# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-payton
# Generated: 2026-09-02T21:43:07.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-payton"
name: "Barbara Payton"
slug: "barbara-payton"
description: "Barbara Lee Payton was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and battles with alcohol abuse and drug addiction. Her life has been the subject of several books, including her autobiography I Am Not Ashamed (1963), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story (2007) by John O'Dowd, L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times (2005) by John Gilmore, and B Movie: A Play in Two Acts (2014) by Michael B. Druxman. She married five times. Payton has been dubbed \"one of the all-time great 'hot messes' in Hollywood history.\""
tagline: "American actress (1927-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_payton_from_1953_Bad_Blonde.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-11-16"
deathDate: "1967-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.42498
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668510/"
    handle:    "nm0668510"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Payton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Barbara Payton"
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    title: "Barbara Payton"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Payton"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Payton"
    title: "Barbara Payton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Payton"
    title: "Barbara Payton"
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    title: "バーバラ・ペイトン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "바바라 페이튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82833"
    title: "Barbara Payton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump