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Mary Ellen Kay and Walter Reed in Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Mary Ellen Kay and Allan Lane in Wells Fargo Gunmaster (1951)

Michael Chapin, Chubby Johnson, Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, Walter Reed, and Forrest Taylor in Wells Fargo Gunmaster (1951)

Rex Allen and Mary Ellen Kay in Thunder in God's Country (1951)

Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, and Koko in Thunder in God's Country (1951)

Buddy Ebsen, Rex Allen, and Mary Ellen Kay in Thunder in God's Country (1951)

Buddy Ebsen, Rex Allen, and Mary Ellen Kay in Silver City Bonanza (1951)

Buddy Ebsen, Rex Allen, and Mary Ellen Kay in Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)

Roy Barcroft, Trevor Bardette, and Mary Ellen Kay in Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, and June Vincent in Colorado Sundown (1952)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, James Anderson, Michael Hall, and Mary Ellen Kay in The Last Musketeer (1952)

Rex Allen and Mary Ellen Kay in The Last Musketeer (1952)

Tom Brown and Mary Ellen Kay in The Lone Ranger (1949)

Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley, Mary Ellen Kay, Richard Keith, and Gene Reynolds in I Love Lucy (1951)

Mike Connors and Mary Ellen Kay at an event for Voodoo Woman (1957)

Marla English and Mary Ellen Kay in Runaway Daughters (1956)

Buddy Ebsen, Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, and Koko in Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)

Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, Chuck Roberson, and Black Jack in Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)

Roy Barcroft, Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, and Black Jack in Desert of Lost Men (1951)

Kirby Grant, Mary Ellen Kay, and Chinook in Yukon Vengeance (1954)

Bill Elliott and Mary Ellen Kay in Vigilante Terror (1953)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, James Anderson, Mary Ellen Kay, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, and Koko in The Last Musketeer (1952)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, and Koko in Colorado Sundown (1952)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, and Koko in Border Saddlemates (1952)

Slim Pickens, Rex Allen, Mary Ellen Kay, Forrest Taylor, and Koko in Border Saddlemates (1952)

Rex Allen, Bonnie DeSimone, and Mary Ellen Kay in Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)

Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, and Black Jack in Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)

Roy Barcroft, Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, and Black Jack in Fort Dodge Stampede (1951)

Mary Ellen Kay, Allan Lane, and Black Jack in Desert of Lost Men (1951)

Dick Curtis, Mary Ellen Kay, and Walter Reed in Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Dick Curtis, Mary Ellen Kay, John Pickard, and Walter Reed in Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Dick Curtis, Mary Ellen Kay, Pierce Lyden, John Pickard, and Walter Reed in Government Agents vs Phantom Legion (1951)

Anthony Quinn and Mary Ellen Kay in Jacht op blond (1954)

Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, Mary Ellen Kay, K.T. Stevens, and Joan Vohs in Het meisje in kamer 17 (1953)

This dainty brunette starlet of the 1950s was born Mary Ellen Keaggy of German, Swiss and Irish ancestry. She loved to sing and performed in front of audiences already by the tender age of six. Not surprising an aptitude, being raised in a family with an aunt who was an opera diva in New York, an uncle who was a lyric tenor and a grandfather who was a wiz on the guitar. By the age of 15, Mary Ellen hit the road with a local orchestra as a professional singer, and, just two years later, headlined at the Mayflower Ballroom in Inglewood, California. Her first proper acting gig on stage was as Meg in Little Women. Shortly after, she appeared with Leonard Nimoy in a play at the Glendale Centre Theatre. While studying at the Bliss-Hayden School of Theatre she was discovered by a talent scout and this led her on the road to tinseltown.

After a handful of bit parts at Columbia and RKO, Mary Ellen won an audition at Republic in January 1951 and was signed to a short-term contract. In just a single year, she managed to rack up a string of eleven screen credits, including six westerns with Rex Allen (whom she described as 'wholesome'). For The Last Musketeer (1952), she was trained in the running mount by Allen and by (ex-rodeo clown) Slim Pickens (whom she called 'a laugh-a-minute'). By the end of that brief tenure at Republic, Mary Ellen had become an adept horsewoman. This training paid dividends as it helped to keep her gainfully employed for the remainder of the decade. Towards the end of her Hollywood tenure, she made several television guest appearances in The Lone Ranger (1949) and on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), eventually fading into retirement by the mid-60s.

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