Margaret Field

 Margaret Field (May 10, 1922 – November 6, 2011)

She was a film actress usually billed as Maggie Mahoney. The mother of actress Sally Field, she was best known for her work in two science fiction films, The Man from Planet X (1951) and Captive Women (1952). Early in her career she acted in a series of Musical Parade short films for Paramount as well as having small roles in 26 full-length films from 1946 to 1953. She appeared, often more than once, in television series, among which were two roles as defendants on the CBS drama series Perry Mason. In 1959, she played title character Eva Martell in "The Case of the Borrowed Brunette." In 1960, she played Linda Osborne in "The Case of the Nine Dolls." Other television appearances included a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "Greed for Gold," Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Range Rider, Yancy Derringer, To Rome With Love, Lawman, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit", among many others. She also appeared in the science fiction films Captive Women and The Man from Planet X. She was married twice, first to Army Officer Richard Dryden Field, father of Sally Field. They divorced after eight years of marriage in 1950. Her second marriage was to actor Jock Mahoney, which lasted from 1952 until their divorce in 1968. Field died of cancer at her home in Malibu, California, on November 6, 2011. She was 89 years old.