Mary Healy is a retired American

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 actress, singer, and variety entertainer born in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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. The former Miss New Orleans beauty pageant winner, whose first major screen role was in Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle (1939 film)

Second Fiddle is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee and Lyle Talbot. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. A Hollywood publicity agent falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film parodies the...

(1939

1939 in film

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), was married to fellow entertainer Peter Lind Hayes

Peter Lind Hayes

Peter Lind Hayes was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. He was born Joseph Conrad Lind in San Francisco, California....

 from 1940 until his death in 1998. With few exceptions, most notably her role in Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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' 1958 Broadway production of Around the World in 80 Days, she and her husband worked together exclusively. Among their joint ventures were the 1953 cult fantasy film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

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, the 1958 Broadway comedy Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?, and the 1960 NBC

NBC

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 situation comedy Peter Loves Mary, where they portrayed a show business couple with two children who attempt to adjust to the culture shock of a move from New York City to the suburbs. The show ran one season. In addition, the couple were regular substitute hosts on Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey

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's television programs.

Healy and Hayes were the parents of two children: a son, Peter Michael Hayes, and a daughter, actress Cathy Lind Hayes.

Selected filmography

• Second Fiddle
  Second Fiddle (1939 film)
  Second Fiddle is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee and Lyle Talbot. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. A Hollywood publicity agent falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film parodies the...
  
  (1939)
• Star Dust (1940 film)|Star Dust (1940)
• Zis Boom Bah (1941, with Peter Lind Hayes and his mother Grace Hayes)
• Strictly in the Groove (1942)
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953, with Peter Lind Hayes)

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