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Myrna Fahey‌

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Female

Birthday

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Myrna Fahey

Carmel, Maine

Myrna Fahey

Carmel, Maine

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1933-03-12

Popularity

star4.1

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Myrna Fahey (12 March 1933 - 6 May 1973) was an American actress best known for her role as Maria Crespo in Walt Disney's Zorro, and as Madeline Usher in the film version of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Fall of the House of Usher. She appeared in episodes of 37 television series from the 1950s into the 1970s, including Bonanza, The Time Tunnel, Maverick, Perry Mason, and Batman . Fahey also became the subject of death threats while dating Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnew Mental Hospital in San Francisco, who could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962. Fahey complained in a 1960 interview that she was being typecast in 'good girl' roles because of what directors called her 'moral overtones' and wanted to play darker and more complicated characters. She'd worked in many Westerns in the late 1950s, usually in the role of the sheriff's daughter, including an appearance on Marshall Dillon in 1957 (the episode entitled: Innocent Broad), which later became Gunsmoke. Her image branched out in the 1960s, helped by House of Usher and a role on the Boris Karloff-hosted TV series Thriller that same year entitled 'Girl With A Secret'. Even her Western parts became darker. After a rough love scene in Bonanza in which she cut her lip, the cast presented her with an award for 'Best Slapper in a Filmed Series'. Fahey's most sustained television work was a starring role in the one-season (1961-62) series Father of the Bride. The series was based upon a film of the same name starring Elizabeth Taylor, and Fahey likely got the role because, as one newspaper reviewer pointed out, she "looks enough like Liz Taylor to be her sister".  Fahey was not flattered by the comparison, however, telling one interviewer "the fact that I'm supposed to look like Elizabeth Whats-Her-Name had nothing to do with my getting [the part], because we don't really look alike I don't think, we just happen to have the same colorings." Fahey wanted to be released from the show even before it came up for renewal, reportedly feeling too much emphasis was being placed on the "father" character and not enough on her "bride" In 1966, she played Blaze in the Batman episodes "True or False Face" and "Holy Rat Race". Fahey was born in Carmel, Maine, near Bangor in 1933, but grew up in Southwest Harbor near Bar Harbor, Maine, where she was a cheerleader at Pemetic High School. She began competing in local beauty pageants in the early 1950s. She acted one season at the Pasadena Playhouse before breaking into TV, and became an avid skier in California. She invested in stocks and one of her contracts stipulated that she have a stock ticker in her dressing room. Besides Joe DiMaggio, she also dated George Hamilton. She died on 6 May 1973 at age 40 at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California, after a long battle with cancer. She is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Bangor, Maine Description above from the Wikipedia article Myrna Fahey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

House of Usher

House of Usher‌
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calendar 1960

Face of a Fugitive

Face of a Fugitive‌
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calendar 1959

The Story on Page One

The Story on Page One‌
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calendar 1959

The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest‌
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calendar 1958

Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels‌
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calendar 1957

Loving You

Loving You‌
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calendar 1957

I Died a Thousand Times

I Died a Thousand Times‌
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calendar 1955

Man on the Beach

Man on the Beach‌
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calendar 1961

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life‌
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calendar 1959

The Great American Beauty Contest

The Great American Beauty Contest‌
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calendar 1973

Tv Credits

The Time Tunnel

The Time Tunnel‌
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calendar 1966

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre‌
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calendar 1963

Batman

Batman‌
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calendar 1966

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke‌
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calendar 1955

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
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calendar 1957

Zorro

Zorro‌
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calendar 1957

Laredo

Laredo‌
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calendar 1965

Straightaway

Straightaway‌
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calendar 1961

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone‌
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calendar 1964

Thriller

Thriller‌
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calendar 1960

Adventures of Superman

Adventures of Superman‌
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calendar 1952

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride‌
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calendar 1961

The Alaskans

The Alaskans‌
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calendar 1959

Laramie

Laramie‌
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calendar 1959

Cavalcade of America

Cavalcade of America‌
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calendar 1952

Rango

Rango‌
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calendar 1967

Harbor Command

Harbor Command‌
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calendar 1957

Kings Row

Kings Row‌
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calendar 1955

The Americans

The Americans‌
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calendar 1961

Maverick

Maverick‌
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calendar 1957

West Point

West Point‌
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calendar 1956

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet‌
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calendar 1952

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show‌
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calendar 1950

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.‌
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calendar 1969

Surfside 6

Surfside 6‌
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calendar 1960

Surfside 6

Surfside 6‌
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calendar 1960

Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye‌
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calendar 1959

Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye‌
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calendar 1959

Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye‌
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calendar 1959

Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye‌
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calendar 1959

Wagon Train

Wagon Train‌
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calendar 1957

Wagon Train

Wagon Train‌
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calendar 1957

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
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calendar 1958

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
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calendar 1958

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
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calendar 1958

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
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calendar 1958

Maverick

Maverick‌
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calendar 1957

Maverick

Maverick‌
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calendar 1957

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre‌
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calendar 1963

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
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calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
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calendar 1957

Perry Mason

Perry Mason‌
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calendar 1957

Bonanza

Bonanza‌
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calendar 1959

The Ed Wynn Show

The Ed Wynn Show‌
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calendar 1958

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip‌
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calendar 1958