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While writing about Paglia’s death and efforts by his family and friends such as Walker to arrange his funeral and a memorial service (still a work in progress), I have had many phone conversations with her. Walker and Paglia were close friends they went to see movies together and understood each other’s quirks and interests.

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I discovered Walker after local movie critic (for Citizens Television) Bob Paglia died in February. “I call them positive imagery/solution cards.”

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“I invented a deck of cards,” she announced, pulling out a series of small pastoral scenes. She also creates many Christmas decorations they are still up. Walker proudly showed us her paintings, which are very colorful and whimsical.

When I asked her how many she has, she replied, “More than five.” As we went into her bedroom, a mother cat was curled up in a corner with one of her kittens. But she has told the landlord she is allergic to those chemicals and worried about what it might do to her cats. She said there are roaches in her apartment building, so the landlord wants to have every apartment sprayed. Walker had been hesitant to do the interview because she was trying to clean up her cluttered apartment in order to satisfy her landlord. “I discourage it I don’t like that name,” she told me near the beginning of our talk on a recent afternoon. What happened to “Tippy” Walker? For starters, don’t call her “Tippy.” That’s a child nickname taken from her middle name of Tipton. But by 1972 it was all over for her and Hollywood. Kildare” as well as in a few forgettable movies (“Jennifer on My Mind,” “The Jesus Trip”). In the several years after that, she did land parts on the TV shows “Peyton Place” and “Dr. That was in 1964, her break-out role, and the one for which she would always be remembered. That’s a long, long way from the streets of Manhattan, where she bounded joyously as a teenage movie star chasing Peter Sellers for the hit film “ The World of Henry Orient.” She asked the photographer not to use her telephoto lens as the three of us sat amongst Walker’s paintings and her many cats in a cramped bedroom of her apartment off Whalley Avenue in New Haven.