Maggie Thrett

Maggie Thrett
Maggie Thrett pictured in mid-1965 following signing to DynoVoice Records.
Born	18 November 1946 (1946-11-18) (age 64) New York City
Occupation	Singer, Stage / Film / television actor
Years active	1962–1970

Maggie Thrett, born Diane Pine,^[1] was a singer and stage, movie and television actress in the 1960s. Aged fifteen, she made her Off-Broadway debut in 1962 in Out Brief Candle.^[2] By the age of eighteen she was regularly performing as a dancer at Trude Heller's in Greenwich Village, New York, as noted in the January 1965 edition of Harper's Bazaar.^[3]

As a vocalist, Maggie Thrett recorded a single (under her birth name) entitled "Lucky Girl" for Take 3 Records in 1964,^[4] and had a minor US hit (as Maggie Thrett) in 1965 with "Soupy", produced by Bob Crewe and issued as the first single on the DynoVoice (formerly Dyno-Vox) label.^[5] Billboard journalist Aaron Sternfield, reviewing a live Maggie Thrett performance at Basin Street East, New York, on July 15, 1965, wrote that she "has a magnificent range, her phrasing and timing are near perfect, and she blends the right combination of sex and satire."^[6]

In 1966 Maggie Thrett went to Hollywood to further her acting career. As an actress, she is probably best remembered for her roles in a 1966 Star Trek episode ("Mudd's Women") and the 1968 comedy movie Three in the Attic. She also appeared as a prostitute in the 1970 movie Cover Me Babe. Having signed to Universal Studios, she is reported to have used her life savings to buy out her contract prior to appearing in Three in the Attic ^[7] for American International Pictures.

In May 1970, Maggie Thrett was involved in a road accident while a passenger on singer/songwriter Gram Parsons' motorcycle. Although she was apparently unharmed (Gram Parsons, meanwhile, suffered significant injuries),^[8] it was soon after this that she disappeared from the entertainment business, aged twenty-three.^[9]

Discography

• "Lucky Girl" / "Your Love is Mine" (Take 3 709, 1964)
• "Soupy" / "Put a Little Time Away" (DynoVoice/Bell 205, 1965)
• "Soupy" / "Put a Little Time Away" (Barry/Quality B-3347, 1965) (Canadian release)

A further DynoVoice single, "Walk On By", is referenced in Aaron Sternfield's Billboard review of Maggie Thrett's July 1965 Basin Street East performance.^[10] However, there is no evidence of this single's release in the DynoVoice singles catalog,^[11] nor does any other source appear to corroborate its existence.

Filmography

• Dimension 5 as 2nd Sister (1966 movie)
• Out of Sight as Wipe Out (1966 movie)
• Run for Your Life as Brenda in The Night of the Terror (1966 TV episode)
• Star Trek as Ruth in Mudd's Women (1966 TV episode)
• The Wild Wild West as Rita Leon in The Night of the Freebooters (1966 TV episode)
• I Love a Mystery (1967 TV movie)
• Dundee and the Culhane as Wimea in The Death of a Warrior Brief (1967 TV episode)
• The Wild Wild West as Deirdre (a.k.a. Topaz) in The Night of the Running Death (1967 TV episode)
• The Devil's Brigade as Millie (1968 movie)
• Three in the Attic as Jan (1968 movie)
• Cimarron Strip as Red Deer in Heller (1968 TV episode)
• I Dream of Jeannie as Joan in Never Put a Genie on a Budget (1969 TV episode)
• Lost Flight as 2nd Girl (1969 TV movie)
• Cover Me Babe as Prostitute (1970 movie)
• McCloud as Godiva in Manhattan Manhunt Part 1: Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue (1970 TV episode)
• The Most Deadly Game as Lisa in Model for Murder (1970 TV episode)

Notes

1. ^ Lisanti, Tom, & Paul, Louis. (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. McFarland & Co., p. 289. ISBN 978-0-786411-94-8
2. ^ Lisanti, Tom, & Paul, Louis. (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. McFarland & Co., p. 289. ISBN 978-0-786411-94-8
3. ^ It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago
4. ^ Norman Bergen Discography
5. ^ DynoVoice 45 Discography
6. ^ Didley group electric act. (1965, July 31). Billboard, p. 12.
7. ^ Lisanti, Tom, & Paul, Louis. (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. McFarland & Co., p. 291. ISBN 978-0-786411-94-8
8. ^ Meyer, David N. (2008). Twenty thousand roads: the ballad of Gram Parsons and his cosmic American music. Villard, p. 332. ISBN 978-0-345503-36-7
9. ^ Lisanti, Tom, & Paul, Louis. (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. McFarland & Co., p. 291. ISBN 978-0-786411-94-8
10. ^ Didley group electric act. (1965, July 31). Billboard, p. 12.
11. ^ DynoVoice 45 Discography

External links

• Maggie Thrett, Sixties Cinema
• Maggie Thrett at the Internet Movie Database
• Maggie Thrett at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

Persondata
Name	Thrett, Maggie
Alternative names	Pine, Diane
Short description	Singer and Stage, Film and television actress
Date of birth	November 18, 1946
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death
Place of death