Background
Margaret Marley was born in Robeson County, North Carolina. They had one son, Nelson, who was born in 1952.
Margaret Marley was born in Robeson County, North Carolina. They had one son, Nelson, who was born in 1952.
Elmer Modlin and Margaret Marley were married in North Carolina in 1949 then moved to Hollywood to find their fortune. Elmer Modlin appeared in television show Bewitched and the 1968 film, Rosemary"s Baby. They left the United States in 1972 to seek better prospects, arriving in Madrid, Spain, in 1975.
Margaret Modlin is credited with acting parts in the 1973 film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing and the 1977 film, March or Die.
The household, in a house on Calle de Pez, revolved around Margaret the "eccentric painter". Modlin"s paintings and drawings have been exhibited in California, New York, Italy and Spain.
In 1972, she exhibited at Galeria de Luis in Madrid, Spain, and, in 1978, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the first foreigner invited to exhibit. Modlin didn"t sell a painting in her lifetime but hoped to find a place in art history.
She died in 1998, stipulating in her will that her paintings remained in Spain.
Her final painting, of poet José García Nieto, was only half completed. In November 2013 he published a book,, based on the subsequent investigation about the family.
