Marjie Millar

Marjie Millar (born Marjie Joy Miller; August 10, 1930 – April 16, 1966) was an American television and film actress.

Early years and education Millar was born to George W. When she was 4 years old she won "a Shirley Temple look-alike contest". (Another source says "a 1950 graduate of Stephens College". ) As a student at Stephens, Millar was a member of the staff of the college's radio station, and she participated in theatrical productions. While she lived at home, she was active in productions of the Tacoma Little Theater.

In 1946, she hosted a variety show for patients at Madigan Army Hospital at Ft. Lewis on the unique radio station for the hospital known as "Voice of Madigan".

Marriages Millar was married four times: to University of Missouri college student James Sidney Rollins Jr. (1950–195?); to photographer and television director John Florea (1955 to author and sportswriter John McCallum (1961–1963), whom she met when he was writing her biography, and to Lt. Commander Charles Candoo (USN).

While working in Los Angeles, she reunited and lived with her roommate from Stephens College, Boni Ann Buehler. Millar later assisted Buehler during her recovery after two limbs were amputated by a boat propeller (Beuhler was represented by Melvin Belli in the famous civil suit against Conrad Hilton).

Millar was the female lead

Injury and later life Injuries sustained in a 1957 auto accident on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, resulted in infection and gangrene of her left leg. After reporting to work on Dragnet she went back to her apartment but became too weak to lift the phone and was found by a neighbor who noticed several days' accumulation of milk bottles and newspapers. She was taken to a hospital and saved by massive blood transfusions after an appeal to the public for blood.

Millar's diagnosis was that she would never dance again and would walk with a limp. By June 1960 she had had 20 operations, most of which were "intricate plastic surgeries".

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1953 Money from Home Phyllis Leigh 1954 About Mrs. Leslie Nadine Roland 1956 When Gangland Strikes June Ellis