William Reno Kane (1930-1942) Charles Corwin White (1942-1967)
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Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon[4][5] (October 5, 1905[6][5] – February 8, 1987)[2] was an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale in the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.
Career
MacGibbon joined the stock company of Edward Clarke Lilley at Akron, Ohio. She then went to San Francisco and played leading roles for Henry Duffy. In Louisville, Kentucky, she acted with Wilton Lackaye, Edmund Breese, William Faversham, Tom Wise and Nance O'Neil. Credits included Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Front Page, and a "transcontinental tour" of Max Marcin's The Big Fight (in which she starred opposite former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey), beginning in Boston, taking in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and ending at Caine's storehouse in Los Angeles.[7][8]
She had a long and distinguished career on the Broadway stage, beginning in 1925 at the age of 19 when she acted in the play Beggar on Horseback at the Shubert Theatre. In the late 1930s, she did You Can't Take It With You, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, at the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles. From 1934 to 1937, MacGibbon portrayed Lucy Kent on the NBC radio soap opera Home Sweet Home.[9]
MacGibbon married at least twice: in September 1930 to producer William Reno Kane of Philadelphia,[12] from whom she obtained a divorce in April 1942,[13][14] at which time she married writer Charles Corwin White.[15] They remained married until White's death in 1967, on Christmas Day. She had one child by her first marriage, a son, William MacGibbon Kane, who was born in 1933 and died in 1977, predeceasing his mother.[16]
Harriet MacGibbon died at age 81. She was cremated, and her ashes interred in niche 61046 in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California.[6]
^Zylstra, Freida (April 17, 1964). "TV Actress Places Cooking at the Top of Her Hobby List". Chicago Tribune. p. B10. ProQuest179445867. Harriet was born in Chicago, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. MacGibbon, and was still a child when her family moved to New York City.
^ ab"Obituaries". The Hollywood Reporter. February 12, 1982. p. 14. ProQuest2587909681. Harriet MacGibbon, stage, film and television actress, died Feb. 8 of pulmonary and cardiac problems in Beverly Hills.
^"Theater News: Estelle Taylor to Withdraw". New York Herald Tribune. October 11, 1928. p. 18. ProQuest1113394569. As a result of illness, according to the Sam H. Harris office, Estelle Taylor, appearing at the Majestic opposite her husband Jack Dempsey, in 'The Big Fight,' will leave the cast of that show when it takes to the road with the completion of this week's run. Harriet MacGibbon, who was the heroine in 'Ringside,' will fill the role left vacant by Miss Taylor.
^"Wandering Player Settles Down With Touring Group". The Los Angeles Times. February 17, 1938. p. 10. ProQuest164836305. There were regular productions, including Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Front Page, The Big Fight, and a 'transcontinental tour' of The Big Fight, which began in Boston, Massachusetts, took in New Haven, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut, and ended at Caine's storehouse. Jack Dempsey was also in the cast.
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