Myrna Fahey
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Myrna Fahey in The Fall of the House of Usher
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| Born |
March 12, 1933 Carmel, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 1973 (aged 40) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1954–1973 |
Myrna Fahey (March 12, 1933 – May 6, 1973) was an American actress best known for her role as Maria Crespo in Walt Disney's Zorro and as Madeline Usher in the film version of Edgar Allan Poe's, The Fall of the House of Usher.
She appeared in episodes of 37 television series from the 1950s into the 1970s, including Bonanza, Wagon Train, Straightaway, The Time Tunnel, Maverick, Laramie, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Adventures of Superman, Kraft Suspense Theatre, Daniel Boone and Batman.
Fahey was born in Carmel, Maine, near Bangor in 1933, and grew up in Southwest Harbor near Bar Harbor, Maine, where she was a cheerleader at Pemetic High School. She began competing in local beauty pageants in the early 1950s. She acted one season at the Pasadena Playhouse before breaking into TV, and became an avid skier in California. She invested in stocks and one of her contracts stipulated that she have a stock ticker in her dressing room. Besides baseball player Joe DiMaggio, she also dated actor George Hamilton. She died on May 6, 1973, at age 40 at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California, after a long battle with cancer. She is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Bangor.
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