Devoted sister, mother, wife, and aunt. Successful model and actress. Generous philanthropist and explorer of the world.
Maria is one of the models to appear at a fall fashion show in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel for the club season opening of the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aged.
| Director | James Sheldon |
| Producer | Winston Miller, Boris D. Kaplan |
| Production Company | Hubbell Robinson Productions, Revue Studios, MCA TV |
| Aired | March 12th, 1962, NBC |
| Cast | Robert Lansing (Det. Steve Carella), Ron Harper (Det. Bert Kling), Gregory Walcott (Det. Roger Havilland), Norman Fell (Det. Meyer Meyer), Lee Tracy (Otto Forman), Jack Hogan (Johnny Forman), Dennis McCarthy (Joe), Paul Genge (The Lieutenant), Paul Smith (Ed), Victor Creatore (Edward), Faye Nuell (Millie Haines), Allen Jung (Mike), James Hong (Mike II), Maria Tsien McClay (Mary), Gene Roth (Cassidy), William Bakewell (Mr. Somers), Dorothy Kingston (Mrs. Somers) |
Veteran patrolman Pat Forman, who is due to retire in a few days, is out on the beat showing the ropes to his replacement, Eddie Haines. A jangling burglar alarm sends them running to a
supermarket where Eddie is gunned down by the fleeing thief. What does Pat Forman know and how is he involved in this crime?
Maria plays Mary, a shop clerk and reluctant eye witness to a murder, being interviewed by the detectives. Understandably she is rather worried about retribution from the mob and about having to go to court and testifying in public. The detectives try to reassure her.
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| Director | Earl Bellamy |
| Producer | Everett Freeman |
| Production Company | Bachelor Productions, Revue Studios (later Universal Television) |
| Aired | February 20th, 1962, ABC |
| Cast | John Forsythe (Bentley Gregg), Noreen Corcoran (Kelly Gregg), Sammee Tong (Peter Tong), Allison Hayes (Loretta), Maria Tsien McClay (Lin Sing), Gary Clarke (Bruce Dalton) |
Bentley (John Forsythe) and Peter (Sammee Tong) panic when they hear from Kelly (Noreen Corcoran), who is waitressing in Yellowstone, and who informs them she’s getting married. They immediately head to the park to put a stop to her wedding to budding forest ranger Bruce Dalton (Gary Clarke).
While in Yellowstone both Bentley and Peter find themselves in the company of attractive and interesting women, Loretta Prentice (Allison Hayes), who manages the waitresses, and lepidopterist Lin Sing (Maria McClay). All three couples independently decide to spend some time in a near by mountain lodge, leading to all manners of confusion and hijinks and an encounter with a large bear.
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Maria is listed as a cast member for the Summer Romance episode of Bachelor Father (Season 5 Episode 22) set to be broadcast that evening.
Maria has been named model of the year 1962 for Japan Airlines. After a photo shoot with photographer Hal Adams in San Diego she will fly to Tokyo to promote Warner Bros.’ A Majority Of One, in which she played alongside Alec Guinness.
Maria appears in a brief blurb about her playing the role of a Japanese maid alongside Alec Guinness in A Majority Of One. For some reason her name is misspelled as “Maria Tsien McLay”. The blurb was printed, with the misspelling and all, in a number of newspapers throughout the month of May, 1961.
Maria appears in a brief blurb about her playing the role of a Japanese maid alongside Alec Guinness in A Majority Of One. For some reason her name is misspelled as “Maria Tsien McLay”. The blurb was printed, with the misspelling and all, in a number of newspapers throughout the month of May, 1961.
Maria appears in a brief blurb about her playing the role of a Japanese maid alongside Alec Guinness in A Majority Of One. For some reason her name is misspelled as “Maria Tsien McLay”. The blurb was printed, with the misspelling and all, in a number of newspapers throughout the month of May, 1961.
Maria appears in a blurb about that night’s episode of the Groucho Marx Show on which she is set to appear as a contestant. The same blurb appeared in a column in the Miami Herald and the Fort Lauderdale News on the same day.
| Host | Groucho Marx |
| Producer | John Guedel |
| Production Company | John Guedel Productions, NBC Studios Burbank |
| Aired | February 2nd, 1961 on NBC |
| Cast | Groucho Marx (Host), George Fenneman (Announcer & Assistant) Aden Lowry (Self, Contestant, Interior Decorator from Kansas), Maria McClay (Self, Contestant, Actress and Model) |
Maria appeared on an episode of the last season of Groucho Marx’s game show You Bet Your Life. the secret word for winning an extra $100 in this episode was “Dress”. Groucho coaxes Maria into saying the word adding to her winnings.
It’s wonderful to be able to see Maria being herself given that almost all other video we have is of her acting on screen. There’s a bit of casual sexism from Groucho that’s probably par-for-the-course for the late 50s/early 60s but once he gets that out of his system and doesn’t do any more of it, it’s lovely to just watch Maria be herself.
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