Marcy McGuire
Actor
- Born
- February 22, 1926 · Kansas City, Kansas, USA
- Died
- August 7, 2021 (age 95)
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Marilyn Jeanne McGuire (February 22, 1926 – August 7, 2021), known professionally as Marcy McGuire, was an American actress and contralto singer who was active in the 1940s. She was born 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.
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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. 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 Irish maid named Ellen before she permanently retired.
McGuire was married to actor Wally Cassell from 1947 until his death in 2015. The couple had two children. 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.
Known for
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- 1963Summer Magic as Ellen (uncredited)
- 1952Jumping Jacks as Julia Loring
- 1948You Gotta Stay Happy as Georgia Goodrich
- 1947It Happened in Brooklyn as Rae Jakobi
- 1946Ding Dong Williams as Miss Angela Jones
- 1945Sing Your Way Home as Bridget Forrester
- 1944Seven Days Ashore as Dot Diamond
- 1944Career Girl as Louise
- 1943Higher and Higher as Mickey
- 1943Around the World
