Maggie McNamara
Maggie McNamara (
June 18,
1928 -
February 18,
1978) was an American actress. Born in
New York City, she began her acting career on the stage. She starred in the national company of
The Moon Is Blue for eightteen months, before debuting on
Broadway in
The King of Friday's Men. She went to
Hollywood when
Otto Preminger cast her in the lead of his film version of
The Moon is Blue, and she garnered a nomination for the
Academy Award for Best Actress.
McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain. But she only made two more films, and, at at the time of her death, from an overdose of sleeping pills, she was supporting herself as a typist.
In the early 1960s, She starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Ring-a-Ding Girl.