Piotrowski said she was a "brilliant actor" whose career included roles in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival."īut he added McGuire was interested in everything. In earlier years, he also studied law and functioned as her law clerk, typing briefs during the years McGuire was a lawyer in Alabama and California.Īlways a wisp of a woman, she "was dancing six hours a day, all aerobic," when Piotrowsky first met her, he said.īut the New Orleans native loved acting even more than dancing, and her roles in New York, including one for the Charles Winkler seat-gripper "Disturbed" (1990), led her to try out for director John Waters' "Cry-Baby." Waters already had gender-bending star Divine in mind for the role of tough-talking, even-tougher-looking Mona “Hatchet-Face” Malnorowski. "We would go to Hobby Lobby and she'd pick out these flowers and signs to hold," said Piotrowsky, who served as her photographer. Often, she was clutching a bouquet or a sign with a single word, backed by a rack of silk florals. McGuire developed a following with an almost daily Facebook blog containing inspirational sayings and meditations, appearing in them as a senior waif with large gray eyes, blond hair and a smile. "She was so kind," Hixson said."She never had a bad word to say about anyone." Naples resident Suzy Hixson, who has worked with Piotrowsky, recalled McGuire as a happy person. "She said she was feeling clammy, not well." "The doctor said she was on this for a while, but she had only mentioned it a day or two before I took her in," Piotrowsky said of the condition. When McGuire, 60, died of complications from pneumonia Wednesday at the Physicians Regional Hospital Pine Ridge campus in North Naples, it was a surprise to everyone.
After they moved to Naples two years ago, Piotrowsky, now 74, took a job to help the couple financially. Their overwhelmed insurance company paid nothing, Piotrowsky said. She developed skills as diverse as those of a dancer, lawyer, teacher, forensic interviewer and author.īut she and Piotrowsky, a former TV producer, lost everything when floods from Hurricane Katrina swept through their home in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 2005. McGuire, who lived in Naples with her partner, Gene Piotrowsky, died Wednesday at age 60 after a life filled with character, if not always beauty. The same could be said for the life of the actress who played that prickly role, Kim Diane McGuire. I got character! " the gang moll known as Hatchet-Face snarls at a judge in the cult classic film "Cry-Baby." "There's nothing the matter with my face.
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