Celebrity Biographies
Dina merrill
She bordered on the roles of an elegant upper-class woman, because she herself had inherited two fortunes. Actress and philanthropist Dina Merrill died on May 22, 2017 at the age of 93, as a result of Lewy body dementia, a degenerative disease that she suffered from, according to which she had made public two years ago.
Born on December 29, 1923 in New York, Nedenia Marjorie Hutton –her real name– was the daughter of Edward Francis Hutton, a wealthy Wall Street broker, and the millionaire Marjorie Merriweather Post, divorced from Edward Bennett Close, grandfather of the actress Glenn Close . Her childhood was spent in luxury, it is said that she spent six months of the year on the family yacht, Sea Cloud, described as a ‘floating palace’.
He abandoned his studies at the George Washington University in Washington DC, to move to New York and enroll in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She chose Dina Merrill as her stage name in homage to Charles E. Merrill, the only stockbroker as famous as her father.
After making her Broadway theater debut, Dina Merrill was signed to the movies, a territory in which she was promoted for her aristocratic air as “the new Grace Kelly ”. Fred Zinnemann cast her opposite Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum in Three Wandering Lives , where she was a boring Australian socialite wife. After that, she specialized in sophisticated lady roles, such as the betrayed wife who loses her husband to Elizabeth Taylor in A Scarred Woman , the fashion consultant to Eddie , or the wife of the district attorney played by Burt Lancaster ‘s father’s courtship in The Young Wild Ones..
Since the end of the 60s, he became a regular secondary school in series like Bonanza , Mission Impossible or Murder, She Wrote . Robert Altman gave him a small part in The Hollywood Game . Divorced from millionaire Stanley Maddox Rumbough, with whom she had three children, between 1966 and 1989 she married Oscar winner Cliff Robertson , with whom she became a mother again, and later another performer, Ted Hartley , actor of titles like Barefoot for the park .