1. Cecilia Parker was a Canadian-American film actress.
16 Facts About Cecilia Parker
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Cecilia Parker was best known for portraying Marian Hardy, the sister of Andy Hardy, in twelve films of the Andy Hardy series.
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Cecilia Parker was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada on April 26,1914, to parents Naudy Anna and Thomas J Parker.
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Cecilia Parker's father was from England, where he had served in the British Army.
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The family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was a child, and Parker graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in 1931.
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Cecilia Parker was selected from among a group of extras to attend the Fox Film studio training school for younger players.
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In November 1935, Cecilia Parker purchased a new home in Beverly Hills, California.
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Cecilia Parker was best known for playing Marian Hardy in the extremely popular Andy Hardy film series in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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Cecilia Parker was in the original Hardy film, A Family Affair, in 1937.
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Mickey Rooney played Andy Hardy in the series, supported by Lewis Stone, Fay Holden and Cecilia Parker portraying his family members, with Ann Rutherford as his sweetheart.
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Cecilia Parker's character appeared in 12 of the 16 films, and her romances were a recurring feature of the series.
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Cecilia Parker retired from acting after the film Andy Hardy's Double Life.
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Cecilia Parker made one last screen appearance, in a 1984 television adaptation of the novel Pudd'nhead Wilson, on the anthology series American Playhouse.
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Cecilia Parker's sister, Linda, was an actress who appeared in a number of uncredited roles in the early 1930s.
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Cecilia Parker was a close friend of actress Anne Shirley; during the mid-1930s the two kept a standing dinner date on Thursday nights.
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On July 25,1993, Cecilia Parker died age of 79, after what The New York Times called "a long illness".