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- Birth nameMenifee Isabelle Johnstone
- Menifee Johnstone was born on September 16, 1898 in New York, USA. She was a casting director and actress, known for The Face of Marble (1946) and The Sky Jumper (1925). She died on November 9, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- RelativesFrances Graham (actress)(Sibling)
- Operated the Menifee I. Johnstone Agency in Los Angeles (1529 Western Avenue in 1931), representing such clients as Hayden Stevenson, George Irving, Nella Walker and Helen Jerome Eddy.
- Father: Paul Minifee Johnstone; Mother: Belle Stoddard.
- She was maid of honor at the wedding of Mary Astor and Kenneth Hawkes.
- Casting director at Hal Roach in 1948.
- In 1925, she became casting director for William Fox Co. in Hollywood, succeeding Wilhelmina 'Billie' Hodges who had begun there in 1920. Hodges was described in her 1946 obituary as the first female casting director in the film industry.
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