page_title: Laura Devon
section_title: Screen career and filmography
hierarchical_section_title: Laura Devon / Screen career and filmography
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Dean Martin guest starring as gunfighter Canliss and Laura Devon as his wife, from the television series Rawhide.
context_page_description: Laura Devon was an American actress, singer, and model.
context_section_description: In 1961, Laura Devon was discovered by Bob Goldstein of 20th Century Fox while she was singing at the London Chop House in Detroit. She tells the story of her coming to Hollywood in this way:
  There was talk about testing me for "High Heels" at the time. I had an agent at MCA who told me UI was also interested: he took me there first to test and they signed me to a contract straight off, so I never got to 20th. But for the full year at U.I. I was never put into a picture. I had voice, dancing and acting lessons: Louis Graveure coached me in singing, Charles Conrad in drama, and the studio paid the bills. It was like being totally subsidized and with nothing to do but study.
  During an eight-year period, from 1960 to 1967, Devon had featured roles in numerous popular TV shows.  A 1962 appearance in Route 66 was her first significant part. Following that, she appeared in:  Insight, The New Breed, The Twilight Zone, Stoney Burke, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Rawhide (an episode entitled "Canliss", as Dean Martin's gunfighter character's wife in 1964), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Rogues, Bonanza, I Spy, The Fugitive, T.H.E. Cat, The Big Valley, Coronet Blue, and The Invaders.  She had a recurring role on four episodes of Dr. Kildare and she was a member of the repertory cast that rotated major and supporting roles on the critically acclaimed series The Richard Boone Show.
  In addition, Devon appeared in five feature-length commercial films, playing Rusty Sartori in Goodbye Charlie (1964), Julie Kazarian in Red Line 7000 (1965), Marie Champlain in Chamber of Horrors (1966), Rosemary in A Covenant with Death (1967) and Edie in Gunn (1967).
caption: Devon and Dean Martin in Rawhide (1964)
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