[1] Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia, she was one of eight children of Barbara, who died when Marjorie was three years old, and Roy Anthony, a plumber.
Although interested in studying to become a nurse, she took a job as a script assistant, commentator, and singer at CBC-TV in Halifax.
She moved to work in Hollywood in the 1960s, and became vice-president, artist relations, for the company handling the Smothers Brothers.
Then she worked in New York at CBS Records, with such artists as Kenny Rogers, Barry Manilow, and Nana Mouskouri.
Her health deteriorated due to systemic lupus erythematosus and other illnesses, and she died in 2013 in Malibu, California at age 77.