Margaret Field
Margaret Field ( born May 10, 1922 in Houston, Texas, † November 6, 2011 in Malibu, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Margaret Field was born Margaret Morlan in Houston, Texas. During the Second World War she moved to Pasadena, California. She studied voice training and acting at the Pasadena Junior College. During her college days she was approached by a talent Count Milton Lewis and taken after a successful screen test for Paramount Pictures for an initial 18 months contract. Private lessons she received from the actor Charles Laughton.
She played at Paramount since the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, almost exclusively supporting roles and bit parts; often it was not even mentioned in the credits. Roles of this kind she had, among other things as a secretary in the thriller game with death (1948 ), or as a woman in the temple in the epic film Samson and Delilah (1949 ). Directed by Michael Curtiz, she played the role of Sally Rogers, sister of the title character in the comedy The Story of Will Rogers ( 1952).
In the early 1950s she took over the lead roles in two science fiction films: Enid Elliott in The Man from Planet X ( 1951) and Ruth in Captive Women ( 1952). In the cult classic The Man from Planet X, she embodied directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, the daughter of the scientist Professor Elliott, who has discovered a new planet that approaches with high speed of the earth.
She also had episodic and guest roles in numerous American television series, including Wagon Train (1958 ), Department M ( 1958), Yancy Derringer (1958), Perry Mason (1959, 1960), Lawman (1961 ), Amazing Stories ( 1963), Bonanza (1966 ), It Takes a Thief (1968) and My Three Sons (1969).
In the 1970s, Field retired from the film business and acting.
Private
Field was married twice. In 1942 she married the U.S. officer Richard Dryden Field; the marriage was divorced in 1950. A son, Richard Field, and a daughter, the actress Sally Field: From this marriage two children come. His second wife Field from 1952 to 1968 with actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney was married. She joined since then under the name of Margaret Mahoney. This marriage had produced a daughter, the actress and director Princess O'Mahoney.
Field died on 6 November 2011 at the age of 89 at her home in Malibu at the consequences of their cancer, which she suffered for over six years.