Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes (actually Mary Elizabeth Hughes, born November 13, 1919 in Alton, Illinois, USA, † August 27 1995 in Los Angeles ) was an American actress.
Life
Mary Beth Hughes ' mother divorced her husband when her daughter was a baby. Mary Beth began her acting career already at their high school in Washington and caught the attention of a theater owner. For him, she starred in classics such as Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1937 she graduated from high school and returned to the theater stage.
1938 Mary Beth moved with her mother to Los Angeles to enter the film industry there. You got after some time a contract with MGM. In 1940 she moved to 20th Century Fox. Until 1951, she turned almost 50 feature films, mostly B- movies. Her trademark was her platinum hair, even though she had naturally red hair. From 1949 she was working as a singer in nightclubs. In addition to singing, she turned increasingly to the television medium. From 1953 to 1955 she was for the station KTLA in Los Angeles " weather forecaster " She was until 1961, along with some excursions to the big screen as a guest star in the Abbott and Costello Show, and in the police report ( Dragnet ), Dr. Bill Baxter, a doctor in Arizona ( Frontier Doctor), Rin Tin TIn ( The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), The bounty Hunter ( Wanted: Dead or Alive ), The second man ( The Deputy ), and one thousand miles Staub ( Rawhide ) to see.
In 1961, Mary Beth Hughes worked as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgeon. Before the camera, it occurred only sporadically. In the early 1970s, however, she was seen in 11 episodes of the Red Skelton Show. In the late 1970s, she opened a beauty salon, but closed it a few years later and began working as a telephone saleswoman. These activities, she held until 1991.
Overall, Mary Beth Hughes was married five times. With the actor, Ted North, they had a son, Donald. On August 27, 1995 Mary Beth Hughes died in Los Angeles of natural causes.