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 thirty-seven television series from the 1950s into the 1970s, including Bonanza, Wagon Train,Straightaway, The Time Tunnel, Maverick, Perry Mason, The Adventures of Superman, Kraft Suspense Theatre and Batman .0265196Fahey 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 May 6, 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, MaineFahey complained in a 1960 interview that she was being typecast in 'good girl' roles because of what directors called her 'moral overtones', even though she wanted to play darker and more complicated characters. She had worked in many Westerns in the late 1950s, usually in the role of the sheriff's daughter, including an appearance on Gunsmoke in 1957 (the episode entitled: Innocent Broad). She also appeared in "Duel at Sundown", a particularly famous episode of Maverick with James Garner, featuring Clint Eastwood as a trigger-happy villain. She starred in two episodes of Wagon Train: "The Jane Hawkins Story" (1960) and "The Melanie Craig Story" (1964). 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. 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"Fahey made four guest appearanc
There's supposed to be an extreme ambivalence in everyone. If you are extremely nice, you want to be bad, and vice versa. I'm kind of in the middle of the road.
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I have moral overtones.
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Her father was a boat builder in her home state, Maine.
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Graduated from Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor, Maine, aged 17. Was runner-up 'Miss Maine' in 1952.
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Studied acting, under Sanford Meisner, at the Neighbourhood Playhouse.
Was a runner up in the 1952 Miss Maine beauty pagaent.
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Acted at the Pasadena Playhouse for 1 year.
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Interred at her family's lot in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Bangor, ME.
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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.
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At her parents' insistence, she moved to Hollywood in 1956 accompanied by two family friends.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Great American Beauty Contest
1973
TV Movie
Miss Utah Chaperone
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1971
TV Series
Grace Ashley
Monty Nash
1971
TV Series
Roxanne
Peyton Place
1969
TV Series
Jennifer Ivers
Rango
1967
TV Series
Kit Clanton
The Time Tunnel
1967
TV Series
Rahab
Batman
1966
TV Series
Blaze
Perry Mason
1960-1966
TV Series
Holly Andrews / Myrna Warren / Grace Halley / ...
Laredo
1965
TV Series
Emily Henderson
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1964-1965
TV Series
Mrs. Janet 'Jan' Banning / Honora Malone
Daniel Boone
1965
TV Series
Sara
The Reporter
1964
TV Series
Marilinn Shipp
Wagon Train
1960-1964
TV Series
Melanie Craig / Jane Hawkins
Hawaiian Eye
1959-1963
TV Series
Nora Cobinder / Laura Steck / Della Kandinsky / ...