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Marcella Cisney(1913-1989)

  • Director
  • Actress
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Marcella Cisney was born on 15 July 1913 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a director and actress, known for Woman with a Past (1954), Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951) and Lamp Unto My Feet (1948). She died on 8 December 1989 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
BornJuly 15, 1913
DiedDecember 8, 1989(76)
BornJuly 15, 1913
DiedDecember 8, 1989(76)
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Woman with a Past
6.2
TV Series
  • Director
Robert Clarke, Sally Forrest, Claire Trevor, and Carleton G. Young in Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
6.2
  • Miss Martin
  • 1951
Lamp Unto My Feet (1948)
Lamp Unto My Feet
7.0
TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Director

  • Woman with a Past
    6.2
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1954
  • Lamp Unto My Feet (1948)
    Lamp Unto My Feet
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 1954

Actress

  • Robert Clarke, Sally Forrest, Claire Trevor, and Carleton G. Young in Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
    Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
    6.2
    • Miss Martin
    • 1951
  • Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, and Harlan Warde in Prison Warden (1949)
    Prison Warden
    5.4
    • Convict Wife (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Dennis O'Keefe and Gale Storm in Abandoned (1949)
    Abandoned
    6.7
    • Nurse at Meeting (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Glenn Ford in The Undercover Man (1949)
    The Undercover Man
    6.6
    • Alice Ferguson (uncredited)
    • 1949

Personal details

  • Born
    • July 15, 1913
    • Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Died
    • December 8, 1989
    • New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  • Other works
    She directed Donald Hall's play, "An Evening's Frost," in an American Conservatory Theatre production at the Geary and Marine Memorial Theatres in San Francisco, California.

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Was an acting coach in the 1950s in Jacksonville, Florida, and is credited with the 'discovery' of actress Wanda Hendrix. Was an associate director of the famed Pasadena Playhouse in 1949.

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