Alexandra Hay


Alexandra Lynn Hay was an American actress of the 1960s and 1970s best known for her role as Gloria in the 1969 film Model Shop.

Early life and modeling

Alexandra Hay was a native of Los Angeles, and attended Arroyo High School in El Monte.
At age 12, Alexandra was signed to the Adrian Teen Model Agency, where she would book modeling jobs for the next four years. She was featured as “Gal of the Month” for the June 1963 issue of Dig magazine.
After her mother died on August 25, 1963 when Hay was age 16, she was orphaned. On April 2, 1964 she married former naval officer Cedric Kehoe as a means to move to Europe. In an interview, she described her time in Europe: "I modeled in London to earn a living and I had a ball. That was in 1964 when London was exploding – all the excitement about The Beatles and The Beat – I nearly blew my mind."

Mainstream career

On October 29th, 1966, the Los Angeles Times reported "Columbia's New Talent Program has developed another young actress, Alexandra Hay, who has been signed to a long-term exclusive contract by the studio."
Hay's first credited role was in an episode of The Monkees, "Monkee Mother". Her career continued with small roles in the 1967 movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Ambushers. In the former, she portrayed a carhop who takes an ice cream order from Spencer Tracy’s character.

''The Beard'' arrests

Alexandra Hay played the role of Jean Harlow in Michael McClure's controversial play The Beard. She was arrested 12 times for lewd conduct and later acquitted by the California Supreme Court.

Later career and death

In 1968, Hay co-starred in the romantic comedy How Sweet It Is! as Gloria, and in Skidoo, as Jackie Gleason's and Carol Channing's daughter, in love with a hippie boy, played by John Phillip Law. She and Law were re-teamed later, in The Love Machine. She also starred in the 1969 film Model Shop. Her later films included Fun and Games , How to Seduce a Woman, and The One Man Jury.
Hay had television roles in episodes of , Love, American Style, Dan August, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, Thriller, and Police Story. She appeared in the television movies, The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One and The Screaming Woman. She was also featured in a February 1974 pictorial in Playboy magazine titled "Alexandra the Great".
Hay died in 1993 at age 46, of arteriosclerotic heart disease. She was cremated, and her ashes were scattered off the coast of Marina del Rey, California.

Filmography