Mamo Clark

Mamo Clark was an American actress and author who began her screen career with a featured part in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), playing Miamiti, the wife of Fletcher Christian. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, she followed that debut with a part in Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, a serial, playing a Polynesian princess, then shared the screen with Movita, her co-star from Mutiny on the Bounty, in The Hurricane (1937). Clark took roles in several B-pictures set in the Pacific Islands, among them Hawaii Calls, and had a substantial part in One Million B.C. (1940) as the Queen of the Rock Tribe, acting with Lon Chaney Jr. That same year she appeared in The Girl From God's Country. Her screen work ended with a small part in Seven Sinners (1940), alongside Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. She died in 1986.