Marjorie Steele

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Marjorie Steele (born August 27, 1930 in Reno , Nevada , † January 20, 2018 in Dublin ) was an Irish actress and sculptor.

Life

Steele took acting classes in Hollywood as a teenager and made a living selling cigarettes at Ciro's nightclub on Sunset Boulevard . There she met the multimillionaire Huntington Hartford , the co-owner of A&P . Hartford, who also owned a film company, married Steele in 1949 and got her an acting contract. She played in a total of four B-Movies between 1949 and 1953 and had two guest appearances in television series. In 1954 she appeared in London as the leading actress in a production of Sabrina Fair , in 1956 she made her Broadway debut in The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , where she played the lead role of Barbara Bel Geddes . The performing theater belonged to her husband.

She had two children with Hartford and the marriage broke up in 1961. Two years later she married the British actor Dudley Sutton , and this marriage, which lasted only two years, also had a child. In 1967 she married the Irish writer Constantine Fitzgibbon . The marriage lasted until his death in 1983, and she also has a child from this marriage. She also took Irish citizenship.

Filmography (selection)

Movie

  • 1949: Cowboy gangster
  • 1949: Hello Out There
  • 1952: Face to Face
  • 1953: No Escape

watch TV

  • 1951: Fireside Theater
  • 1952: Martin Kane, Private Eye

Broadway

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/film-star-and-sculptor-who-became-an-irish-citizen-1.3445652
  2. ↑ Sarasota Journal, April 11 1957 , Google News (English)
personal data
SURNAME Steele, Marjorie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actress and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Reno , Nevada , United States
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2018
Place of death Dublin , Ireland