Margia Dean – 1922

Margia Dean began acting at the age of seven. She played various child roles on stage before earning the credit for her performance as Juliet in a Romeo and Juliet production. She began modeling and was dubbed Miss San Francisco and Miss California. In the 1939 Miss America pageant, she came second to Patricia Donnelly.

Dean made her feature film debut in Casanova in Burlesque. She eventually withdrew from performing after getting frustrated that her jobs were mostly in B movies. Dean dabbled in film production, collaborating on The Long Rope with Hugh Marlowe and producing a few television pilots. Since then, she has worked in costume design and interior decoration and served as a real estate agency vice president.