Collin Wilcox Paxton(1935-2009)

Husband Scott Paxton was 18 years her junior. They were married for 30 years before her death.

I had known girls from that kind of background. [At the audition] all the other girls trying out for the part were overly made up; they had curly, clean hair and wore brassieres and high heels. I wore a secondhand dress, tennis shoes with holes in them, and dirty little white socks. I rubbed cold cream through my hair--and that's why my hair looked so dirty -- CWP, reflecting on her role as "Mayella" in the film Du silence et des ombres (1962).