Maggie McNamara

In the early 1960s, She starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone, The Ring-a-Ding Girl. 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. At the time of her death from an overdose of sleeping pills, she was supporting herself as a typist. Ona Munson’s career was stalemated by the acclaim of GWTW. McNamara's second film role was in Three Coins in the Fountain, but she only made two more films. Tallulah Bankhead refused the role as too small. 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. Early on, Selznick had announced Mae West was to play Belle, but this was of course a publicity stunt.

Maggie McNamara (June 18, 1928 - February 18, 1978) was an American actress. The needed look for Belle could be created in the wardrobe and makeup departments. 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.