Lisa Had a Little Lamb “Baa” “Baa” 

The following article appeared in the January 1957 issue of Stockman.

Now no one could ever accuse sultry actress Lisa Ferraday of being a 4-H’er, but this is one publicity chore that the Hungarian-born television star actually enjoyed with all the enthusiasm of a born farm-hand. Actually, she had never been closer to a lamb than a fine woolen suit, but when Miss Ferraday received a contract to tour the United States with a baby lamb on behalf of Woolite, a new cold-water soap, she actually fell in love with Wooly Woolite. (Woolite dates to 1951 with it was introduced to protect wool, silks, nylons and other delicate fabrics from shrinking, stretching and fading.)

The glamourous actress has appeared opposite of host of screen idols – Burt Lancaster, Jon Hall, George Sanders and Fred Astaire among them – but it was her fleecy “co-star” who won her heart.

The daughter of Hungary’s Baron Nicholas De Mezey, Miss Ferraday was taught to speak fluent Rumanian, German, Hungarian, French, Italian and English – as a matter of fact, she was so well versed in just about everything but lambs. So with her usual thirst for information, Lisa set about to find out all there was to know about the lamb-kingdom. Just about a lamb-expert now, she can boast that she knows: how to give a lamb a bath.

Although the lambs’ usual comment on all this bathing is “Baa”, the lambs we know never had it so good.

Sidenote:  Lisa Ferraday was born on a 7,000 acre produce farm in Romania. She was no stranger to farm animals but no reference has been found that the family farm had sheep. Her father died when she was young and she and her mother moved to Paris where she took up acting. You may find more about Ms. Ferraday and her acting career with an internet search.