Marilyn Jeanne McGuire (February 22, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress and

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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

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. Her other films include '' Higher and Higher'' (1944, starring Frank Sinatra), '' Career Girl'' (1944), ''

Seven Days Ashore ''Seven Days Ashore'' is a 1944 American comedy film directed by John H. Auer and written by Edward Verdier, Irving Phillips and Lawrence Kimble. The film stars Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Virginia Mayo, Elaine Shepard, Gordon Oliv ...

'' (1944), ''

It Happened in Brooklyn ''It Happened in Brooklyn'' is a 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford and Jimmy Durante, and featuring Gloria Grahame and Marcy McGuire. ''It ...

'' (1947) and '' You Gotta Stay Happy'' (1948). Her penultimate film before retiring from Hollywood was ''

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'' (1952), with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She also had a minor uncredited role in

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's '' Summer Magic'' (1963) as a young maid named Ellen by putting on an

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accent before her permanent retirement. McGuire was married to actor

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from 1947 until his death in 2015. The couple had two children. She died in

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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.

Filmography

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Marcy McGuire
at the American Film Institute 1926 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women American film actresses American women singers RKO Pictures contract players Actresses from Kansas City, Kansas {{US-film-actor-1920s-stub