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She attended Ann Wright Seminary, Washington Grammar School, Mason Junior High School and graduated in 1950 from Stadium High School in Tacoma.
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Marjie Millar
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Born Marjorie Joy Miller to George West. and Eunice Miller in Tacoma, Washington (Millar"s father had changed his surname to the American "Miller"). During World World War II she was named "Sweetheart of the 41st Division" having performed more than 7,000 hours singing for soldiers at nearby Fort Lewis. In 1946, she hosted a variety show for patients at Madigan Army Hospital at Fort
Lewis on the unique radio station for the hospital known as "Voice of Madigan".
In 1949, she enrolled at Stephens College, an all-women"s school in Columbia, Missouri where she carried a double major in radio/drama and psychology, graduating in 1951. She appeared in the television series Dragnet (in 1956) and The Millionaire.
In 1954–1955, Millar co-starred as Susan, an aspiring writer and the love interest of the Ray Bolger character "Raymond Wallace" in the American Broadcasting Company sitcom with a variety show theme, The Ray Bolger Show, previously known as Where"s Raymond?. 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"s biggest movie role was playing Dean Martin"s love interest in the 1953 Martin and Lewis film Money from Home. She also starred in, "About Mission Leslie" starring Shirely Booth and Robert Ryan, which was not a success at the box office despite the all star cast and production. In the early 1960s, she was choreographer for the Tacoma instrumental rock group The Ventures.
Injuries sustained in a 1957 auto accident on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, resulted in infection and gangrene of her left legal
After reporting to work on Dragnet she went back to her apartment and then became too weak to lift the phone, and was found by a neighbor who noticed a several day 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.
Her leg was not amputated but she was forced to end her acting career. She died at Coronado Hospital in San Diego, California, in 1966 as a result of cirrhosis of the liver and chronic pancreatitis after enduring at least fourteen surgeries on her injured legal
