1943. Cecilia Meagher began modeling in 1936 when she was barely 17 years old. In the early 1940s she signed with Conover models. In 1942, she won a nationwide contest to find a girl to represent Coronet magazine in Cover Girl. 1943 is a big year for her. As well as going to Hollywood to make her first movie, she marries Bob Heasley, who will open a flying school in Arizona. Meanwhile she will change her stage name to Cissy Marr and star in a series of jukebox musicals before retiring from the screen in the late 1940s.
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