Mary Ann Mobley

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Mary Ann Mobley (born February 17, 1939) is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.

She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM Television.

Career

After serving her reign as Miss America 1959, she embarked on a career in film and television.

She appeared in movies, including two with Elvis Presley in 1965, Girl Happy and Harum Scarum; and on such television shows as Fantasy Island, Custer, Mission: Impossible and The Love Boat. She also had a recurring role on the show Falcon Crest. She also played Maggie McKinney/Drummond in Diff'rent Strokes during the series' final season. Mobley was an occasional panelist on Match Game in the 1970s and appeared on Super Password with Collins during the 1980s.

Coincidentally, Mobley and Dixie Carter, who originated the role of Maggie on Diff'rent Strokes, worked together in an episode of Ms. Carter's later series, Designing Women, in which Mobley played Karen, a snide representative of the local historical society.

In an interview with a scuba diving magazine, she described herself as an "avid diver."

Miss America

She was Miss America in 1959 -- the first Mississippian to win this honor. She was a member of Chi Omega sorority at the University of Mississippi.^[1] Remarkably, another sorority sister from Chi Omega at the University of Mississippi, Lynda Mead Shea would follow her as the 1960 Miss America.

Filmography

• Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
• Girl Happy (1965)
• Harum Scarum (1965)
• Young Dillinger (1965)
• Three on a Couch (1966)

Television

• Perry Mason
• Mission: Impossible
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Love, American Style
• General Hospital
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Dead Like Me
• Designing Women
• Hearts Afire
• Fantasy Island
• Falcon Crest
• The Love Boat
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV series)
• Partridge Family

References

External links

• Mary Ann Mobley at the Internet Movie Database
• Mary Ann Mobley at TV.com
• Mary Ann Mobley at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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