{{Short description|American actress (1922–2011)}} {{For|the actress born Margaret Cynthia Field|Virginia Field}} {{Infobox person | image = Margaret Field in The Man from Planet X trailer.jpg | caption = Field in the trailer for <br>''The Man from Planet X'' (1951) | image_size = | birth_name = {{nowrap|Margaret Joy Morlan}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|5|10}} | birth_place = Houston, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|11|6|1922|5|10}} | death_place = Malibu, California, U.S. | resting_place = | other_names = Maggie Mahoney | occupation = Actress | alma_mater = Pasadena Junior College | years_active = 1945–1973 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Richard Field|1942|1950|reason=divorced}} * {{marriage|Jock Mahoney|1952|1968|reason=divorced}} }} | children = 3, including Sally and Richard | relatives = Peter Craig (grandson)<br>Eli Craig (grandson) }} '''Margaret Field''' (née '''Margaret Joy Morlan''';<ref name="rp">{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|page=241|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Margaret+Morlan%22+actress&pg=PA241|access-date=11 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> May 10, 1922 – November 6, 2011) was an American film actress<ref name="v">{{cite web|title=Actress Margaret O'Mahoney dies|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/news/actress-margaret-o-mahoney-dies-1118045776/|website=Variety|date=7 November 2011|access-date=11 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611200831/http://variety.com/2011/film/news/actress-margaret-o-mahoney-dies-1118045776/|archive-date=11 June 2017}}</ref> usually billed as '''Maggie Mahoney''' after her marriage to actor Jock Mahoney. The mother of actress Sally Field,<ref name=rp/> she was best known for her work in two science-fiction films, ''The Man from Planet X'' (1951) and ''Captive Women'' (1952)<ref name=opa/> and played dozens of roles in various television series.
==Early years== Margaret Joy Morlan was born on May 10, 1922, in Houston, Texas,<ref name=opa/> the daughter of Joy Beatrice (née Bickeley) and Wallace Miller Morlan.<ref>1940 United States Federal Census</ref> Late in the 1930s, Field and her family moved to Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.<ref name=parla_mitchell/>
== Career ==
[[File:Margaret Field-Jock Mahoney in Yancy Derringer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Maggie Mahoney and Jock Mahoney in a 1958 episode of ''Yancy Derringer'']] Field was discovered at the Pasadena Playhouse<ref name="jm">{{cite book|last1=Freese|first1=Gene|title=Jock Mahoney: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Stuntman|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786476893|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-XRzAQAAQBAJ&q=%22Margaret+Morlan%22+actress&pg=PA62|access-date=11 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> by talent scout Milton Lewis for Paramount Pictures. Following a successful screen test, she was offered an 18-month contract. She then attended Pasadena Junior College, studying voice training and acting, while acting in films.<ref name=jm/> Early in her career, she acted in a series of ''Musical Parade'' short films for Paramount and had small roles in 26 full-length films from 1946 to 1953.<ref name=opa/>
She appeared, often more than once, in television series, among which were two roles as defendants on the CBS drama series ''Perry Mason''. In 1959, she played title character Eva Martell in "The Case of the Borrowed Brunette". In 1960, she played Linda Osborne in "The Case of the Nine Dolls". Other television appearances included a 1950 episode of ''The Lone Ranger'' entitled "Greed for Gold", ''Wagon Train'', ''Bonanza'', ''The Virginian'', ''The Range Rider'', ''Yancy Derringer'' starring her husband Jock Mahoney, ''To Rome With Love'' starring John Forsythe, ''Lawman'' starring Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager, ''Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse'', and the 1963 ''Twilight Zone'' episode "The New Exhibit", among many others. She also appeared in the science-fiction films ''Captive Women'' and ''The Man from Planet X''.<ref name="parla_mitchell" /> In February 1956, Field co-starred with her husband Jock Mahoney in the ''Death Valley Days'' episode "Swamper Ike".<ref>"There were satisfactory performances by Jock Mahoney and Margaret Field. The 20-Mule Team Borax commercials were fairly good."{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Leon |title=Death Valley Days (TV film) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkUEAAAAMBAJ&q=margaret+field+%22death+valley+days%22&pg=PA13 |work=Billboard, Inc. |date=February 18, 1956 |page=13, Col. 2}}</ref>
