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Live fast, but young starlet, be wary
The casting on couches is scary
And wolves promise rings
to pretty young things,
but dash their careers when they marry
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Actress Mary Murphy died on May 4th. Murphy played the assistant to illusionist Vincent Price in
The Mad Magician.
Top: With Marlon Brando in
The Wild One. Above: Live Fast, Die Young with Mike Connors.
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Murphy was typically cast as the good girl, less convincingly as a femme fatale. She tamed Marlon Brando in
The Wild One (53); She hit the
Beachhead with Tony Curtis (54); Then kept Ray Milland company in
A Man Alone, spent
The Desperate Hours with Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March, and was stranded on
Hell's Island (55) with John Payne; She pointed the
Finger of Guilt (56) at Richard Basehart; She didn't want to
Live Fast, Die Young with Mike Connors
, or get static from
The Electronic Monster (58) with Rory Calhoun. Perhaps sensing the downward trajectory, Murphy moved into television; She married in 1962 on the condition that she retire, divorced in 68, and returned to film for Sam Peckinpah's
Junior Bonner in 72.