Myrna Fahey

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Myrna Fahey (12 March 1933 - 6 May 1973) was an American actress most famous for her role as Maria Crespo in Walt Disney's Zorro, and her role as Madeline Usher in Edgar Allan Poe's, The Fall of the House of Usher. She was featured in an episode of Bonanza. Fahey also became the subject of death threats while dating Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnew Mental Hospital in San Francisco, who could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.

Some of Fahey's other television appearances included the CBS show "Marshall Dillon" in 1957, the episode entitled: Innocent Broad. "Marshall Dillon" was a half hour black and white show which later became "Gunsmoke". Cast: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake. She also played the leading role in a segment of Thriller (U.S. TV series) in 1960, entitled: Girl With A Secret, with a supporting cast that included Rhodes Reason, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Corby, Victor Buono, and series host Boris Karloff. In 1966, she played Blaze in the Batman episodes "True or False Face" and "Holy Rat Race" as the moll to False Face.

Fahey died on 6 May 1973 at age 40 at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California, after a long battle with cancer.

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