Marian McCargo
Marian McCargo Bell (March 18, 1932 – April 7, 2004) was a former tennis champ who later found success in film and television. (She was sometimes credited as "Marian Moses", particularly in her earlier T.V. and film appearances.)
Born in Pittsburgh, McCargo attended Boston's West Hills College before winning the tennis Wightman Cup. She defeated Mo Connolly at Forest Hills in 1950, then later won the State Senior Tennis Championship in doubles.
In 1951, she married Richard Cantrell Moses, who later became an advertising executive in Los Angeles. They had four sons. Graham Moses, actor William R. Moses, director Harry Moses, and actor Rick Moses.
McCargo first entered acting as a supporting player on such popular television shows as Perry Mason, Hawaii Five-O, Hogan's Heroes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mannix, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
She made her feature film debut in the crime comedy Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) which also the debut film of Harrison Ford. Roles in Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) playing opposite Peter Lawford and also with Gina Lollobridgida, Shelley Winters, Telly Savales, and Phil Silvers, The Undefeated (with John Wayne and Rock Hudson) and Doctors' Wives followed in 1970. McCargo also became known for her role as Harriet Roberts on the nighttime soap Falcon Crest.
She divorced Moses in 1963. In 1970, she married U.S. Congressman Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr. of California, a widower with three sons of his own. McCargo retired from acting to become a political wife.[1] Using the married name Marian McCargo Bell, she was active politically during his eight-term congressional career and campaigned for her husband, including during his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1976.
She died of pancreatic cancer in 2004 in Santa Monica, California.
[edit] References
- ^ Alphonzo Bell, The Bel Air Kid, Trafford Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55369-378-9
