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Titian-haired Margaret 'Maggie' Hayes was born Florette Regina Ottenheimer in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Jacob 'Jack' Louis Ottenheimer (1882-1943) and Clara Bussy (1877-1966). While still at high school she worked with a local stock company to get into acting. She then studied for two years at John Hopkins University, briefly entertaining the notion of becoming a nurse. Before long, however, she had joined The Barnstormers troupe of performers to become their first ever female member. A trip to New York and a night at the Stork Club resulted in a chance encounter with several prominent newspaper columnists who were also in attendance, among them Walter Winchell. Winchell decided to change her name to 'Dana Dale'. Using this moniker, she did some modelling and auditioned unsuccessfully for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). At this time, she was featured in several cigarette, automobile and fashion advertisements.

After a brief stint at Warner Brothers, and having finally settled on the stage name Maggie Hayes, she made her Broadway debut in 1940 and was signed by Paramount the following year. On screen, Maggie tended to be cast as second leads, often as 'the other woman', but was never quite fulfilled in her profession. Instead, she pursued diverse other career paths outside of acting, both in between performing and after her retirement in 1962: as fashion designer, model, owner of a boutique in Palm Beach and designing/selling jewelry in New York. She even worked for a while as a public relations executive for luxury goods department store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. In the late 1940s, she became fashion editor for 'Life Magazine', before returning to the New York stage and acting in television where she had some of her best roles.

Maggie Hayes was married (and divorced) three times. Her second husband was the actor Leif Erickson (of The High Chaparral (1967) fame), her third the producer Herbert B. Swope Jr..

(1945) Stage: Appeared in &quot;Happily Ever After&quot; on Broadway.

(1945) Stage: Appeared (as &quot;Jo&quot;) in &quot;Little Women&quot; on Broadway. Drama (revival). Book adapted by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0208419/?ref_=nmwrk">Marian De Forest</a>. Based on the novel by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0017301/?ref_=nmwrk">Louisa May Alcott</a>. Directed / produced by Frank McCoy. City Center: 23 Dec 1945-5 Jan 1946 (16 performances). Cast: Richard Camp (as &quot;Laurie&quot;), <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0235665/?ref_=nmwrk">Harrison Dowd</a> (as &quot;Mr. Lawrence&quot;), <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0239915/?ref_=nmwrk">Dortha Duckworth</a> (as &quot;Beth&quot;), <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0367531/?ref_=nmwrk">Georgia Harvey</a> (as &quot;Hannah Mullett&quot;), David Lewis (as &quot;Mr. March&quot;), Jack Lorenz (as &quot;Prof. Frederich Bhaer&quot;), <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0590013/?ref_=nmwrk">Grace Mills</a> (credited as Grace Mills; as &quot;Aunt March&quot;), Velma Royton (as &quot;Mrs. March&quot;), <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0835083/?ref_=nmwrk">Gloria Stroock</a> (as &quot;Meg&quot;), Billie Lou Watt (as &quot;Amy&quot;), Clark Williams (as &quot;John Brooke&quot;).

(1962) Stage: Appeared in &quot;Step on a Crack&quot; on Broadway.

(1962) Stage: Appeared in &quot;Fair Game for Lovers&quot; on Broadway

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