told<\/a>\u00a0Nick Thomas in 2016. \u201cHe came up behind me, squatted down and placed three fingers on my left shoulder and yelled, \u2018Someone take my picture!\u2019 Apparently, War of the Worlds was one of his favorite films growing up.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThey treated me like royalty,\u201d she added. \u201cMy son, who was with me, told me he heard people saying, \u2018She\u2019s here, she\u2019s here!\u2019 after we arrived on the set. Then for the Ziegfeld Theater premiere, they flew me to New York first class, put me up in a beautiful hotel overlooking Central Park and arranged for a limousine to drive my family around. I waited 60 years to get that treatment!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tRobinson also played Sylvia on a few episodes of a 1988-90 War of the Worlds syndicated TV series.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve gotten more mileage out of War of the Worlds than Vivien Leigh did on Gone With the Wind,\u201d she told Weaver.<\/p>\n
\n\tBorn on May 25, 1929, Robinson attended Hollywood High and Sacred Heart Academy in La Canada Flintridge. In one of her first movies, she doubled for June Havoc and got caught on a 15-foot barbed-wire fence trying to escape the Tehachapi state prison in The Story of Molly X (1949).<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI had lied like crazy to get the job, telling everybody how experienced I was!\u201d she told Weaver. \u201cI looked and thought to myself, \u2018What have I got myself into?\u2019 But when you\u2019re that young and stupid, nothing fazes you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe also rode horses in Black Midnight (1949), starring Roddy McDowall, stepped in for Shelley Winters in Frenchie (1950) and served as an extra in A Place in the Sun (1951), for which director George Stevens gave her a line of dialogue.<\/p>\n
\n\tRobinson joined the Circle Theatre in Hollywood, then was signed by Paramount for $125 a week as one of the studio\u2019s \u201cGolden Circle\u201d of future stars.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter War of the Worlds and a loan-out to Columbia to work in the film noir The Glass Wall (1953), Paramount decided not to renew her contract. In 1954, she played an L.A. cop opposite Jack Webb in the first Dragnet movie and an alien queen on a syndicated kids sci-fi show, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.<\/p>\n
\n\tRobinson put show business on hold in 1957 when she ran off to Mexico to marry Jaime Bravo, a famous matador. That \u201cblew my career right out of the water,\u201d she told Weaver. \u201cWhen I got back home, Hollywood had passed me by. I just ruined it, I blew it.\u201d She and Bravo had two children before divorcing in 1967.<\/p>\n
\n\tRobinson, however, did guest-star in the 1960s on many TV shows, including Perry Mason, Bachelor Father, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Peter Gunn, Death Valley Days and 77 Sunset Strip.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition to her granddaughter, survivors include a son, Jaime Bravo Jr., a director for ABC Sports and ESPN, and a grandson, Sammy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann Robinson, the red-haired actress who was memorably menaced by Martians in the spectacular 1953 sci-fi classic The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,3879,7198,17293,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-tom-cruise","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}