![]() ![]() Mobley replaced Dixie Carter as Maggie McKinney, who goes on to marry Conrad Bain’s character, for the final season of the NBC-ABC series Diff’rent Strokes in 1985-86. (When she won, the second runner-up was Miss Oklahoma, Anita Bryant.) Mobley was among the few Miss America winners to forge a career in show business the list also includes Lee Meriwether, Phyllis George, Bess Myerson and Vanessa Williams. She was reportedly the first choice to play Batgirl in the 1960s Batman spinoff, a role that went to Yvonne Craig. Mobley’s film résumé also includes Get Yourself a College Girl (1964), Young Dillinger (1965), Jerry Lewis’ Three on a Couch (1966), The King’s Pirate (1967), The Legend of Custer (1968) and For Singles Only (1968). In 1965, the Golden Globes named her Most Promising Newcomer, an award Mobley shared with Mia Farrow and Celia Milius.Īfter her character dated Presley’s in Girl Happy (1965), she reteamed with her fellow Mississippian later in the year in Harum Scarum, in which she starred as a slave girl who is actually the daughter of a king in the Middle East. ![]() She first attracted attention on the small screen when she appeared on a 1963 episode of Aaron Spelling’s Burke’s Law, which producers loved to populate with beautiful women making a fuss over suave star Gene Barry. See more Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2014 Francesca Cappucci, Former Entertainment Reporter at KABC-TV, Dies at 64 ![]()
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