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12 Facts About Marjorie Fitzgibbon

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon was an Irish-American artist and actress.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon was born Marjorie Steele on 27 August 1930 in Reno, Nevada, United States.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon's parents were Jack, a salesman, and Ora Steele.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon met her first husband, Huntington Hartford, while working part-time as a cigarette girl in Ciro's Nightclub on Sunset Strip.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon was part of the Actors' Equity campaign to end segregation of union actors.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon bought her parents a ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon met her second husband, Dudley Sutton, marrying him in 1961.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon stopped acting, but socialised with her husband's colleagues from the theatre, including Joan Littlewood, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt and Richard Harris.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon created a statue of Eamon Andrews in the foyer of the RTE offices.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon was commissioned by the Royal Dublin Society to create a series of 12 busts of living Irish artists in the early 1970s.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon was awarded an honorary doctorate in Fine Art by Stonehill College, Massachusetts.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon had solo exhibitions at Wildenstein Gallery, Godolphin Gallery, Tom Caldwell Gallery in 1978, and the Grafton Gallery in 1985.