Editing Tuesday Weld (section)

===20th Century Fox===
Weld's performance in ''Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!'' impressed executives at Fox, who signed her to a long-term contract.<ref name="weld">{{Cite news|first=Frederick|last=Christian|date=July 26, 1959|title=Tuesday Weld New Girl in Hollywood|newspaper=[[The Washington Post and Times-Herald]]|id={{ProQuest|149287044}}}}</ref> They cast her in the [[CBS]] television series ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]'', with a salary of $35,000 for one year.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Only 15, but Expects to Collect $35,000 in TV|date=February 28, 1959|page=B5|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|id={{ProQuest|167411679}}}}</ref> Weld played [[Thalia Menninger]], the love interest of Dobie Gillis (played by [[Dwayne Hickman]]), whose rivals for Thalia's affection included Milton Armitage (played by [[Warren Beatty]]). Although Weld was a cast member for only one season, the show created considerable national publicity for her,<ref name="BDenverbook">{{Cite book|first=Bob|last=Denver|author-link=Bob Denver|year=1993|title=Gilligan, Maynard & Me|location=Secaucus, New Jersey|publisher=Citadel Press|pages=9–45|isbn=978-0806514130}}</ref> and she was named a co-winner of a "Most Promising Newcomer" award at the [[Golden Globe Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hfpa.org/browse/?param=/film/25247|title=The Five Pennies|work=[[Golden Globe Award]]|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=April 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name="weld"/>

At Columbia, Weld had a leading role in the teen film ''[[Because They're Young]]'' (1960), starring [[Dick Clark]]. She was second billed in ''[[Sex Kittens Go to College]]'' (1960) made by [[Albert Zugsmith]] at [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]. She made a second film for Zugsmith, ''[[The Private Lives of Adam and Eve]]'', made in 1959 but not released for two years.

She guest starred on ''[[The Red Skelton Hour]]'' in "Appleby: The Big Producer" (1959) and on ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'' (1959) and ''[[The Millionaire (TV series)|The Millionaire]]'' (1960).

At Fox, she played Joy, a free-spirited university student in ''[[High Time (film)|High Time]]'', starring [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Fabian Forte]]. She sang a love song to Fabian in the season opener of [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Dinah Shore Chevy Show]]'' on October 9, 1960. Four weeks later, on November 13, Weld returned to the network as a guest star in NBC's ''[[The Tab Hunter Show]]''. She guested in "The Mormons" for ''[[Zane Grey Theatre]]'' (1960).<ref>{{Cite news|title=Tuesday Weld, at 16 Would Spend Her Life Like Money|last=Alpert|first=Don|date=March 13, 1960|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=I3}}</ref>

For Fox, Weld had a supporting role in the sequel ''[[Return to Peyton Place (film)|Return to Peyton Place]]'' (1961), in the part played by [[Hope Lange]] in the original. Her portrayal of an [[incest]] victim was well received, but the film was less successful than its predecessor.<ref name=Moviecrazed /> She supported [[Elvis Presley]] in ''[[Wild in the Country]]'' (1962), along with Lange. Weld had an off-screen romance with Presley.<ref>{{cite book |last=Keogh |first=Pamela Clarke |title=Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the Legend |date=2008 |publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York |isbn=978-0743486132 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4leHQDbq6MEC|access-date=February 8, 2015}}</ref>

Fox also used her as a guest star on ''[[Follow the Sun (TV series)|Follow the Sun]]'' ("The Highest Wall") and ''[[Adventures in Paradise (TV series)|Adventures in Paradise]]'' ("The Velvet Trap"). On November 12, 1961, she played a singer, Cherie, in the seventh episode of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s television series ''[[Bus Stop (TV series)|Bus Stop]]'', produced by Fox, with [[Marilyn Maxwell]] and [[Gary Lockwood]]. It was an adaptation of the play by [[William Inge]], with Weld in the role originated on screen by [[Marilyn Monroe]].

Weld supported [[Terry-Thomas]] in the [[Frank Tashlin]] comedy ''[[Bachelor Flat]]'' (1962), for Fox. Following the film's release, she appeared on ''[[What's My Line?]]'' as the celebrity mystery guest.<ref>{{Citation|last=What's My Line?|title=What's My Line? – Tuesday Weld; Dana Andrews [panel]; Johnny Carson [panel] (Jan 14, 1962)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cW1NjrXCE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/t7cW1NjrXCE |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=December 5, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:Confidential Magazine cover September 1960 - Tuesday Weld.jpg|thumb|Gossip magazine (1960) with a story about Weld and [[John Ireland]]]]
Weld's mother was scandalized by her teen daughter's love affairs with older men, such as actor [[John Ireland]], but Weld resisted, saying, {{"'}}If you don't leave me alone, I'll quit being an actress—which means there ain't gonna be no more money for you, Mama'. Finally, when I was sixteen, I left home. I just went out the door and bought my own house".

She was [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s first choice to play the role of [[Lolita]] in [[Lolita (1962 film)|his 1962 film]], but she turned the offer down, saying: "I didn't have to play it. I was Lolita".<ref name="louis jordan" />

Weld took three months off to go to Greenwich Village in New York and "study myself". Then she starred along with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in ''[[Soldier in the Rain]]'', written by Blake Edwards from a novel by [[William Goldman]], but the film was only a minor success.<ref>{{Cite news|title=HOLLYWOOD CALENDAR: Tuesday Weld Serves Notice on Film Capital|last=Scott|first=John L.|date=July 14, 1963|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|page=d8}}</ref>

She won excellent reviews for a February 7, 1962, episode in the ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]'', "A Case Study of Two Savages", adapted from the real-life case of backwood killers [[Charles Starkweather]] (played by [[Rip Torn]]) and Caril Ann Fugate, (depicted as the character Ora Mae Youngham, played by Weld), Starkweather's 14 year old girlfriend, on a homicidal spree ending in New York City.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=A Case Study of Two Savages|magazine=[[TV Guide]]|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/naked-city/episode-18-season-3/a-case-study-of-two-savages/203338/|access-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203180704/http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/naked-city/episode-18-season-3/a-case-study-of-two-savages/203338/|archive-date=3 December 2015}}</ref> She guest starred on ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' in "Love Is a Skinny Kid" (1962), ''[[Ben Casey]]'' in "When You See an Evil Man" (1962), and ''[[The Dick Powell Theatre]]'' in "A Time to Die" (1962) and "[[Run Till It's Dark]]" with Fabian (1962).

In 1963, Weld guest starred as Denise Dunlear in ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', in the episode "Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room" alongside [[Angela Lansbury]]. She was in "[[The Legend of Lylah Clare]]" for ''[[The DuPont Show of the Week]]'' (1963), directed by [[Franklin J. Schaffner]].

[[File:David Janssen Tuesday Weld The Fugitive 1964.jpg|160px|thumb|right|Weld in 1964, with [[David Janssen]] in the TV series ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''.]]
In 1964, she appeared in the title role of the episode "Keep an Eye on Emily" on [[Craig Stevens (actor)|Craig Stevens]]'s [[CBS]] drama, ''[[Mr. Broadway (TV series)|Mr. Broadway]]''. In the same year, she appeared as a troubled blind woman in "Dark Corner", an episode of ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''.

She appeared with her former co-star Dwayne Hickman in [[Jack Palance|Jack Palance's]] circus drama ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], in separate episodes.

Weld supported [[Bob Hope]] in the comedy ''[[I'll Take Sweden]]'' (1965).