Title: Mary Beth Hughes Content: Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919 Katz, Ephraim (1979). The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume. Perigee Books. . P. 586. – August 27, 1995) was an American stage, movie and television actress. She played Henry Fonda's former girlfriend in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). She also played Sylvia in The Great Profile. ==Early life and career== She was born Mary Elizabeth Hughes in Alton, Illinois. Hughes' parents, George Joseph Hughes and Mary Frances Hughes, separated when she was an infant and divorced in 1923. ==Personal life== ===Death=== Hughes died, aged 75, on August 27, 1995 from natural causes in Los Angeles. ==Filmography== * Within the Law (1939) (uncredited voice) * Broadway Serenade (1939) (uncredited) * The Kid from Texas (1939) (uncredited) * Bridal Suite (1939) (uncredited) * These Glamour Girls (1939) * The Women (1939) * Dancing Co-Ed (1939) * Fast and Furious (1939) * The Covered Trailer (1939) * Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) * Star Dust (1940) * Four Sons (1940) * Lucky Cisco Kid (1940) * The Great Profile (1940) * Sleepers West (1941) * Ride on Vaquero (1941) * The Great American Broadcast (1941) * The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941) * Dressed to Kill (1941) * Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) * Design for Scandal (1941) * Blue, White and Perfect (1942) * The Night Before the Divorce (1942) * Orchestra Wives (1942) * Over My Dead Body (1942) * Good Morning, Judge (1943) * Follow the Band (1943) * The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) * Melody Parade (1943) * Never a Dull Moment (1943) * Timber Queen (1944) * Men on Her Mind (1944) * Take It Big (1944) * I Accuse My Parents (1944) * The Great Flamarion (1945) * Rockin' in the Rockies (1945) * The Lady Confesses (1945) * Caged Fury (1948) * Waterfront at Midnight (1948) * The Return of Wildfire (1948) * Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948) * Inner Sanctum (1948) * Last of the Wild Horses (1948) * El Paso (1949) * Rimfire (1949) * Grand Canyon (1949) * The Devil's Henchman (1949) * Square Dance Jubilee (1949) * Riders in the Sky (1949) * Young Man with a Horn (1950) * Holiday Rhythm (1950) * Close to My Heart (1951) * Passage West (1951) * Highway Dragnet (1954) * Loophole (1954) * Las Vegas Shakedown (1955) * Dig That Uranium (1955) * Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) * How's Your Love Life? (1971) * The Working Girls (1974) * Tanya (1976) ==Television credits== * Nash Airflyte Theatre (1 episode, 1950) * The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1 episode, 1951) * Not for Publication (1 episode, 1952) * My Hero (1 episode, 1952) * The Abbott and Costello Show (1 episode, 1953) * The Philco Television Playhouse (1 episode, 1953) * Racket Squad (1 episode, 1953) * The Public Defender (1 episode, 1954) * The Ford Television Theatre (1 episode, 1954) * Fireside Theater (1 episode, 1954) * The Lone Wolf (1 episode) * The Man Behind the Badge (1 episode, 1955) * The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1 episode, 1955) * Big Town (2 episodes, 1954–1955) * Front Row Center (2 episodes, 1955) * Dragnet (1 episode, 1956) * The Eve Arden Show (1 episode, 1957) * Colt .45 (1 episode, 1957) * Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1958) * December Bride (1 episode, 1958) * Studio One (1 episode, 1958) * Buckskin (1 episode, 1958) * Pursuit (1 episode, 1958) * Frontier Doctor (1 episode, 1958) * The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1 episode, 1959) * Wanted: Dead or Alive (1 episode, 1959) * The Thin Man (2 episodes, 1958–1959) * The Deputy (1 episode, 1961) * Holiday Lodge (1 episode, 1961) * Dennis the Menace (1 episode, 1962) * Rawhide (2 episodes, 1959–1963) * The Red Skelton Show (11 episodes, 1955–1970)