Marie Mahder (December 3, 1923 â€" January 27, 2001), best known by
her stage name Sally Mansfield, was an American television character
actress; she also had a few small roles in feature films including one
with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Mansfield
was a moppet radio star in Chicago, Illinois. Her father gave her the
nickname "Sally". As a youth she joined the Actors Company of Chicago
and the Children's Summer Theatre and studied at the Sherwood Music
School. Coming to New York City in 1945, she voiced several radio
roles for commercials and on soap operas and dramas. As a chorine with
the Don Arden Dancers, she performed in revues in New York and in Las
Vegas.[citation needed]Moving to Hollywood, Mansfield met up with a
talent scout for Paramount Pictures while she was in the Geller
Workshop. She landed a bit part in Forever Female (1953) as the
secretary of Paul Douglas. She was a regular on the CBS Gunsmoke radio
show in 1954.[citation needed]Mansfield gained notoriety for modeling
a sweater designed by Edith Head, which she wore when she entertained
U.S. Army troops in Alaska and Japan. The sweater's back was padded
with heat-producing chemicals, and this then-novel idea along with
Mansfield's photo was widely syndicated. She modeled a two-piece
bathing suit in Pose! The Picture Magazine, in March 1955.[citation
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