Spoiler : Parks, Hildy (birth name was Hildy de Forrest Parks) Born in Washington, D.C. 3/12/1926; died 10/7/2004 of a stroke at the Actor's Fund Home in Inglewood, New Jersey. Married and divorced to actor/director Jackie Cooper (1950-1951); Broadway producer Alexander H. Cohen (1956-2000 his death). Graduated from the University of Virginia. Moved to New York, making her stage in New York as Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men at the New School theater. Broadway debut in 1947's Bathsheba with James Mason. Screen debut in The Night Holds Terror (1955). Last movie was The Group (1966).

Spoiler : Guest star on at least six telecasts of Studio One for (1948-1958), then continued to act on television until the middle 1960s. Ellie Crown on the CBS-TV soap, Love Of Life (1951-1956). Panelist on Down You Go for NBC-TV (1956); To Tell The Truth for CBS-TV (1956-1957).

Spoiler : From the late 1970s, Parks was a writer and sometimes a co-producer for the Tony Awards presentations on television, working with her husband Cohen until his death in 2000. Writer of CBS: On the Air which celebrated the 50th anniversary of CBS. Emmy Award in 1980 for producing The 34th Annual Tony Awards, 1982 for producing Night Of 100 Stars on ABC.