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Often on TV variety shows doing sketch comedy for such funny-men as Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise and Jonathan Winters, usually as their put-upon wives.

Brash blonde musical comedy actress since the late 50s who won the Tony, Drama Desk and Theatre World awards for her performance in "Promises, Promises" in 1968. She's mixed in Shakespeare performances on stage in between the song-stylings.

Won Broadway's 1969 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for "Promises, Promises."

She won the Tony award, Drama Desk award and the Theatre World award for her hilarious scene stealing performance as Marge MacDougall in 'Promises, Promises" at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. The show ran for 1,281 performances from 1968 to 1972.

Starred as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Repertory Theatre in St Louis for the 1967-1968 season.

Anthony Newley's musical "Stop the World--I Want to Get Off" was revamped for the talents of Sammy Davis Jr. in 1978. Davis had earned a hit record with the song "What Kind of Fool Am I?" from the show back in 1962. Marian co-starred but the show bombed terribly. Despite the bad notices, the show was taped for film, retitled Sammy Stops the World (1979) and quickly released. It did not fare any better.

Graduated from the University of Michigan.

Starred as Olivia in "Your Own Thing" at the Orphium Theatre off Broadway in 1968 and starred in "The Game is Up" at the Upstairs at the Downstairs theatre in 1964.

Starred in "New Faces of 1962" on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1962.

Starred as Myra Arundel in "Hay Fever" in 1970 on Broadway at the Helen Hayes theatre.

Starred as Deirdre in "Bosoms and Neglect" is 1979 on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre.

Starred as "Polly" in "A Place for Polly" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in 1970.

Died of Alzheimer's disease at age 75 on April 27, 2011 in Newbury Park, California. She was survived by her husband, Patrick Hogan, and her daughter, Deirdre Whitaker.

She starred in "Miss Margarida's Way" for the Katselas Theatre Company in Beverly Hills.

Starred as Mrs Swabb in "Habeas Corpus" at the Matrix theater in Los Angeles in 1994.

Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes returned to her immediate family.

She was a lifelong Democrat.