Myrna Fahey
Myrna Fahey played False Face's assistant "Blaze" in episodes
# 17- True or False Face
# 18 - Holy Rat Race.
A bit of background information, When I started doing research on Miss Fahey, I kept running into a brick wall. I could find no information on her life at all. What I did find is that she passed away very young in 1973 and that was about all. This got my curiosity up on what happened to her. I would like to thank The Bangor Daily News , Sue Wennrich and The Bangor Maine Public Library, Bill Capello, Stephen G. Burrill, Supt.of the Mt. Hope Cemetery Bangor ME, for going out of their way to help in my endeavor to document her life. They really went out of their way to help, and I surely appreciate it. Another note of Thanks to Dave Brockman for providing the screen captures from Perry Mason of her. He has an awesome site Perry Mason TV - Check it out !
Myrna
Fahey's life was a Cinderella story. She was born in 1933 in Carmel
Maine, a small town about 12 miles from Bangor Maine. She attended
Pemetic high school in Southwest Harbor ME where she was a
cheerleader and a good student who was engaged in many
extracurricular activities. She won a part in a 
school
play and decided to go into acting. She stated something " in
the back of her mind" made her decide to become an actress. She
graduated high school at the age of seventeen and dropped the bomb on
her parents that she wanted to go to Hollywood to become an actress.
in addition to acting , she was involved in many beauty contests, was
a runner up in the Miss Maine contest in 1952 and her biggest
achievement was the runner up of " Miss Rheingold " in
1956. A bit of info on that, as I was born in 1963 I had never heard
of " Miss Rheingold" because the contest ended in 1963 but
the contest was a huge achievement, The Beer company, , started the
contest in 1938 and later on the contestants were voted on from a
booklet. During it's heyday, the contest was the second largest
public election in the United States. Ok so much for that. Myrna set
out for Hollywood. Due to her age ( and I would assume her parents
insistence) she 
was
accompanied by two family friends, Mr and Mrs John Butler to
California. She went to the land of opportunity and enrolled in
Pasadena 
Playhouse.She
worked at the playhouse for a year and started doing TV commercials.
Her first big break came in a TV show called " Matinee
Theater" after that she became pretty busy appearing in "
Wagon Train", Bonanza, Perry Mason, Thriller and a few more. In
1959 she received her big break, she costarred with Tony Franciosa in
" The Story on Page One" Then in 1960 she starred as
Vincent Price's sister in " House of Usher" a film version
of the Edgar Allen Poe tale. In 1961, she hit the Tube as one of the
stars in the CBS sitcom " Father of the Bride" at 
the
age of 22. The series lasted one year.
In an interview she stated, " Theres supposed to be an extreme ambivalence in everyone, If you are extremely nice, you want to be bad, and vice versa. Im kind of in the middle of the road." She went on to say, " I have moral overtones" "What I like is a part like Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone With The Wind' she had spirit,temper- but I wont say what she was"
Myrna was often compared to Elizabeth Taylor in looks and she was a beauty to say the least. 1960 was a very busy year for her in TV, I found credits for 12 different TV shows and at this point her appearances started to drop off- one in 1962, two in 1963, one in 1964, three in 1965,
In 1966 she was in Batman as Blaze and in an episode of Perry Mason, and she finished her on screen performances with a 1967 appearance on Time Tunnel and the western, Rango. It appears this is where her career ended.
Santa Monica, California
Fahey, Myrna E, 40 died May 6th at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica California after a long illness. She was born March 12, 1933 at Carmel, the daughter of Francis E and Olivia (Newcomb) Fahey. Miss Fahey was a graduate of Pemetic High School, Southwest Harbor and Pasadena Play House, Pasadena, California. As a television actress, she appeared in numerous programs including Playhouse 90, episodes of the Perry Mason series, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Maverick, Dr. Marcus Welby M.D., and the ABC Movie of the Month. For a year she played the feminine lead to the television series Father of the Bride. In motion pictures, she had roles in Fall of the House of Usher and Story on Page One. Survived by her father, Bar Harbor, her mother, Beverly Hills California. and two brothers Michael, Fort Lauderdale Florida and Charles of Mobile Alabama. Funeral services at the Furnald Funeral Chapel Mt. Desert are pending return of the family from California. Visiting hours for friends and funeral arrangements will be announced by the Furnald Funeral Chapel. Interment will be in the family lot in Mt Pleasant Cemetery , Bangor. In lieu of flowers the family suggests the contributions may be made to The Nellie I Fahey Memorial Organ Fund of St Peters Church , Southwest Harbor, attn Mr George T Vose or to the American Cancer Society
From what I had read, she had been fighting cancer for some time before she lost her fight in 1973. She had never married but I had read stories about her being courted quite heavily. So ends my search for the history on a Hollywood Star. May she rest in peace.
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