Mary Maguire

Mary Maguire was an Australianborn actress who briefly became a Hollywood and British film star in the late 1930s.

She was born Hlne Teresa Maguire in Melbourne, Australia, to Michael Mickey Maguire, footballer, racehorse owner, hotel proprietor, and former welterweight boxer and Mary Jane Maguire . Nicknamed Peggy by the family, she was the second of five sisters. She grew up in Melbourne and Brisbane, her father managing the famous Bull and Mouth Hotel in Bourke Street, Melbourne, and later the iconic Bellevue Hotel in Brisbane. In Melbourne she attended the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy. She began acting when she was cast in the film Heritage by director Charles Chauvel at the age of 16. Elsa Chauvel, in her 1973 memoirs, wrote This lovely child was brought to our notice by a Brisbane publicity man... fresh from a Queensland convent. Changing her name to Mary, Maguire then starred in The Flying Doctor, an AustralianBritish coproduction that was filmed in Australia by director Miles Mander and also starred American actor Charles Farrell.

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