Maggie Blye

Margaret Jane Blye (October 24, 1942 – March 24, 2016) was an American actress, also sometimes billed as Margaret Bly. She was best known for playing Michael Caine's girlfriend in The Italian Job (1969). Early years Her sister was casting director Judy Blye Wilson. After studying business at the University of Texas, she went to UCLA, where she became involved in acting. Her performance in a production of West Side Story there was seen by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox studios. Television Blye was a regular on the ABC-TV program Kodiak in the role of police radio dispatcher Maggie. She appeared in a number of popular television series. Among her first roles was that of defendant Betty Kaster in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Lover's Gamble." She also appeared on Hazel, Ben Casey and twice on Gunsmoke (credited as Margaret Bly playing the simply named character “Girl” in the 1964 episode “Journey For Three” - S9E36 and the following year in a much larger role as a conniving gold digger named “Karen” in S10E22’s “Winner Take All”).