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Jill
and Don at home with Jill adorned in classic 60's fashion and hair style.
Click
here to view a page from the Hoak family album. |
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Don
at home on his 35th birthday. We don't have the story of just why
he's admiring the baseball! |
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Bringing
infant daughter Clare home from the hospital, Jill and Don stop to pose
with their treasured bundle. |
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Just
mother and daughter |
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Proud
daddy Don holding young Clare, already showing signs as a toddler of the
inherent beauty that would one day propel her to a very successful modeling
career spanning both sides of the Atlantic. |
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Jill,
Don and baby Clare at home |
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Jill
and Clare out for a walk |
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Jill
poses for two pictures with daughter Clare, here about age six in 1971,
when Clare declares that she too would like to follow a show business career.
The pictures were taken by a news photo service in New Jersey, presumably
to appear in a Sunday supplement to local newspapers. Two
pictures added 11/19/09 |
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Jill
and Clare take a moment to pose with Jill's sister Alice in town for a
visit. |
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Jill
with Jeff and Kim Hoak, Don's children by a previous marriage. The
portrait of Jill in the background is the one that drew comment from Edward
R. Murrow during his 1957 Person to Person interview with
Jill. You can hear the audio track from the interview by clicking
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An
affectionate moment shared by mother and daughter |
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Christmas
time for Clare |
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Mother
and daughter appear ready for bedtime in this study in black and white. |
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Party
time for Jill and Clare! This beautiful child
grew up to become a stunning young lady who soon found a career awaiting
her in modeling and then in television and the movies. Just click
here to see Clare as she emerged from the Hoak family nest and began
to spread her own lovely wings. |
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Somebody's
birthday! |
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Caught
peeking at Christmas gifts under the tree? |
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Jill
assumes a rather saucy, provocative pose . . . or is it just a lark on
her part? |
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Jill
pauses for a snapshot sporting a coiffeur rather radically different from
those 50's style hairdos we remember from her television appearances. |
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Jill
relaxes at home between cabaret and musical theater engagements during
the 1980's. |
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During
the 90's, Jill regularly hosted dinner parties for close friends in her
Manhattan apartment. Shown here are daughter Clare and 1950's fan
club president Marle Becker at a Christmas party in the mid-90's.
Click here or on the image at left to
see more of Jill's friends and a bit of her apartment. |
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In
this more recent picture Jill, along with friend and fellow bird watcher
Scott Kaminsky, enjoys her favorite outdoor activity in New York's Central
Park not far from her former home in Manhattan. In July 2008, Jill
relocated to Los Angeles to be closer to daughter Clare, who has made her
home there. |
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On
Mother's Day, May 10, 2010, Jill joined daughter Clare and Clare's beloved
cat Lily in Clare's Los Angeles apartment, where Clare took a series of
pictures using her iPhone. Click on Jill's picture at left to see
the results. |
