Today is the birthday of Mary Murphy who was born on January 26, 1931, in Washington, DC. After leaving school Murphy took a job as a gift wrapper at Saks Fifth Avenue, in Beverly Hills, where she was approached by producer Milton Lewis, head of talent for Paramount Pictures, who offered her a screen test. She was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in 1951.
Murphy first gained attention in 1953, when she played a girl who is intrigued by Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, and with Dale Robertson in Sitting Bull, and the year after that as the daughter of Fredric March in the thriller The Desperate Hours, which also starred Humphrey Bogart.
She made many television appearances: Perry Mason, The Tab Hunter Show, Wagon Train, I Spy, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, Ironside. and The Lloyd Bridges Show.
Murphey married actor Dale Robertson in Yuma, Arizona in 1956 but the marriage was annulled after six months. She died on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old.
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