1. Margaret Hayes entered Johns Hopkins University to become a nurse, but stuck to her dramatic ambitions.
10 Facts About Margaret Hayes
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Margaret Hayes was often billed as Maggie Margaret Hayes in her film credits.
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Margaret Hayes is perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated performance as schoolteacher Lois Judby Hammond in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.
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Margaret Hayes appeared in the episode "The San Saba Incident" of Trackdown, playing a female convict, named Abby Lindon.
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Margaret Hayes' films included The Glass Key, Sullivan's Travels, and Good Day for a Hanging.
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In 1958, in the film Damn Citizen, Margaret Hayes appeared opposite Keith Andes in the role of a real person, Dorothy Maguire Grevemberg, the wife of the crusading Louisiana State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg.
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Margaret Hayes made four guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, including as defendant Sybil Granger in 1957 episode "The Case of the Nervous Accomplice".
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Margaret Hayes co-starred on Tombstone Territory season 1 episode 24 'Cave-In' which aired March 26,1958.
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The couple divorced in 1939, and Margaret Hayes subsequently married actor Leif Erickson on June 12,1942, eloping with him to Minden, Nevada.
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On January 26,1977, aged 63, Margaret Hayes died of cancer in Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida.