Mary Carlisle 
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanMary Carlisle: is a retired American actress and singer.she was a star of Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of fifteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in 1932. The archetypal blonde, Mary Carlisle was brought to Hollywood at the age of four by her recently widowed mother. While eating lunch with her mother at the Universal Pictures commissary, Mary was spotted by Carl Laemmle, Jr. and offered a screen test. Carlisle was interested, but decided to finish school before launching her film career. Carlisle finally stepped in front of the cameras in 1930, appearing in her first film, Madame Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Mary D Cain Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanMary D Cain: was a Mississippi newspaper editor and Democratic politician. A fiery and outspoken supporter of segregation and other conservative causes, she earned herself the nickname "Hacksaw Mary" . Besides editing the Summit Sun, a weekly newspaper of Pike County, Mississippi, she was the first woman to run for governor in the state, though she never won the office. Cain first came to national attention in 1952 when she refused to pay $42.87 in social security taxes, calling the program "unconstitutional, immoral and un-American" .
Mary Hamman Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanMary Hamman: was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle, the modern living editor for LIFE, editor in chief for Bride & Home.She was one of a "trio of formidable and colorful women" the other two being: Mary Letherbee, movie editor; and Sally Kirkland, fashion editor. Together they led the "back of the book" at LIFE and were given free rein by Ed Thompson as managing editor and later editor in chief. When Thompson went on to found the Smithsonian Magazine she would often write the humor page inside the back cover.
Mary Livingstone Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanMary Livingstone: was an American radio comedienne and the wife and radio partner of comedy great Jack Benny (né Benjamin Kubelsky). Enlisted almost entirely by accident to perform on her husband's popular program, she proved a talented comedienne. But she also proved one of the rare performers (Barbra Streisand would prove another) to experience severe stage fright years after her career was established---so much so that she retired from show business completely, after two decades in the public eye, almost three decades before her death, and at the height of her husband and partner's fame.
Mary Lou Metzger Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanMary Lou Metzger: is an American singer and dancer best known for being a cast member on The Lawrence Welk Show. The only child of Ernie and Helen Metzger, the family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where at the age of seven Metzger officially began her performing career which included appearances on The Ted Mack Amateur Hour and acting in a role for the traveling production of The Music Man by Meredith Willson.
