Mary Ann Mobley

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Mary Ann Mobley

Born

Mary Ann Mobley
February 17, 1939 (age 69)
Biloxi, Mississippi

Spouse(s)

Gary Collins (1967-present)

Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
1965 - Won - Most Promising Newcomer - Female Together With Mia Farrow And Celia Kaye.

Mary Ann Mobley (born February 17, 1939 in Biloxi, Mississippi). She 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.

1 Career
2 Miss America
3 Filmography
4 Television
5 References
6 External links

[edit] 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; and on such television shows as Fantasy Island 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.

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 she played Karen, a snide representative of the historical society, who not only aggravated Dixie's character, Julia Sugarbaker, but also threw a veiled insult to Julia's friend, Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor) about his contribution to the tour. When he discovered that it was exactly as he feared it would be (him dressing as a slave a la Roots) he politely declined it saying that he would do something like that "after we all go ice skating in hell!!"

Mobley was an occasional panelist on Match Game in the 1970s and appeared on Super Password with Collins during the 1980s.

[edit] 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.

Preceded by Marilyn Van Derbur	Miss America 1958	Succeeded by Lynda Lee Mead
Preceded by Gary Collins	Miss America host (with Gary Collins) 1989	Succeeded by Gary Collins & Phyllis George