Allison Hayes

Allison Hayes embodies a certain glamour that defined mid-century B-movies, and I find her story quietly compelling. Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, she moved from beauty pageants into film and television, bringing both striking looks and an education from Catholic University. Her career was brief and she died far too young at 47, which lends her surviving work a bittersweet quality. I respect performers who left a real impression in a short window, and Hayes clearly captured the imagination of her era's audiences. Decades later, that screen presence still reaches across time to anyone willing to look.

Name (English)

Allison Hayes

Name (Japanese)

アリソン・ヘイズ

Reading

ありそん・へいず

Born

March 6, 1930 – February 27, 1977

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

Origin

Charleston, West Virginia, United States

Occupation

actor / model / television actor / film actor / beauty pageant contestant

University

The Catholic University of America

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Hayes
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4356472

Tags

• West Virginia
• actor
• model
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.