Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez (née Skliris; April 7, 1922 – June 23, 2023), known by her stage name Margia Dean (name is pronounced as Mar-juh) was an American beauty queen and stage and screen actress of royal Greek descent, who had a career in Hollywood films from the 1940s until the early 1960s, appearing in 30 starring roles and 20 bit parts.
Dean made her feature film debut in Casanova in Burlesque (1944) and adopted her stage name, Margia Dean. Although never under contract to a studio, and worked variously at Republic Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures, but for the majority of films, were with both 20th Century Fox and some 16 in all, for Lippert Pictures under the producer Robert L. Lippert, and she became known as the Queen of Lippert. Her first leading role was in Shep Comes Home (1948) and roles followed in Red Desert (1949), FBI Girl (1951), The Lonesome Trail (1955), Villa!! (1958) and Seven Women from Hell (1961). Dean starred in a 1958 western, Ambush at Cimarron Pass, that featured Clint Eastwood in one of his earliest film roles. She also portrayed a trapeze artist in the 1961 circus tale The Big Show, which starred Esther Williams and Robert Vaughn. Her association with Lippert had led to her being cast in The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), aka The Creeping Unknown, the first Hammer horror film. Frustrated that her roles were predominantly in B movies, she eventually retired from acting following her marriage in 1965 to her second husband, architect Felipe Alvarez. Her final film was Moro Witch Doctor. She briefly became involved in movie production, creating '"Margo Productions" producing The Long Rope (1961) with Hugh Marlowe as well as a number of television pilots. Dean was later a vice-president in a real estate firm and worked in costume design and interior decoration. Dean died at her apartment in Rancho Cucamonga, California, on June 23, 2023, at the age of 101. -- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margia_Dean
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