Dina Merrill

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dina Merrill (1968)
Dina Merrill (1999)
Dina Merrill with Bobby Short and Dick Sheridan (1970)

Dina Merrill , actually Nedenia Marjorie Hutton (born December 29, 1923 in New York - † May 22, 2017 in East Hampton, New York ), was an American actress and entrepreneur .

Life

Dina Merrill was the third daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post , who owned the Post Cereals (later General Foods and then Kraft Foods Group ) one of America's richest women. Her father was the stockbroker Edward Francis Hutton , founder of the finance firm EF Hutton. The two half-sisters Adelaide and Eleanor Post Hutton were from their mother's first marriage. Before college, she went to Miss Porter's School .

She was married three times. In 1946 she married the Colgate Palmolive heir Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. Their children were Stanley Hutton Rumbough, David Post Rumbough (1950-1973) and Nedenia "Nina" Colgate Rumbough. The marriage ended in divorce in 1966. In the same year Merrill married the American actor Cliff Robertson . Her daughter was Heather Merriweather Robertson (1969-2007). That marriage ended in divorce in 1986. In 1989 she married former actor Ted Hartley .

Dina Merrill had six grandchildren: Denia and Welyn Craig, David Colgate (Cole), Allegra Hutton, Siena Post and Kiera Basten Rumbough. She died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 93 in East Hampton, New York.

Functions in organizations and companies

Merrill became a member of the board of directors of his father's company, EF Hutton, in 1980, and when it was taken over by Lehman Brothers , she became a board member there for over 18 years. This was part of the compensation in the takeover, as was a sizeable portion of Lehman's stock. She also chaired the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and was a member of the Bank's Compensation and Benefits Committee . She has served on the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Foundation, and Vice President of the New York City Mission Society .

The film production company RKO / Six Flags Entertainment Inc.  - a legal successor to the traditional Hollywood studio RKO Pictures  - was practically on the verge of collapse at the end of the 1980s. Merrill and her husband Ted Hartley bought the company in 1989, renamed it RKO Pictures LLC, and saved the company from bankruptcy. In the meantime film production has resumed.

Acting career

Merrill starred in numerous television productions in 22 films. She played alongside Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy ( A woman who knows everything , 1957), Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum ( The Endless Horizon , 1960), Bob Hope (Take Sweden) , Burt Lancaster (The Young Savages) , Mickey Rooney (A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed) , Cary Grant and Tony Curtis ( Company Petticoat ) , Elizabeth Taylor ( Phone Butterfield 8 ) and Whoopi Goldberg ( The Player , 1992).

She appeared frequently on television in the 1960s. She worked as executive producer in the production of the movie Milk & Money (1996) .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1955: Four Star Playhouse (TV series, episode A Place Full of Strangers )
  • 1957: A Woman Who Knows Everything (Desk Set)
  • 1958: A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
  • 1959: Catch Me If You Can
  • 1959: Nobody leaves the ship (Don't Give Up the Ship)
  • 1959: Petticoat Company (Operation Petticoat)
  • 1960: Butterfield 8 telephone (Butterfield 8)
  • 1960: The Endless Horizon (The Sundowners)
  • 1961: The Wild Ones (The Young Savages)
  • 1961: Twenty Plus Two
  • 1961: Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
  • 1962: The Expendables
  • 1963: Father is not married (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
  • 1965: Sweden - just for love (I'll Take Sweden)
  • 1968: The Sunshine Patriot
  • 1969: Seven in Darkness
  • 1969: The Lonely Profession
  • 1970: Aru heishi no kake
  • 1971: Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
  • 1972: Start into the Unknown (Family Flight)
  • 1973: The Letters
  • 1973: The Untamed (Running Wild)
  • 1974: Throw Out the Anchor
  • 1975: The Meal
  • 1976: Kingston
  • 1977: I am the greatest (The Greatest)
  • 1978: The Wedding (A Wedding)
  • 1979: Roots: The Next Generations
  • 1979: The Tenth Month
  • 1980: Just Tell Me What You Want
  • 1983: The Brass Ring
  • 1983: Anna to the Infinite Power
  • 1984: Hot Pursuit
  • 1986: The Babysitter Killer (Twisted)
  • 1988: Caddyshack II
  • 1989: Turn Back the Clock
  • 1990: Fear
  • 1991: The Price of Power (True Colors)
  • 1992: The Player
  • 1993: Abused (Not in My Family)
  • 1993: Suture
  • 1995: Point of Betrayal
  • 1995: Open Season
  • 1996: Milk & Money
  • 1997: Something Borrowed, Something Blue
  • 1998: A Chance of Snow
  • 1998: Mighty Joe Young
  • 1999: The Other Sister
  • 2002: The Magnificent Ambersons
  • 2002: The Glow: Appearances are deceptive
  • 2003: Shade
  • 2009: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)

Awards

  • 1961: Golden Laurel : Fifth place in the Best Supporting Actress category for Telephone Butterfield 8
  • 1998: Hamptons International Film Festival: Special award (shared with husband Ted Hartley) for her support for screenwriters in developing countries

Web links

Commons : Dina Merrill  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marjorie Merriweather Post - Family. ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: hillwoodmuseum.org , accessed May 23, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hillwoodmuseum.org
  2. ^ Deaths: Robertson, Heather Merriweather. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, May 2, 2007, accessed May 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com , accessed on May 23, 2017 (English)
  4. ↑ Aljean Harmetz: Dina Merrill, Actress and Philanthropist, this at 93. In: The New York Times . The New York Times Company, May 22, 2017, accessed May 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Merrill, Dina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutton, Nedenia Marjorie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2017
Place of death East Hampton , New York , United States