Mary Beth Hughes

**Mary Beth Hughes** (November 13, 1919 – 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.

### 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)

## Other websites

- The Official Mary Beth Hughes site

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Mary Beth Hughes
- **image**: Mary Beth Hughes in Design for Scandal trailer.jpg
- **imagesize**: 220px
- **caption**: Mary Beth Hughes in _Design for Scandal_ - trailer
- **birthname**: Mary Elizabeth Hughes
- **birth date**: November 13, 1919
- **birth place**: Alton, Illinois, U.S.
- **death date**: August 27, 1995 (aged 75)
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **occupation**: Actress
- **yearsactive**: 1939–1974
- **spouse**: Ted North (1943–1947)
David Street (1948–1956)
Nicky Stewart (1973–1977)
- **children**: Donald North
- **website**: http://www.594.com/mbh/mbh.html