Mala Powers

Mala Powers was an American actress who began performing as a child in Los Angeles, where her family moved in 1940, and went on to work in radio drama at 16 before her first film roles in Outrage (1950) and Edge of Doom (1950). Stanley Kramer cast her as Roxane opposite José Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, a part that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. She appeared in City Beneath the Sea (1953), City That Never Sleeps (1953) and Rage at Dawn (1955), in science fiction such as The Colossus of New York (1958) and Doomsday Machine (1972), and had larger roles in Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969). She also made more than 100 television episodes, among them Perry Mason, Bonanza, Bewitched and Mission: Impossible, and played Mona in the final season of Hazel. Trained by Michael Chekhov, she later taught his technique and published his books.