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Nancy Malone was on the cover of Life magazine at age 11, had a starring role on Broadway at 17 and worked steadily as an actress in television in her 20s and 30s.
Though she was in demand, she feared for the future. "I'd seen actresses getting to the age of 45, having nowhere to go except Bloomingdale's or regional theater," Malone said in an interview for the 2002 book "Women Who Run the Show."
She drastically curbed her acting in the 1970s for the other side of the camera. Malone became not only an Emmy-winning producer and studio executive, but also -- in a move highly unusual for a woman at the time -- a director, working on shows such as "Dynasty," "Cagney & Lacey" and "Star Trek: Voyager."
Malone, 79, died Thursday at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte. The cause was pneumonia that arose from complications of leukemia, said publicist Harlan Boll.
Although Malone credits several men with helping her make the transitions in her career, she also keenly felt the prejudice against women. In the mid-1970s, Malone was made a vice president for television at 20th Century Fox, but not on a level playing field.
"The guys made more money than me, and I was doing the same job," she said in a 2010 interview recorded by the Academy of...