Mary Healy (entertainer)
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April 14, 1918 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | February 3, 2015 (aged 96) Calabasas, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Stage, film, television actress |
| Years active | 1937–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Lind Hayes (m. 1940; d. 1998) |
| Children | Cathy Lind Hayes Peter Michael Hayes |
Mary Healy (April 14, 1918 – February 3, 2015) was an American actress, singer, and variety entertainer. She performed often with her husband, Peter Lind Hayes, for over 50 years, in a succession of films, television and radio shows and on the stage. Healy appeared in four Broadway shows between 1942 and 1958, and her film appearances include Second Fiddle, Star Dust and Theodore Geisel's musical fantasy, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. In 2006 she was inducted into the Nevada Entertainment/Artist Hall of Fame at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Mary Healy was born April 14, 1918, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Crowned Miss New Orleans in 1935, Healy performed as a singer in the New Orleans area. She made her first screen appearance in Josette (1938). In 1939 she had major film roles in Second Fiddle and Star Dust, in which she sang the title song.
That year she also met entertainer Peter Lind Hayes, who was performing in North Hollywood with his mother, vaudevillian Grace Hayes. Healy and Hayes were married from 1940 until his death in 1998. With few exceptions she and her husband worked together exclusively.
Healy made her stage debut in Count Me In (1942), opposite Charles Butterworth and Jean Arthur. She starred as Mrs. Aouda in Orson Welles's 1946 Broadway production of Around the World in 80 Days, a role that she would later reprise for the The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air radio adaptation of the musical play.
Healy was a member of the regular cast of Hayes's CBS-TV series, Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1949–50), a revue-style series that producer Arthur Schwartz based on his successful Broadway show, Inside U.S.A. Healy and Hayes were the first to sing the commercial jingle, "See the USA in Your Chevrolet", which later became a signature song for Dinah Shore.
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