Mitzi Hoag

Mitzi Hoag
Mitzi Hoag and We'll Get By co-star Paul Sorvino.
Born	Margaret Hoag (1932-09-25) September 25, 1932 (age 84) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1955-1993
Spouse(s)	Jonathan David Beggs (1976 - present) Stephen Abel Wolfson (1959 - 1967, divorced) (1 child)

Mitzi Hoag (born Margaret Hoag on September 25, 1932) is an American TV actress. Over the course of her career, she has appeared in more than 73 different TV shows and movies. Notable among these are recurring roles in We'll Get By, Bonanza, Here Come the Brides, and "The Partridge Family."

Margaret M. Hoag was raised in North Olmsted, Ohio, near Cleveland, where her father John C. Hoag was a supervisor for the A&P store chain. She graduated from Cleveland's John Marshall High School in 1949. A straight-A student and head majorette of the marching band, she appeared in numerous high school stage productions, already using the nickname "Mitzi".

After high school, Hoag attended Shimer College, then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, completing her degree in two years under the radically flexible University of Chicago curriculum of Robert Maynard Hutchins. She chose Shimer for its small classes and the opportunity for horseback riding. Because Shimer was then closely affiliated with the University of Chicago, she is sometimes reported as having graduated from there.

When Hoag graduated from Shimer at age 19 in 1952, she was one of the first five Shimer students to receive the bachelor's degree. She was the only woman in the graduating class.

Hoag received a bachelor of arts in general education, and became a certified teacher, but her experiences with drama at Shimer turned her towards an acting career. After leaving Shimer, Hoag studied drama at the graduate level at Case Western Reserve University for two years.

In the mid-1950s, Hoag moved to New York, where she continued her study of acting with Herbert Berghof. She was cast in multiple off-Broadway shows, but these were all cancelled due to funding problems. Finally, she starred in the title role of the 1958 off-Broadway hit Heloise, an adaptation by James Forsyth of the story of Heloise and Abelard. The play, which won considerable critical acclaim, was produced primarily by erstwhile actors and staffers of Case Western's Eldred Theatre.