Early Life and Education
Frontiere was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Lucia Pamela Irwin, Miss St. Louis of 1926, KMOX radio’s ‘gal about town’, and the leader of America’s first all-girl orchestra (Lucia Pamela and her band of musical pirates), and Reginald Irwin, an insurance salesman and businessman.
Frontiere had early aspirations to work as an opera singer eventually travelling to Milan to train with the Milan Opera. By ten years old, she performed along with her mother and brother in the singing group, the Pamela Trio. The group traveled the state and entertained at ballrooms and state fairs.
Frontiere attended Soldan High School in St. Louis.
At fifteen, Frontiere’s parents divorced and she married a young U.S. marine who was heading to Europe during World War II, but the union was quickly annulled. A few years later, the family moved to Fresno, California, where Frontiere performed at dinner theatres alongside her mother in a duo, the Pamela Sisters. During this time, she married her second husband, who was killed in a car accident near San Francisco shortly after the couple had wed.
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