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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 (movie)|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.