Marjorie Lord, the actress best remembered for portraying the second wife of entertainer (and also widowed) Danny Williams on The Danny Thomas Show from 1957 to 1964, passed away natural causes at her Beverly Hills, California home on November 28 at age 97.
It was following the departure of Jean Hagen (best remembered for playing the arrogant silent-screen actress Lina Lamont in the 1952 film classic "Singin' In The Rain"), who played Danny's first wife Margaret, in 1956, after the third season of Make Room For Daddy, that it was decided that Mr. Thomas' character, night club singer and comic Danny Williams, became a widower.
It was during that show's fourth season, its' last on ABC, that Miss Lord began playing the role of Kathy O'Hara, a widowed Irish nurse with a daughter (Danny had a son and daughter himself). She and Danny fell in love and were wed on the show's fourth season (and ABC era) finale.
The series, by the time it moved to CBS (and into the old I Love Lucy 9:00 PM Monday night time slot, where it flourished in the ratings), was renamed The Danny Thomas Show and ran until 1964.
Danny, Marjorie, and the rest of the cast were re-assembled in 1970 when the series was revived on ABC as Make Room For Granddaddy. That revival lasted one season.
Married three times and widowed twice, Marjorie was the mother of actress Anne Archer (from her marriage to actor John Archer, which ended in divorce in 1955)
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