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Full Name
  
Sonia Paskowitz

Role
  
Film actress

Occupation
  
Actress

Movies
  
The Big Sleep, Caught

Years active
  
1941–1970s

Children
  
Mason Reese

Name
  
Sonia Darrin


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Born
  
c. 1924 (age 90–91)

Spouse(s)
  
William Reese; 4 children

Parents
  
Louis Paskowitz, Rose Paskowitz

Siblings
  
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, Adrian Paskowitz

Nephews
  
Salvador Paskowitz, Moses Paskowitz, Josh Paskowitz

Similar People
  
Mason Reese, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Jack L Warner

Sonia Darrin (born Sonia Paskowitz; June 16, 1924) is a retired American film actress, best known as "Agnes Lowzier" in The Big Sleep (1946).

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Early years

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Darrin was born to Louis and Rose Paskowitz, Jewish emigrants from Russia, who immigrated to Galveston, Texas. She has two brothers, Adrian and Dorian. Her father operated a clothing store in Galveston. Around 1940, the family moved to Los Angeles, California.

Career

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Darrin danced in the film Lady in the Dark (1944) and worked with Ed Wynn and Alan Young on their early television programs.

Personal life

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Darrin married William "Bill" Reese, a theater set designer and marketing services company president. The couple had four children, three sons and a daughter, and lived in Manhattan. Their youngest son is the former child actor Mason Reese. Her last two public appearances were on The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, and in a documentary film about her brother, Dorian, in 2007.

She has resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for over 50 years.

Partial filmography

  • It Started with Eve (1941)
  • Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Bury Me Dead (1947)
  • I, Jane Doe (1948)
  • Caught (1949)
  • Federal Agent at Large (1950)
  • References

    Sonia Darrin Wikipedia