Long before Paris Hilton and reality TV heroines, some press gleefully bent on Chagrin some stars better known for their rowdy antics for their films.
The adventures of the blonde pinup Mary Mc Donald even often been recorded in the French press, while very few of his films have been exploited here.
Born in 1923 in Kentucky, Mary McDonald went to New York with his parents at the age of 15. Her mother, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl of his dream girl kiss in turn for "artistic". . Listed on all beauty contests, she won all the awards including that of Miss New York.
With such a passport, the beautiful does not hurt to get hired as a girl in the journals of George White
. En route to Hollywood, Mary harder to get noticed. 20th century Fox does not respond to his trial ends and is shooting spree Melody lane because it does not at all satisfactory. She even tried to turn back when at a gala at the Hollywood Bowl, the famous bandleader Tommy Dorsey's remark incidentally when she sings a few snatches of songs while dancing: seduced by his voice and his physical he offers him a place in his training. The Universal studios, suggested he replace Maria Montez, in the comedy series b "two idiots on an island" with the popular duo Abbott and Costello. Advertising Launches Marie faded blonde, decked out in the nickname ridiculous "the body" which will continue throughout his modest career.
If Mary gets several minor roles including Eve began one of the biggest hits of Deanna Durbin, the fairy with white skater Sonja Henie (in which she provides a service quite acceptable), it offers him the head of shows that in most productions p
MALL budget.
If the blonde star can not be proud of her filmography, she manages to capture public attention by posing in countless magazines in swimsuits, Deventer and a pin-up's most popular soldiers. His love life extremely agitated also earned him many columns in the tabloids. she manages to set aside his marriage with an athlete who continued to have sex with his wife earlier and had offered him a covenant of pure fake. His connection with Bruce Cabot, the gangster Bugsy Siegel or his marriage to the king of the shoe are talking Harry Karl.
Attracted by the advertising potential of this star best known for his pranks and his buxom figure for his talents as an actress, Louis B Mayer, head of MGM and womanizer offered him a role alongside Gene Kelly in Living in A Big Way (1947) by Gregory La Cava, which remains one of the lesser known films of the dancer (he is However, sometimes rebroadcast on TCM). This innocuous little film retains most attention for very nice numbers in Kelly with children or a dog, choreographed with the help of Stanley Donen (and seems you added at the last moment to try to film the improve). Mary defends the role of ingenue unfortunately without any consistency and
e with Gene a number that is very reminiscent of those couples Astaire and Rogers. The shooting did not go very well, the famous dancer apprehensive of playing with a lady who can not play or dance or sing "(which is unfair) imposed by the owner of the studio for personal reasons. The ambitious actress did not appreciate at all that his solo dance number was cut off and even paid 14,000 dollars to be freed from his contract with the firm of a lion. It was not at all a good calculation, because the star will have the greatest difficulty in finding a job afterwards, especially since the film will have no success. Harry Cohn who planned to give him the lead role of Born yestarday, he prefers to Judy Holliday. She will console playing the role on stage.
After three films (including a rather dismal musical called hit parade of 1951 which gives him the opportunity to sing ballads), the actress is still a few roles on television while continuing to talk about it in newspapers. In 1954, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, she stamps several cars in a parking lot. On leaving police custody, she will claim to have been buffeted by forces
order. In 1957, the star is kidnapped. Two men (one black and one Mexican) allegedly kidnapped, drugged and raped, before the kidnap, in an unknown location and then abandoned along a road in the desert, just wearing a nightie. The FBI and the press immediately made the biggest doubts about this incident reminiscent of a "bluff advertising" of an actress in search of fame and even a mental disorder.
The stunt did however put the star into the light: she plays the kid in a kimono with Jerry Lewis, a 33 rpm records for RCA (quite nice) and gave a series of turns singing in night clubs. She flirts with Orson Welles, Eddie Fisher and Michael Wilding, married again several times "husbands are easier to find than good impresarios
" to use his words and fell into alcohol and drugs to forget his worries. In 1962, a victim of a severe nervous breakdown, she was interned in an asylum in Australia from where she escaped after a few days! In 1963, with the support of her new husband, producer Donald Taylor, Mamie van Doren, replacing the dismal Promises promised comedy winded and not at all funny when Jayne Mansfield is shown naked in some scenes of anthology (which will be worth to turnip promoted by Playboy magazine to be banned in several states).
In 1965, Marie McDonald was found dead of an overdose. Her husband, questioned by the police, committed suicide shortly thereafter. Was it a accident or suicide? We will never know really. Celebrity
Mary Mc Donald relies more on its scandals as a real talent, it will fall quickly into oblivion. A U.S. site dedicated to him
The adventures of the blonde pinup Mary Mc Donald even often been recorded in the French press, while very few of his films have been exploited here.
