A pretty and promising Australian-born actress in Hollywood films from the early 1930s, pinch-cheeked Mary Maguire was born Helene Teresa ("Peggy") Maguire in Melbourne, one of five children born to footfall player and boxer turned hotelier Michael "Mick" Maguire. One of her sisters became actress Joan Shannon. A student at the Academy of Mary ...
According to Laura Wagner in her article on Mary in Films of the Golden Age, Summer 2014, Mary's first husband, Captain Robert Gordon-Canning, a World War vet, was once a member of the British Union of Fascists.
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A son, Michael, from her first marriage, was born in February 1941. He died soon after, most probably of SIDS.
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Was dating Fox chairman Joseph M. Schenck at the time she was signed by the studio for film work.
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