== Personal life == In 1942, Field married Richard Dryden Field, an Army officer,<ref name=opa/> and had two children with him: television and film actress Sally Field and physicist Richard D. Field.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phys.ufl.edu/wp/index.php/people/faculty/richard-field/|title = Richard Field}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~rfield/Family_frm.html|title = Information: Field Family}}</ref>
On January 21, 1952, Field married actor Jock Mahoney in Tijuana, Mexico,<ref name=jm/> thereafter billed in her acting work as "Maggie Mahoney". Together they had a daughter, Princess, a director of television shows including ''ER'' and ''Shameless''. Field and Mahoney divorced in June 1968.<ref name="parla_mitchell">{{cite book|author1=Parla, Paul |author2=Mitchell, Charles P. |year=2000|title=Screen sirens scream! : interviews with 20 actresses from science fiction, horror, film noir, and mystery movies, 1930s to 1960s|pages=95–101|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-7864-0701-8}}</ref>
== Death == Field, aged 89, died of cancer at her home in Malibu, California, on November 6, 2011,<ref name="opa">{{cite book|last1=Lentz|first1=Harris M. III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2011|date=2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786469949|page=109|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5X_GCwAAQBAJ&q=%22Margaret+Morlan%22+actress&pg=PA109|access-date=11 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> which was her daughter Sally Field's 65th birthday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/margaret-field-actress-mother-sally-258313/|title=Margaret Field, Actress and Mother of Sally Field, Dies at 89|first=Mike|last=Barnes|date=November 7, 2011|work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1946|| ''Our Hearts Were Growing Up'' || Lowell Schoolgirl || Uncredited |- |1946|| ''Blue Skies'' || Showgirl || Uncredited |- |1947|| ''Ladies' Man'' || Girl at Cocktail Table || Uncredited |- |1947|| ''The Imperfect Lady'' || Chorus Girl || Uncredited |- |1947|| ''Blaze of Noon'' || Nurse || Uncredited |- |1947|| ''Welcome Stranger'' || Photo of Cousin Hattie || Uncredited |- |1947|| ''The Perils of Pauline'' || Juliet in Show || Uncredited |- |1948|| ''The Big Clock'' || Second Secretary || |- |1948|| ''Beyond Glory'' || Cora || |- |1948|| ''Night Has a Thousand Eyes'' || Agnes || Uncredited |- |1948|| ''Isn't It Romantic?'' || Burly Gent's Second Girl || Uncredited |- |1948|| ''The Paleface'' || Guest || Uncredited |- |1949|| ''My Friend Irma'' || Alice || |- |1949|| ''Chicago Deadline'' || Minerva || |- |1949|| ''Samson and Delilah'' || Temple Spectator || Uncredited |- |1950|| ''Paid in Full'' || Mother of Betsy || Uncredited |- |1950|| ''Riding High'' || Maid || Uncredited |- |1950|| ''It's a Small World'' || Janie at Age 16 || |- |1950|| ''A Modern Marriage'' || Evelyn Brown || |- |1950|| ''The Du Pont Story'' || Housewife || Uncredited |- |1951|| ''The Man from Planet X'' || Enid Elliot || |- |1951|| ''The Dakota Kid'' || Mary Lewis || |- |1951|| ''Take Care of My Little Girl'' || Party Guest || Uncredited |- |1951|| ''Yukon Manhunt'' || Polly Kaufman || |- |1951|| ''Chain of Circumstance'' || Dell Dawson || |- |1951|| ''The Valparaiso Story'' || || |- |1951|| ''Venture of Faith'' || || |- |1952|| ''For Men Only'' || Julie Brice || |- |1952|| ''Carrie'' || Servant Girl || Uncredited |- |1952|| ''The Story of Will Rogers'' || Sally Rogers || |- |1952|| ''Captive Women'' || Ruth || |- |1952|| ''The Raiders'' || Mary Morrell || |- |1953|| ''So This Is Love'' || Edna Wallace || |- |1956|| ''Inside Detroit'' || Barbara Linden || |- |1956|| ''Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado'' || Nita Riordan || |- |1957|| ''The Walter Winchell File'' || Louise Melk || Episode: "Where Is Louise Milk?" |- |1957|| ''Slim Carter'' || Hat Check Girl || |- |1960|| ''Desire in the Dust'' || Maude Wilson || |}
==Selected television== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |- !scope="col"|Year !scope="col"|Title !scope="col"|Role !scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1953 | ''Death Valley Days'' | Laurie | Season 1, Episode 12, "Swamper Ike" |- |1960 |''Perry Mason'' | Linda Osborne | Season 4, Episode 9, "The Case of the Nine Dolls" |- | 1961 | ''Lawman'' | Ann Turner | Season 3, Episode 38, "Cold Fear" |- | 1963 | ''Twilight Zone'' | Emma Senescu | Season 4, Episode 13, "The New Exhibit" |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0275992}}
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