competition, it provided her with the opportunity to work in local television before moving to Hollywood to work for Universal Pictures in 1954. Taking the name Allison Hayes, she played small roles in a handful of films at Universal for a couple of years. In 1955 she filed a lawsuit against the studio over injuries she sustained while filming her second picture, SIGN OF THE PAGAN. Universal released Hayes from her contract, and she was subsequently signed by Columbia Pictures. After appearing in a handful of Columbia films including COUNT THREE AND PRAY, MOHAWK, and WOLF DOG, Hayes was given in the lead role in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958). The film would eventually gain a cult following and become the performance for which she is best known. However, it did not escalate Hayes's career at the time. For several years she remained consistently employed in movies and on television (including an extended stint on the soap opera "General Hospital" and several appearances on her friend Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason" series). By the mid-1960s, though, Allison Hayes's career was all but over and she was beset by health problems. She would later admit that the pain of her illness led her to contemplate suicide, and that her symptoms were not taken seriously by doctors. After reading about metal poisoning in factory workers and recognizing the similarity of the symptoms described to her own, she hired a toxicologist to test a calcium supplement she'd been using for an extended time. The tests revealed that the pills contained an extreme amount of lead, and that Hayes was likely suffering from lead poisoning. She mounted a campaign to pressure the Food and Drug Administration into banning the supplement, but her condition deteriorated to the point of total incapacity. In 1976 she was diagnosed with leukemia, and began regular cancer treatment. Allison Hayes died February 26, 1977 at the UCSD Medical Center in La Jolla, California, just short of her 47th birthday. In a letter that arrived after her death, the FDA informed her of amendments being made to the laws governing the importation of nutritional supplements, largely as a result of her advocacy.

  • Title: Allison Hayes
  • Popularity: 8.424
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-03-06
  • Place of Birth: Charleston, West Virginia, USA
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Allison Hayes Movies

  • 1968
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    The Movie Orgy

    The Movie Orgy

    6.2 1968 HD

    Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and...

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  • 1957
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    The Unearthly

    The Unearthly

    3.6 1957 HD

    A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an...

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  • 1955
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    Double Jeopardy

    Double Jeopardy

    5.3 1955 HD

    Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When...

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  • 1957
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    The Undead

    The Undead

    4.4 1957 HD

    Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she...

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  • 1960
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    The Hypnotic Eye

    The Hypnotic Eye

    6 1960 HD

    A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of...

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  • 1957
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    Zombies of Mora Tau

    Zombies of Mora Tau

    5.518 1957 HD

    A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.

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  • 1958
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    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

    4.9 1958 HD

    When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge...

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  • 1963
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    The Crawling Hand

    The Crawling Hand

    2.9 1963 HD

    After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote...

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  • 1955
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    Count Three and Pray

    Count Three and Pray

    4.8 1955 HD

    A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

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  • 1956
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    The Steel Jungle

    The Steel Jungle

    5.3 1956 HD

    The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.

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  • 1954
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    Francis Joins the WACS

    Francis Joins the WACS

    5.8 1954 HD

    Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!

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  • 1955
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    The Purple Mask

    The Purple Mask

    5 1955 HD

    France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in...

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  • 1958
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    Hong Kong Confidential

    Hong Kong Confidential

    5.1 1958 HD

    An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.

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  • 1959
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    Pier 5, Havana

    Pier 5, Havana

    4.4 1959 HD

    A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting...

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  • 1959
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    Counterplot

    Counterplot

    4.7 1959 HD

    Man hides out in Puerto Rico from the police and his double-crossing attorney.

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  • 1957
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    The Disembodied

    The Disembodied

    4.4 1957 HD

    When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor's restless wife supplements her...

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  • 1956
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    Gunslinger

    Gunslinger

    4 1956 HD

    After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

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  • 1960
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    The High Powered Rifle

    The High Powered Rifle

    6 1960 HD

    A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.

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  • 1955
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    Chicago Syndicate

    Chicago Syndicate

    6.167 1955 HD

    An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job,...

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  • 1958
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    Lust to Kill

    Lust to Kill

    6 1958 HD

    A cowboy escapes from jail with the help of his girlfriend, and goes after the men he believes are responsible for his brother being shot down by...

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  • 1958
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    Wolf Dog

    Wolf Dog

    6.5 1958 HD

    A paroled convict tries to start life anew by moving with his family to a ranch, where his young son finds a puppy that is half wolf and half dog.

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  • 1954
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    Sign of the Pagan

    Sign of the Pagan

    5.2 1954 HD

    Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor...

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  • 1956
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    Mohawk

    Mohawk

    5.6 1956 HD

    An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian...

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  • 1963
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    Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

    Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

    5.786 1963 HD

    TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own...

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  • 1954
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    So This Is Paris

    So This Is Paris

    8.5 1954 HD

    Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.

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  • 1955
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    The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

    4 1955 HD

    A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...

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  • 1965
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    Tickle Me

    Tickle Me

    5.7 1965 HD

    A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1965
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    The F.B.I.

    The F.B.I.

    5.4 1965 HD

    The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the...

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  • 1964
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    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

    7.1 1964 HD

    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff...

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  • 1960
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    Surfside 6

    Surfside 6

    5 1960 HD

    Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1961
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    Ripcord

    Ripcord

    6.5 1961 HD

    Ripcord is an American syndicated television series that ran for 76 episodes from 1961 to 1963 about the exploits of a skydiving operation by the...

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  • 1961
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    Acapulco

    Acapulco

    5 1961 HD

    Acapulco is an American half-hour adventure series that aired on NBC in 1961. It is notable for providing Telly Savalas with his first regularly...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

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  • 1957
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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    6.2 1957 HD

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

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  • 1959
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    The Alaskans

    The Alaskans

    5.5 1959 HD

    The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features...

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  • 1958
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    Bat Masterson

    Bat Masterson

    6.3 1958 HD

    Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1957
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    Tombstone Territory

    Tombstone Territory

    6.3 1957 HD

    Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to...

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    6.125 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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  • 1959
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    Men into Space

    Men into Space

    7 1959 HD

    Men Into Space is an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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