Dina Merrill

Dina Merrill ( born December 9, 1925 in New York City as Nedenia Marjorie Hutton ) is an American actress and film producer.

Life

Dina Merrill was the only daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post and Edward Francis Hutton. From the first marriage of her mother came, the two half-sisters Adelaide and Eleanor Post Hutton. Before college, she went to Miss Porter 's School.

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

Dina Merrill has six grandchildren: Denia and Welyn Craig, David Colgate ( Cole ), Allegra Hutton, Siena Post and Kiera Basten Rumbough.

Functions in organizations and companies

Merrill was the director of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, one of which she still has many shares today. She was also Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Bank 's Compensation and Benefits Committee. Representative of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. At the Eugene O'Neill Theater Foundation is itself a member of the Board of Trustees. She is Vice -President of the New York City Mission Society.

The film production company RKO / Six Flags Entertainment Inc. - a legal successor of the traditional Hollywood studio RKO Pictures - stood practically at the end of the 1980s before the corner. Merrill and her husband Ted Hartley bought the company in 1989, named them in RKO Pictures LLC and saved the company from bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the film production was resumed.

Works

Merrill played alongside numerous television productions in 22 movies with. They played among other things on the side of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy ( The Sundowners ), Bob Hope ( I'll Take Sweden), Burt Lancaster ( The Young Savages ), Mickey Rooney (A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed ), Cary Grant and Tony Curtis ( Operation Petticoat ), Elizabeth Taylor ( Butterfield 8) and Whoopi Goldberg ( The Player )

In the 1960s, she frequently appeared on television. Her debut as a producer was 1996, the movie Milk & Money.

Filmography ( as actress)

Awards

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