Background
Mary Ann Mobley was born in 1937 in Brandon, Mississippi.
Mary Ann Mobley was born in 1937 in Brandon, Mississippi.
University of Mississippi.
After serving her reign as 1959, Mobley embarked on a career in both film and television She signed a five-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She made her first five television appearances on Burke"s Law from 1963-1965, and went on to make multiple appearances on Perry Mason. Love, American Style.
And Fantasy Island.
She had a recurring role as Maggie McKinney Drummond on Diff"rent Strokes in the final season of the series, having taken over the role from Dixie Carter. She would later guest star as Karen Delaporte, a snide head of a historical society who crossed swords with Dixie"s character, Julia Sugarbaker, in Carter"s later series, Designing Women. She also made appearances on Match Game "76 as one of the celebrity panelists.
She ended her television career in 1994 with an appearance on Hardball.
She was Awarded the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year — Actress in 1965. Collins and Mobley had one daughter together, Mary Clancy Collins.
Health and death
Mobley had Crohn"s disease, and had at times been an activist for improvements in treatment. She was treated in 2009 for Stage 3 breast cancer.
Mobley died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on December 9, 2014, aged 77, from breast cancer.
She was active in many charitable causes and was awarded the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award in 1966 by Lady Bird Johnson. Most recently, she appeared in the documentary film which aired on Public Broadcasting Service in 2002. Mobley was crowned 1959, the first Mississippian to achieve this honor, winning the national talent award. Mobley joined her husband, Gary Collins, as co-host of the 1989 pageant, in September 1988 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the 30th anniversary year of her own pageant victory.
Mobley was a member of Chi Omega sorority at the University of Mississippi and in 1981 was inducted into the University of Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame.
