Maggie McNamara

Maggie McNamara (June 18, 1928 - February 18, 1978) was an American actress. Born in New York City, she began her acting career on the stage. She starred in the national company of The Moon Is Blue for eighteen months, before debuting on Broadway in The King of Friday's Men. She went to Hollywood when Otto Preminger cast her in the lead of his film version of The Moon is Blue, and she garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain, but she only made two more films. At the time of her death from an overdose of sleeping pills, she was supporting herself as a typist.

In the early 1960s, She starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Ring-a-Ding Girl.


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In the early 1960s, She starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Ring-a-Ding Girl. The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. At the time of her death from an overdose of sleeping pills, she was supporting herself as a typist. Witnesses later recalled seeing several Gestapo officers entering her building shortly before her death. McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain, but she only made two more films. It has also been asserted that she was murdered by being thrown from the window by Gestapo officers. Born in New York City, she began her acting career on the stage. She starred in the national company of The Moon Is Blue for eighteen months, before debuting on Broadway in The King of Friday's Men. She went to Hollywood when Otto Preminger cast her in the lead of his film version of The Moon is Blue, and she garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Officially described as a suicide, it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with the Nazi leaders deteriorated due to her unwillingness to appear in propaganda films and more importantly to end her relationship with her Jewish lover.

Maggie McNamara (June 18, 1928 - February 18, 1978) was an American actress. When she died suddenly the German press revealed that she had died of epilepsy, however in later years it was discovered that she had died as a result of a fall from her hotel window. A meeting with Adolf Hitler in the mid 1930s resulted in Müller being offered parts in films that promoted Nazi ideals. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as the ideal Aryan woman, and particularly in light of Marlene Dietrich's move to Hollywood was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. She starred in more than 20 German films, including Viktor und Viktoria (1933), which was one of her biggest successes and which was remade as Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews.

A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day, and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody the fashionable Berlin society of her era. Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. Renate Müller (April 26, 1906 - October 1, 1937) was a German actress.