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Margaret Hayden Rorke (June 19, 1883 – March 2, 1969) was an American color standards expert, actress, and suffragist who was for nearly 40 years the managing director of the Textile Color Card Association of the United States. She is known as "the most influential 'color forecaster' of the 1920s and 30s."
Margaret Hayden Rorke (mother) William Henry Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987), known professionally as Hayden Rorke, was an American actor best known for playing Colonel Alfred E. Bellows on the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie .
Hayden Rorke was born in Brooklyn on October 23, 1910 to Margaret Hayden Rorke and William Henry Rorke. He was actually named after his father, but he changed his name to Hayden while studying theater at Manhattan’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
By 1913, Margaret joined the Woman's Suffrage Party (WSP). She spoke out in favor of suffrage on the part of Catholic women in particular, and wrote a letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore James Gibbons seeking his thoughts on the issue.
Aug 20, 1987 · Veteran stage, screen and television actor Hayden Rorke, who played Dr. Bellows on 140 episodes of the popular TV series, “I Dream of Jeannie,” died Wednesday of cancer at his home in Toluca...
Margaret Hayden Rorke was an American color standards expert, actress, and suffragist who was for nearly 40 years the managing director of the Textile Color Card Association of the United States. She is known as "the most influential 'color forecaster' of the 1920s and 30s."
America’s first professional color forecaster, Margaret Hayden Rorke headed the association for nearly four decades. A former actress and suffragist, Rorke helped her male colleagues in manufacturing and retailing to understand what women expected of fashion.
