Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress.
 Dee began her career as a child model, working in commercials before transitioning to film in her teenage years.
 Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wise's "Until They Sail" (1958).
 She became a teenage star for her subsequent performances in "Imitation of Life" and "Gidget" (both 1959), which made her a household name.
Katherine Marie Heigl ( ; born November 24, 1978) is an American actress, film producer and former fashion model.
 She started her career as a child model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting.
 She made her film debut in "That Night" (1992) and later appeared in "My Father the Hero" (1994) as well as "" (1995).
 From 2005 to 2010, Heigl starred as Isobel Stevens on the television series "Grey's Anatomy".
Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, model and former child star.
 She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film "Pretty Baby" (1978), in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century.
 The role garnered Shields widespread notoriety, and she continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including "The Blue Lagoon" (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's "Endless Love" (1981).
Davetta Sherwood (born January 27, 1984) is an American actress and musician.
 Sherwood first worked as a child model before venturing into an acting career including appearing in music videos and guest appearances.
 Her first breakthrough acting role was on the Emmy award-winning soap opera "The Young and the Restless", which earned her a nomination for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series".
 In 2008, she launched her production company, 5 Foot Nuthin Productions.
Ryan Whitney Newman (born April 24, 1998) is an American actress, singer, and model.
 She is known for her roles as Allison in "The Thundermans", Ginger Falcone in "Zeke and Luther", Cindy Collins in "Zoom", and Emily Hobbs in "See Dad Run".
 As a child model, Newman has participated in photo shoots such as "Inspire Magazine", "Kaiya Eve Photoshoots 2009" and "Dream Magazine", as well as modeling for fashion designer, Sherri Hill.
 Newman not only works in films and television shows, but has also appeared in commercials.
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American film actress who began her career as a child model.
 She appeared in magazine, newspaper, and television advertising, before she made her debut in the 1984 crime film "Once Upon a Time in America".
 Connelly continued modeling and acting, starring in films such as the 1985 horror film "Phenomena" (her first leading role), the 1986 film "Labyrinth" and the 1991 films "Career Opportunities" and "The Rocketeer".
 She gained critical acclaim for her work in the 1998 science fiction film "Dark City" and for her portrayal of Marion Silver in the 2000 drama "Requiem for a Dream".
The Wild and the Innocent is a 1959 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor Western film directed by Jack Sher starring Audie Murphy and Sandra Dee as two inexperienced young people who get into trouble when they visit a town for the very first time.
LuAnn Haslam (born March 28, 1953) is an American blogger and former child actress.
 Beginning a career as a professional child model and actress at the age of eleven, Haslam is best known for her role as "Becky Thatcher" on the Hanna-Barbera children's television series, "The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" which originally aired on NBC from 1968 to 1969.
 After leaving acting and becoming a high school teacher, Haslam assumed the identity of prom expert "Patty the Prom Pro", offering advice and services to high school students on the website Prom-Night.
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Patty Mullen is an American actress and model born on Staten Island, New York.
 She starred in the 1990 cult film "Frankenhooker" and the 1987 film "Doom Asylum".
 Mullen's modeling career began with her first appearance in "Penthouse".
 She was "Penthouse" Pet of the Month August 1986 and Pet of the Year 1988.
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television.
 She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation.
 Foster began her professional career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom "Mayberry R.F.D." being her debut.
 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films.
 Foster's breakthrough came in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute; the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award.
 Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and the thriller "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's "Freaky Friday" (1976), "Candleshoe" (1977) and "Foxes" (1980).

Question: In what year was the American actress who starred in The Wild and the Innocent who began her career as a child model born?
Answer: 1942