American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress

* 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress

* 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress

* 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress

* 1982 – Alana Austin, American actress

* 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress and model

* 1983 – Eliza Coupe, American actress

* 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American porn actress

* 1998 – Lily Jackson, American actress

* 1998 – Peyton List, American actress

* 1968 – Alicia Coppola, American actress

* 1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, producer, director, and author

* 1973 – Christina Moore, American actress

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress

* 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model

* 1987 – Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress

* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1973 – Kinna McInroe, American actress

* 1973 – Molly Henneberg, American journalist

* 1961 – Molly Hagan, American actress

* 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

* 1966 – Molly Price, American actress

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

* 1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress

* 2007 – Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author ( b. 1944 )

* 1898 – Molly Picon, American actress ( d. 1992 )

For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the " quintessential ' American religion '".

* 1993 – Molly C. Quinn, American actress

* 1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress

** Molly C. Quinn, American actress

* October ( date unknown ) – Molly Kiely, American cartoonist

** Molly Ringwald, American actress, singer and dancer

** Molly Picon, American actress ( b. 1898 )

** Molly Dodd, American actress ( died 1981 )

** Molly Jenson, American musician

Paul Leo Molitor ( born August 22, 1956 ), nicknamed " Molly " and " The Ignitor ", is an American former Major League Baseball designated hitter and infielder.

Irish rock bands The Cranberries and The Pogues ( with Spider Stacy as whistler ) incorporate the tin whistle in some of their songs, as do such American Celtic punk bands as The Tossers, Dropkick Murphys, and Flogging Molly ( in which Bridget Regan plays the instrument ).

Fibber McGee and Molly is an American radio comedy series which maintained its popularity over decades.

The Jordans ' participation in Look Who's Laughing was set up in the Fibber McGee & Molly episode " Amusement Park " ( 6 / 17 / 41 ), in which Gale Gordon played an RKO pictures representative who followed the McGees around the amusement park and chose the McGees as a representative American couple to star in a movie with Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

* Molly Malone ( actress ), American silent-film actress