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The daughter of a United Press executive, Mala Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop as a kid and fell in love with acting the first time she set foot on a stage. She made her film debut in Universal's 1942 Tough as They Come (1942) before actress Helene Thimig (Max Reinhardt's wife) convinced her to continue studying rather than become a child actress. Powers worked in radio ("Cisco Kid", "Red Ryder", "This Is Your F.B.I.", "Lux Radio Theater", "Screen Guild on the Air") and met actress Ida Lupino while working on the latter show; Lupino auditioned and approved Powers for the top role in Outrage (1950), made by Lupino's Filmmakers production company. Powers' promising career was derailed by illness in the early '50s; when she resumed work, it was as the "B queen" of Westerns and sci-fi flicks (and much TV). For many years she has been lecturing on and teaching the Michael Chekhov acting technique throughout the U.S.

[from a 1990 interview] No, I&#39;m not pleased with my career; yes, I am pleased with my life. I
just loved good roles: I would love to have done great big roles in
great big &quot;A&quot; pictures, roles that had meat in them. Would any actress
not like to play Scarlett O&#39;Hara in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0031381/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Gone with the Wind (1939)</a>? From a career
standpoint, of course that&#39;s what I would like to have done. It never
quite happened for me that way, but I had some wonderfully satisfying
experiences, I learned a tremendous lot, I had a marvelous teacher, and
who knows what&#39;ll happen at this point? I don&#39;t necessarily know that
I&#39;ve finished with acting.

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Mala Powers

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