Marie Harmon

Marie Harmon (October 21, 1923 – January 25, 2021) was an American actress and businesswoman, who worked as an actress primarily in the 1940s during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her lead role in the 1946 American Western film The El Paso Kid, opposite Sunset Carson.

Harmon was born on October 21, 1923, in Chicago. She had five siblings, all brothers. As a child, she performed in local theater productions. At age 18, she moved to Hollywood to pursue a professional career in acting. Her acting debut was an uncredited role in the 1943 film Hers to Hold, starring Deanna Durbin and Joseph Cotten.

As a student at Oak Park High School, Harmon was a member of the Stevenson Players drama group.

In the 1950s, Harmon quit show business to open up a women's clothing store.

She was married three times. Her first husband was William G. Jones, a used car dealer. Their only child is actress Sondra Currie. They were divorced on June 18, 1948. She married Donald Currie in 1951. The couple had three children; twin daughters Cherie Currie (former lead vocalist of The Runaways), and Marie Currie, and a son Don Anthony Currie. She was the mother-in-law of Alan J. Levi, and formerly of Steven Lukather (guitarist of Toto) and Robert Hays. Harmon got divorced in 1972. Three years later, she married Wolfgang Kaupisch, a German Iron Cross recipient, and Veteran of the Luftwaffe, who died in on June 9, 2010, at the age of 95. She died in Los Angeles on January 25, 2021, of natural causes at the age of 97.

Despite her surname, Harmon was not related to the popular actor Mark Harmon, nor to his family, the Harmon–Nelson family (a well-known California show business family).