Margaret Hayes

Margaret Hayes

Born Florette Regina Ottenheimer
(1916-12-05)December 5, 1916
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died January 26, 1977(1977-01-26) (aged 60)
Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Cause of death liver cancer and hepatitis
Nationality American
Other names Margaret Hayes
Dana Dale
Dana Edwards[1]
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University
Occupation Actress
Years active 1939–1964
Home town Baltimore, Maryland
Spouse(s) Leif Erickson (1942-1942) (divorced)
Herbert B. Swope Jr. (1947 - 1973) (divorced) (2 children)
Children Tracy Brooks Swope
Herbert Swope III

Margaret Hayes (born Florette Regina Ottenheimer; December 5, 1916 – January 26, 1977) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

Early years

Hayes was born in Baltimore, Maryland (some sources say Pottsville, Pennsylvania[2]). Her father was Jack Lewis Ottenheimer, a "musician, theatrical man and joke book writer."[3] (Some sources say that he was a real estate broker.[4]) While a student at Forest Park High School,[5] she joined the Emerson Cook Stock Company to gain more acting experience.[3] She entered Johns Hopkins University to become a nurse, but stuck to her dramatic ambitions. At the school, she joined "The Barnstormers", a theatrical organization, becoming the first female member of that group.[3]

Changing names

Using the name Dana Dale, Hayes found work as a model, "featured in the best cigarette, auto and fashion advertisements.[1] Her screen test for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was unsuccessful, but she received a movie contract anyway. Publicists at her studio recommended Dana Edwards as a better name for movies, so she began using it. Eventually, she changed to Margaret Hayes for public purposes and Maggie Hayes to her friends.[1]

Film

Hayes' initial contract was with Warner Bros.. Having little success there, she signed with Paramount Pictures.[2]

Hayes was often billed as Maggie Hayes in her film credits. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Judby Hammond in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, which starred Glenn Ford. In 1956, she guest-starred as Dora Hand in three episodes of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. She appeared in the episode "The San Saba Incident" (October 18, 1957) of Trackdown, playing a female convict, named Abby Lindon.[6]

Hayes' films included The Glass Key, Sullivan's Travels and Good Day for a Hanging. In 1958, in the film Damn Citizen, Hayes played opposite Keith Andes in the role of a real person, Dorothy Maguire Grevemberg, the wife of the crusading Louisiana State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg. She made four guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason. In 1961, she portrayed the part of Mrs. North in the episode "Incident of the Night on the Town" on CBS"s Rawhide.[7]

Journalism

After marrying Herbert Bayard Swope in 1946, Hayes temporarily retired from acting and turned to journalism, eventually becoming assistant fashion editor for Life magazine.[8]

Radio

In her later years, Hayes lived in Palm Beach, Florida, and was the host of a daily radio talk show[8] on WPBR.[9]

Personal life

She had one child, a daughter Nan, born in 1937, from her brief first marriage. She subsequently married actor Leif Erickson on June 12, 1942,[4] eloping with him to Minden, Nevada. They separated 28 days later, and Hayes received a divorce on October 2, 1942.[10] She married a third time, to producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., in 1947. The couple had a daughter, Tracy Brooks Swope, who is also an actress. She and Swope divorced in 1973.[7]

Death

Hayes died January 25, 1977, aged 60, in Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute[8] in Miami Beach, Florida from liver cancer and hepatitis.[7]

Partial filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Saga of Dana Dale, Margaret Hayes, Fleurette Ottenheimer". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 11, 1945. p. 24. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 Harrison, Paul. "Margaret Hayes--She Didn't Even Know Her Own Name" (September 15, 1941). The Times Recorder. p. 11. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 "Margaret Decides To Stay Miss Hayes". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 14, 1943. p. 31.
  4. 1 2 "Star, Actress Wed". The Circleville Herald. June 13, 1942. p. 1. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Margaret Hayes" (PDF). 41 (1). December 1953: 85. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 105-06
  7. 1 2 3 Margaret Hayes at the Internet Movie Database
  8. 1 2 3 "Margaret Hayes, actress, is dead". Tucson Daily Citizen. January 28, 1977. p. 12. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Actress Margaret Hayes of TV, films succumbs at 61". Valley News. January 30, 1977. p. 45. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Good Actor, Poor Hubby, Says Wife". Medford Mail Tribune. October 2, 1942. p. 9. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Walker, Paul (March 20, 1942). "Dime Novel Action in New Colonial Film; "Valley of Sun" Due at Senate Tomorrow". Harrisburg Telegraph. p. 21. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "(Orpheum ad)". The Havre Daily News. March 12, 1943. p. 5. Retrieved August 30, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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