Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Judby Hammond in the film Blackboard Jungle. She married actor Leif Erickson, but they divorced after a month. With her second husband, producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., she had a daughter, Tracy Brooks Swope, who is also an actress.

Margaret Hayes died in Miami Beach, Florida from liver cancer and hepatitis at the age of 61.

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