Maggie McNamara Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A former teen fashion model, Maggie McNamara first appeared on Broadway in 1951 when she took over Barbara Bel Geddes' role in The Moon Is Blue. She played the same role in the 1953 film version and became a star, earning an Oscar nomination in the process. With such an auspicious start...Read More

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Body in the Barn

Actors: Lillian Gish, Maggie McNamara, Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts, Kent Smith

Synopsis: There's no love lost between small-town busybody Bessie Carnby (Lillian Gish) and her neighbors Henry and Samantha Wilkins (Peter Lind Hayes, Patricia Cutts) -- nor does Bessie's daughter, Camilla (Maggie McNamara), make a secret of her dislike for the mousy Henry. Eventually, Bessie decides to Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: Ring-A-Ding Girl

Actors: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, Bing Russell, Hank Patterson

Synopsis: Famous for her collection of valuable rings, movie star Bunny Blake (Maggie McNamara) is inexorably drawn back to her home town by an unusual ring which seems to talk to her. Upon her arrival, Bunny continues heeding the messages conveyed by the ring, and in so doing averts a tragedy -- for Read More

1963
The Cardinal

Actors: Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Dorothy Gish, Romy Schneider, Maggie McNamara, John Huston, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from Monsignor to the College of Cardinals, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) must undergo several grueling life experiences: standing up to bigots in Georgia, defying Nazis in Read More

1963
Prince of Players

Actors: Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players. Richard Burton stars as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes Booth (John Derek) assassinates Abraham Lincoln. Read More

1955
Three Coins in the Fountain

Actors: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara

Synopsis: Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the Fountain offers the splendors of Rome in Technicolor, CinemaScope and Stereophonic Sounds. For all its lovely picture-postcard images, the film is at base a reworking of 20th Read More

1954
The Moon Is Blue

Actors: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect (William Holden). Despite all sorts of temptations, the girl refuses the architect's invitation to become his mistress, holding out for marriage or nothing. Meanwhile, middle-aged Read More

1953