Miriam Seegar(1907-2011)

She and her husband, director Tim Whelan, had two sons. Tim Whelan Jr. and Michael, the latter born with Down's Syndrome. Her husband died in 1957 and, tragically, both sons died within a span of nine months of each other in 1997. She has two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

[about shooting The Dawn Trail (1930)] There was a scene in the picture that was very scary. I was scared to death. The cattle stampeded--and they were to go around us. I had the right to refuse, because this was dangerous, but I didn't. I was in the ditch while, offscreen, cowboys on horses would turn the cattle away, just as they were coming to the ditch! They didn't go over me, but if they had missed one cow, that would have been it!