Margo Moore

Margo Moore
Born Marguerite Guarnerius
(1931-04-29)April 29, 1931
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died December 16, 2000(2000-12-16) (aged 69)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Cause of death breast cancer
Other names Marguerite Guarnery
Years active 1959–1968
Spouse(s) Joseph Warner (divorced)
Joseph Knedlhans (1982–2000) (her death)[1]
Children 1

Margo Moore (April 29, 1931 – December 16, 2000) was an American actress and fashion model.

Life

Born Marguerite Guarnerius (also reported as Guarnery) in Chicago to a violin-making family, she grew up in Indianapolis. At the age of 13, she was afflicted with polio and spent two years in a hip-to-shoulder cast. She attended Indiana University in Bloomington. In the mid-1950s, she married Joseph Warner; a son resulted from the marriage, which ended after only a few years.[1] In 1982, she married NYPD officer Joseph "Joe" Arthur Knedlhans, which lasted until her death from breast cancer.[2]

Career

She began her career as a model with the Ford Modeling Agency (now known as Ford Models) and appeared on the covers of Vogue and Mademoiselle[3] She also appeared in a number of television commercials and was a 'Toni Girl' on Arthur Godfrey's 'Talent Scouts'[4] Signed to 20th Century Fox, her film debut was 'Hound-Dog Man', released in 1959 starring Fabian, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley and Dodie Stevens. Other film appearances included Wake Me When It's Over in 1960 with Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Jack Warden and Don Knotts[5] and 1961's fictional bio The George Raft Story (film) starring Ray Danton, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London and Frank Gorshin.[6] Moore also guest-starred on the American television dramas Perry Mason (TV series) "The Case of the Capering Camera" in 1964 and Run for Your Life "The Rape of Lucrece" starring Ben Gazzara in 1968. She was a lifetime member of both the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists[3]

After her film career ended, Moore turned to business pursuits. She owned a San Francisco portrait photography studio in the 1970s[3] and in the mid-1980s she returned to New York City to run The Chocolate Garden, a candy shop at 79th Street and Third Avenue.[4] While in New York she was also Corporate Events Manager for Working Women Magazine In 2000, just months before she died, Moore and her husband moved to rural Pennsylvania and opened The Toy Robot and Pig Museum in Stoudtburg Village, Lancaster County.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Margo Moore - The Private Life and Times of Margo Moore". glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "An old friend had a fulfilling life". post-gazette.com. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 obitguy. "Rusty White's Film World". rustywhitesfilmworldobituaries.blogspot.com. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Love story unfolds like a movie". post-gazette.com. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Wake Me When It's Over (film)
  6. ↑ The George Raft Story (film)
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