Daisy DeWitt

Daisy DeWitt is the film and television name used by stage actress and comedienne Marian Mears (b. early 1900s, d. 1960s), who during the 1920s was featured in productions staged by her husband, John Henry Mears (b. 1878, d. 1956), notable Broadway producer and globe-circling world record holder in 1913 and again in 1928. The Mears couple divorced but remained lifelong friends and when Marian married again in 1950, to winery executive Ralph Koehler, Mears was best man at their wedding. Marian's bridesmaid was her longtime close friend, the glamorous film actress Hillary Brooke. In the early years of network television, billed as Daisy DeWitt, Marian performed brief comedy roles and walk-ons in episodes of the popular Abbott and Costello television program. She often served as stand-in for Hillary Brooke during the filming of television shows and motion pictures, including the 1952 movie "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd." In ill health, Marian spent her last years at the retiremen