Dina Merrill

. She was typecast in similar roles, and in 1955, plagued by ill health, she committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates in her apartment in New York. A corporate remnant named RKO Pictures was purchased by Merrill and Ted Hartley in 1989 with a plan to resurrect it as a motion picture production company. Ona Munson’s career was stalemated by the acclaim of GWTW. Her second husband (of three) was the American actor Cliff Robertson (married 1966, divorced 1986). Tallulah Bankhead refused the role as too small. Hutton and Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, her first film was Desk Set (1957), in which she played Sylvia Blair, one of the researchers whose supervisor was Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn). Early on, Selznick had announced Mae West was to play Belle, but this was of course a publicity stunt.

The daughter of Wall Street wizard Edward F. The needed look for Belle could be created in the wardrobe and makeup departments. Nedinia Hutton Rumbough Robertson Hartley (born 9 December 1925) is a United States actress known as Dina Merrill. She spoke deep and throaty in her test, and her voice conveyed sexiness and worldliness. But her skills as an actress electrified her screen test: it was all in the voice. She was the antithesis of the voluptuous Belle: tall, freckled, and of slight build.

She introduced the song "You're the Cream In My Coffee," to New York audiences. 1955) Ona Munson was an improbable choice to play the whiskey-voiced prostitute with a heart of gold, Belle Watling, in "Gone With the Wind." Born Ona Wolcott in Portland, Oregon in 1903, she first came to fame on Broadway as the singing and dancing ingenue in the original production of "No, No, Nanette." She had a very successful stage and radio career in the 1930’s in New York. 1903, d. ONA MUNSON (American actress, b.