Margaret Hayes was an American film and television actress.

Born December 5, 1916 (although the U.S. census for 1920 lists her as age 6) Florette Regina Ottenheimer in Baltimore, Maryland, she was often billed as Maggie Hayes in her film credits. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Judby Hammond in the film Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter.-Plot:...

(1955). Hayes played opposite Keith Andes

Keith Andes

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 in the role of Dorothy Maguire Grevemberg, wife of crusading Louisiana

Louisiana

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 State Police

State police

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 superintendent Francis Grevemberg

Francis Grevemberg

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, in the film Damn Citizen (1958). Gene Evans

Gene Evans

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 also co-starred.

She married a Mr. Debusky in Baltimore, MD and had one child, Nan in 1937. She subsequently married actor Leif Erickson

Leif Erickson

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 in 1942, but they divorced after a month. She married a third time, to producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., in 1947 and she had a daughter, Tracy Brooks Swope, who is also an actress. She and Swope divorced in 1973.

Margaret Hayes died at the age of 60 in Miami Beach

Miami Beach, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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, from liver cancer

Hepatocellular carcinoma

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 and hepatitis

Hepatitis

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