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Wally Cox and George Maharis in “Mister Peepers.” Episode: “The Wally Cox Story” (6/5/1955). Also featuring Tony Randall, Mae Barnes, and Mary McCarty.
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Wally Cox and George Maharis in “Mister Peepers.” Episode: “The Wally Cox Story” (6/5/1955). Also featuring Tony Randall, Mae Barnes, and Mary McCarty.
Mary McCarty (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 27 September 1923
RIP: 3 April 1980
Ethnicity: White - American
Occupation: Actress, singer, dancer, comedian
Note: Life partner of Margaret Lindsay
"Margaret Lindsay, who traveled around the country with lover Janet Gaynor and had comedienne Mary McCarty as a long-time lover, could not get parts in big-time movies despite her exceptional beauty because she refused "to play the game," though she was romantically linked [by studio publicity department] to Dick Powell [stricly heterosexual] and dated [strictly homosexuals] Liberace and Cesar Romero with every assurance that they would not even ask for a goodnight kiss."
-From Broken Face In The Mirror: Crooks and Fallen Stars That Look Very Much Like Us by David Hernandez
Jane Russell and Mary McCarty perform, “Any Gal From Texas” in the 3D musical, THE FRENCH LINE (1954).
‘What Hollywood Itself Is Talking About’ by Lynn Bowers (Screenland - August 1954)
MAY 8: Margaret Lindsay (1910-1981)
Most known for her work in films such as The House of the Seven Gables and Jezebel, the hit lesbian actress of the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret Lindsay, passed away on this day in 1981.
Between 1932 and 1948, Margaret appeared in a total on 75 films (x).
Margaret Kies was born on September 19, 1910 in Dubuque, Iowa. She was the oldest of her pharmacist father’s six children. Little is known about her early days except for the fact that “Peg,” as she was nicknamed, was a notorious tomboy; she loved to climb the pear trees around her neighborhood and was a “roller skating fiend.” Despite the fact that they had five other children to support, Margaret was able to convince her parents to send her to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City to study acting. By the age of 22, she had signed her first Hollywood contract and had changed her name to Margaret Lindsay.
One of the title screens from Fog Over Frisco reads “Margaret Lindsay as Val.” Released in 1934, Margaret appeared alongside Bette Davis in the popular Pre-Hayes Code film (x).
Throughout her career, Margaret starred in several successful B-Movies. She was a consistent background actress throughout the 1930s and worked alongside such big names as Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and Humphrey Bogart. She ultimately migrated to London and was able to have a robust career starring in stage plays thanks to her extraordinarily accurate British accent. In the 1950s and 60s, she began to take on roles in television, as TV shows began to increase in popularity. Margaret never married and spent the majority of her life with her partner Mary McCarty, who was a fellow actress and appeared in musical theater, television, and film roles as well. In their later years, the two lived together in Los Angeles until Mary’s death in 1980. Margaret passed away a year later at the age of 70.
-LC
Margaret Lindsay, pictured on the left, "remained stoically true to herself throughout her whole career in movies, never marrying to appease the studio or the public, and maintaining a lively and popular hangout for the closeted lesbians of Hollywood in her and her partner Mary McCarty’s bungalow. Rumoured to have been a long-time lover of Janet Gaynor, pictured on the right. The two appeared together in the film Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)."
