Marcy McGuire
{{short description|American actress and contralto singer (1926–2021)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Marcy McGuire
| image =
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| birthname = Marilyn Jeanne McGuire
| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|2|22}}
| birth_place = Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|8|7|1926|2|22}}
| death_place = Palm Desert, California, U.S.
| occupation = Film actress, singer-songwriter
| yearsactive = 1942–1963
| spouse = {{marriage|Wally Cassell|1947|2015|end=d.}}
| children= 2
}}
Marilyn Jeanne McGuire (February 22, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress and contralto singer who was active in the 1940s.
Life and career
McGuire was born on February 22, 1926, to James Joseph McGuire, a film projectionist and Annona (née Crowley) McGuire. Her parents divorced in the early 1930s, while McGuire was still a child.
McGuire signed a contract with RKO Pictures and was subsequently cast in her first film at the age of sixteen, Seven Days' Leave (1942), which starred Lucille Ball.{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19431227&id=C9hXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z_UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5563,5250526 | title=Baxter to see Marcy McGuire | work=Spokane Daily Chronicle | date=December 27, 1943 | accessdate=March 6, 2014}} Her other films include Higher and Higher (1944, starring Frank Sinatra), Career Girl (1944), Seven Days Ashore (1944), It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) and You Gotta Stay Happy (1948). Her penultimate film before retiring from Hollywood was Jumping Jacks (1952), with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She also had a minor uncredited role in Disney's Summer Magic (1963) as a young maid named Ellen by putting on an Irish accent before her permanent retirement.
McGuire was married to actor Wally Cassell from 1947 until his death in 2015. The couple had two children.{{cite web|url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/MarcyMcGuire |title=Marcy McGuire |publisher=Des Moines Register Data Central |first=Tom |last=Longden |accessdate=March 6, 2014 |archivedate=April 11, 2014 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140411173423/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/MarcyMcGuire |url-status=live }}{{cite news|work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 28, 2015 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wally-cassell-dead-white-heat-798730 |title=Wally Cassell, Gangster in 'White Heat,' Dies at 103 |first=Mike |last=Barnes |archivedate=January 17, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117214642/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wally-cassell-dead-white-heat-798730 |url-status=live }} She died in Palm Desert, California on August 7, 2021, at the age of 95. News of her death was only made public in August 2022, by film historians Austin and Howard Mutti-Mewse.{{cite web |title=One year on: News of Marcy McGuire's passing was recently confirmed by her son-in-law. She died on August 07, 2021, in Palm Desert, California, aged 95. |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7KCk2sp4P/ |website=Austin & Howard Mutti-Mewse on Instagram |access-date=7 August 2022}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Year
!style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Title !style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Role |
|---|
| rowspan=1|1942
|Mickey Havalok-Allen |
| rowspan=2|1943
|Herself |
| Higher and Higher
|Mickey |
| rowspan=2|1944
|Louise |
| Seven Days Ashore
|Dot Diamond |
| rowspan=1|1945
|Bridget Forrester |
| rowspan=1|1946
|Miss Angela Jones |
| rowspan=1|1947
|Rae Jakobi |
| rowspan=1|1948
|Georgia Goodrich |
| rowspan=1|1952
|Julia Loring |
| rowspan=1|1963
|Ellen |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0570253|Marcy McGuire}}
- [http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=105052&AN_ID=&searchedFor=Marcy_McGuire_ Marcy McGuire] at the American Film Institute
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American women
Category:American film actresses
Category:American women singers
Category:RKO Pictures contract players
Category:Actresses from Kansas City, Kansas
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