Raffin biography
Deborah raffin cause of death...
Deborah Raffin Dies at 59
Deborah Raffin, who had brief but successful careers both as an actress – 7th Heaven, among other shows – and a book publisher, died of leukemia last Wednesday, a family member told the Los Angeles Times.
Raffin was 59 and reportedly had battled the disease for about a year.
Raffin biography
Starting out, the blonde Californian was often compared to the young Grace Kelly, PEOPLE noted in a 1979 profile. Her mother, Trudy Marshall, had been a bit player for 20th Century Fox in the ’40s, and her father was a wealthy meat broker.
When Raffin was a sophomore at Valley College in Van Nuys, an agent stopped her in an elevator and asked if she’d like to be in movies. Her screen career was launched – though it was a bumpy one.
Through no fault of her own, Raffin made a string of bad movies in the ’70s, including 40 Carats and Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough.
Nevertheless, she cannily kept her face and figure before the public modeling for fashion magazi