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| Inger on her 30th birthday in 1964. |
A Timeline of Inger's Birthdays
1934: Inger is born on Thursday, October 18th in Stockholm, Sweden.
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| Inger's entry in the Swedish Birth Index |
1953: Inger takes a quick trip back to Manhattan, Kansas, to visit friends on her 19th birthday before returning to New York City
1955: Inger films an episode of Crunch and Des entitled "Salt Water Daffy" in Bermuda. One week shy of her 21st birthday, she writes to a friend about her struggle to find age-appropriate parts:
When I am in the office I must be very mature and businesslike. Here I am twenty, and going to be twenty-one next week, but I have to behave like I'm twenty-eight...then I must dash home and transform myself into a sixteen-year-old (which is getting more complicated everyday) for a theatrical reading. Glamourous one minute and sans makeup, a youngster the next...I wish I could read for a part that suits me. I am not a teenager and I feel terribly uncomfortable when I have to read for teenage parts. For some reason I am not of the young leading type either. I'm what you might call in-between and it's a God-awful fix to be in.
1956: Two weeks before her 22nd birthday, Inger signs a one year contract with Paramount Pictures.
1957: Gossip columnists report that Inger receives a gift certificate for her 23rd birthday from Bing Crosby. Inger sends the certificate as a wedding gift after he eloped with Kathy Grant just six days after Inger's birthday.
1958: Two days after her 24th birthday, Inger is in New York City shooting exterior scenes on The World, The Flesh, and The Devil.
1960: Four days before her 26th birthday, Inger's episode "Pearl Flower" of Hong Kong airs on television.
1961: Inger travels to Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania to appear in the Route 66 episode Burning for Burning. Ike Jones, whom she would soon marry, sends her a telegram to mark her 27th birthday.
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| With friend George Maharis on the set of Route 66 |
1963: Inger turns 29 while shooting The New Interns in October.
1964: 30-year-old Inger is celebrated with cake on the set of The Farmer's Daughter. (Photo at top of post.)
1966: A Guide for the Married Man begins shooting six days before Inger's 32nd birthday. Five days after her birthday, Inger appears on The Andy Williams Show.
1967: Inger spends her 33rd birthday in Rome while filming House of Cards.
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| Inger in Rome in 1967 |
Sources:
Miller, John J. "Confidential Memo." San Francisco Chronicle. November 24, 1957.
Patterson, William. Farmer's Daughter Remembered. 2000.
