Margia Dean
Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez
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Emerging from a Greek-royal lineage, she was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco, where she entered the stage at seven, earned acclaim as Juliet in a national Shakespeare contest, and captured beauty titles such as Miss San Francisco, Miss California and a top-five finish in Miss America 1939. Adopting the name Margia Dean, she debuted in the 1944 feature Casanova in Burlesque and, though…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