Born in 1923 in Kentucky, Mary McDonald went to New York with his parents at the age of 15. Her mother, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl of his dream girl kiss in turn for "artistic". . Listed on all beauty contests, she won all the awards including that of Miss New York.
With such a passport, the beautiful does not hurt to get hired as a girl in the journals of George White
. En route to Hollywood, Mary harder to get noticed. 20th century Fox does not respond to his trial ends and is shooting spree Melody lane because it does not at all satisfactory. She even tried to turn back when at a gala at the Hollywood Bowl, the famous bandleader Tommy Dorsey's remark incidentally when she sings a few snatches of songs while dancing: seduced by his voice and his physical he offers him a place in his training. The Universal studios, suggested he replace Maria Montez, in the comedy series b "two idiots on an island" with the popular duo Abbott and Costello. Advertising Launches Marie faded blonde, decked out in the nickname ridiculous "the body" which will continue throughout his modest career. If Mary gets several minor roles including Eve began one of the biggest hits of Deanna Durbin, the fairy with white skater Sonja Henie (in which she provides a service quite acceptable), it offers him the head of shows that in most productions p
MALL budget. If the blonde star can not be proud of her filmography, she manages to capture public attention by posing in countless magazines in swimsuits, Deventer and a pin-up's most popular soldiers. His love life extremely agitated also earned him many columns in the tabloids. she manages to set aside his marriage with an athlete who continued to have sex with his wife earlier and had offered him a covenant of pure fake. His connection with Bruce Cabot, the gangster Bugsy Siegel or his marriage to the king of the shoe are talking Harry Karl.
Attracted by the advertising potential of this star best known for his pranks and his buxom figure for his talents as an actress, Louis B Mayer, head of MGM and womanizer offered him a role alongside Gene Kelly in Living in A Big Way (1947) by Gregory La Cava, which remains one of the lesser known films of the dancer (he is However, sometimes rebroadcast on TCM). This innocuous little film retains most attention for very nice numbers in Kelly with children or a dog, choreographed with the help of Stanley Donen (and seems you added at the last moment to try to film the improve). Mary defends the role of ingenue unfortunately without any consistency and
e with Gene a number that is very reminiscent of those couples Astaire and Rogers. The shooting did not go very well, the famous dancer apprehensive of playing with a lady who can not play or dance or sing "(which is unfair) imposed by the owner of the studio for personal reasons. The ambitious actress did not appreciate at all that his solo dance number was cut off and even paid 14,000 dollars to be freed from his contract with the firm of a lion. It was not at all a good calculation, because the star will have the greatest difficulty in finding a job afterwards, especially since the film will have no success. Harry Cohn who planned to give him the lead role of Born yestarday, he prefers to Judy Holliday. She will console playing the role on stage. After three films (including a rather dismal musical called hit parade of 1951 which gives him the opportunity to sing ballads), the actress is still a few roles on television while continuing to talk about it in newspapers. In 1954, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, she stamps several cars in a parking lot. On leaving police custody, she will claim to have been buffeted by forces
order. In 1957, the star is kidnapped. Two men (one black and one Mexican) allegedly kidnapped, drugged and raped, before the kidnap, in an unknown location and then abandoned along a road in the desert, just wearing a nightie. The FBI and the press immediately made the biggest doubts about this incident reminiscent of a "bluff advertising" of an actress in search of fame and even a mental disorder. The stunt did however put the star into the light: she plays the kid in a kimono with Jerry Lewis, a 33 rpm records for RCA (quite nice) and gave a series of turns singing in night clubs. She flirts with Orson Welles, Eddie Fisher and Michael Wilding, married again several times "husbands are easier to find than good impresarios
" to use his words and fell into alcohol and drugs to forget his worries. In 1962, a victim of a severe nervous breakdown, she was interned in an asylum in Australia from where she escaped after a few days! In 1963, with the support of her new husband, producer Donald Taylor, Mamie van Doren, replacing the dismal Promises promised comedy winded and not at all funny when Jayne Mansfield is shown naked in some scenes of anthology (which will be worth to turnip promoted by Playboy magazine to be banned in several states). In 1965, Marie McDonald was found dead of an overdose. Her husband, questioned by the police, committed suicide shortly thereafter. Was it a accident or suicide? We will never know really. Celebrity
Mary Mc Donald relies more on its scandals as a real talent, it will fall quickly into oblivion. A U.S. site dedicated to him
