- She and her husband, director Tim Whelan, had two sons. Tim Whelan Jr. and Michael, the latter born with Down's Syndrome. Her husband died in 1957 and, tragically, both sons died within a span of nine months of each other in 1997. She has two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
- In 1953 she received her ASID certification and began working as an interior decorator, first with Harriet Shellenberger and later on her own. She did not retire until 1995.
- Actress from the early talkies era who made her film debut in 1929 but retired after a few years following marriage and the birth of her first son.
- Her parents were teachers. She was one of four daughters. Her father later opened up a hardware store but died when Miriam was 14.
- Her sister Sara Seegar, wed stage and radio actor Ezra Stone.
- The third of four sisters: Dr. Helen Seegar Stone (1895-1976) (educator); Dorothy Seegar (Broadway and opera singer); and the youngest Sara Seegar Stone (1914-90) (stage, film and TV character actress).
- Her biggest theatre hit was in London, replacing Sylvia Sidney in "Crime" at the Queen's Theatre in the West End.
- She made a series of guest appearances at film festivals which culminated in an award for her screen work from the Memphis Film Festival when she was 95.
- On her 102nd birthday she sailed from Southampton to New York on the RMS Queen Mary 2 and back again.
- As the Seegar sisters started acting and singing, Frank Seegar left teaching to open a hardware store in efforts to support his daughters' growing singing and acting pursuits.
- Miriam Seegar made her film debut in 1928 in The Price of Divorce, in which she starred alongside Frances Day and Rex Maurice. The film never was released, but was adapted for sound and released two years later as Such Is the Law.
- In 2000, at the age of 93, Seegar appeared in the documentary I Used to Be in Pictures, which featured commentary from many of her contemporaries.
- She met her future husband on the set of "When Knights Were Bold," a 1929 film he directed.
- In 1928, came her entry into to the movies, in When Knights Were Bold, costarring with Nelson Keyes, who chose her because, just a smidge over five feet, she was shorter than he was.
- After her acting career ended, Miriam Seegar Whelan became an interior designer in Los Angeles. She did not retire until 1995.
- In her teens she joined a traveling group of stage performers in the Midwest and New York. She eventually made her way to London and starred opposite Ernest Truex in a West End production of "Crime.".
- She began working as an interior decorator, first with Harriet Shellenberger in 1953 and later on her own. She did not retire until 1995.
- After graduation, she made her Broadway bow, as a Spanish blonde in a now-forgotten play at the 48th Street Theatre, followed by five more stage stints.
- Prolific producer Al Woods took notice, wanted her to change her name (she wouldn't), but sent her across the pond anyway to anchor the London company of his hit show Crime, in the role that made Sylvia Sidney a star in New York. It lasted a year, during which time the Prince of Wales, who loved American slang, came to see the show seven times.
- She left acting to raise the two sons she had with her husband Tim Whelan. He died in 1957.
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