Dina Merrill

Nedenia Marjorie Hutton (born December 9, 1925) is an American actress known as Dina Merrill. Born in New York City, she is the daughter of Wall Street wizard Edward F. Hutton and Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

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December 9 - 1925 - American - Actress - New York City - Wall Street - Edward F. Hutton - Post Cereals - Marjorie Merriweather Post

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Using the stage name Dina Merrill, her first film was Desk Set (1957), in which she played Sylvia Blair, one of the researchers whose supervisor was Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn).

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Stage name - Desk Set - Katharine Hepburn

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Dina Merrill has been married three times. Her first husband was Stanley Rumbough, Jr., an heir to the Colgate toothpaste fortune. Married in 1946, they divorced in 1966. They had three children. Her second husband was the American actor Cliff Robertson (married 1966, divorced 1986). They had one daughter, Heather Robertson. Her third husband is former actor Ted Hartley; they married in 1989.

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Colgate - Cliff Robertson - Ted Hartley

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A corporate remnant named RKO Pictures was purchased by Merrill and Hartley in 1989 with a plan to resurrect it as a motion picture production company.

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RKO Pictures - 1989 - Motion picture

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On April 6, 2005, at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, Ms. Merrill introduced a screening of Budd Schulberg's 1959 TV production What Makes Sammy Run? She was in this production. Mr. Schulberg was also at the screening.

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Museum of Television and Radio - Budd Schulberg's - What Makes Sammy Run?

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