Biography

Marianne McAndrew was born on November 26, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Hello, Dolly! (1969), The Bat People (1974) and Chandler (1971). She was previously married to Stewart Moss.

After being cast in Hello, Dolly! (1969), she moved to Hollywood in early 1968 and took dance classes at 20th Century Fox, working with choreographer Michael Kidd and director Gene Kelly, who later told her that she reminded him of Kay Kendall, who he had starred with in Les Girls (1957).

Worked with her husband, Stewart Moss, on the movie The Bat People (1974).

McAndrew graduated from Northwestern University and immediately went to New York City to pursue an acting career. She ended up in a bus and truck tour of Half a Sixpence in a non-singing part. She waited tables and other odd jobs, but Half a Sixpence would be her only professional theater job prior to landing her debut film role in 1968, the movie adaptation of Hello, Dolly. She finished filming in August 1968 but for various legal reasons, the film itself did not come out until December 1969.

[Responding to her agent getting her an audition for Hello, Dolly!, her first film role] There is no way that I can do that. I don't sing and I don't dance and I am totally unqualified and there's no point.