Cecilia Parker

 Cecilia Parker (April 26, 1914 – July 25, 1993)

She was best known for portraying Marian Hardy, the sister of Andy Hardy in eleven of the Andy Hardy film series. She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an English soldier. They resided in Los Angeles. In 1931, Parker was selected from among a group of extras to attend the Fox Film studio training school for younger players. Soon after, she was selected to play opposite George O'Brien in The Rainbow Trail (1932). In July 1933, she was chosen to play the heroine in the Ken Maynard western, The Trail Drive (1933). That same year, she was John Wayne's leading lady in one of the first singing cowboy movies, Riders of Destiny, and also appeared in Rainbow Ranch. After playing the sister of Greta Garbo in 1934's The Painted Veil, Parker signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

She played Marian Hardy in the extremely popular Andy Hardy film series in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was in the original Hardy film, A Family Affair, in 1937. Mickey Rooney played Andy Hardy in the series, supported by Lewis Stone, Ann Rutherford, and Fay Holden. Though she and the character she played were absent from the last two Andy Hardy films of the 1940s, Parker came out of retirement to play Marian Hardy in one more movie, in 1958. Andy Hardy Comes Home was an attempt to revive and update the series, but it was not a success. Parker then returned to the real estate business that she and her husband operated in Ventura, California, and she acted only very rarely afterward.

She was married to actor Robert Baldwin from 1938 until her death, they had three children. On July 25, 1993, Parker died at age 79 after a long illness, she is buried at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills.