Bellinda Myrick

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Bellinda Myrick, also known as Bellinda Myrick-Barnett, is a U.S. singer and actress.

Myrick was born in 1948 in Louisiana and raised in Odessa, Texas by parents LaVerne & bluegrass performer Bill Myrick. She is the niece of Louisiana Senator Spencer Myrick.

Myrick graduated from Odessa High School in 1966, and followed in her father's footsteps beginning a professional singing career while attending the University of Texas. At the University of Texas, Myrick was chosen as one of the university's Top 25 Most Beautiful. She was also awarded the titles of Miss Texas and Miss West Texas and was chosen to be one of the six state title holders that accompanied Miss America Phyllis George as part of the Miss America USO Show to South Vietnam.

Myrick went on to work at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, California where she lived for eleven years and was involved in extensive charity work with the Thalians and Associates for Troubled Children. She performed as a singer and actress around the world, working numerous times over the years as a special guest star for Bob Hope, as well as Red Skelton and Willie Nelson.

Academy Award winning producer Hal B. Wallis cast Myrick in the leading role of "Ronnie" in the movie A Stone for Danny Fisher, a remake of the Harold Robbins novel of the same name, but Wallis died of a heart attack while the movie was still in pre-production and production halted

Myrick-Barnett has just finished her 3rd novel to be published in 2009 and lives with her husband and two sons in Texas.

ources

*cite journal |author=Gary Hartman |coauthors=Gregg Andrews, Jimmy McWilliams |year= 2006 |title= |journal= Journal of Texas Music History |volume= 6 |issue= 1 |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate=2006|
*cite journal |title=101st AIRBORNE DIVISION - SCREAMING EAGLES |year=1971 |journal=101st AIRBORNE DIVISION - SCREAMING EAGLES - SOUTH VIETNAM, Photographs by Paul Cauley, Door Gunner, A Co 101st Avn.
*cite book
coauthors = Joe Carr, Alan Munde
title = Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas
publisher = Texas Tech University Press
date = 1995
pages = pp. 198-203
month = June
isbn = 978-0-89672-349-8

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/bellindamyrick Bellinda Myrick's myspace page]