Early Life
Jill Banner was born Mary Molumby in Bremerton, Washington. Her ancestry probably lay with the Ó Maolanfaidh (rendered Melanophy, Molumby, Molumphy, Molamphy, and Mullamphy) family of County Tipperary. The Irish footballer, Stephen Molumphy (born 1984), is also of this family. An unrelated family with a similar surname, Ó Maolainbhthe, were of County Fermanagh . The immigrant John Mullanphy (1758-1833), and the footballer, Eugene Melaniphy (1912-1991), were of this family.
After her father's death in 1949, Molumby and her mother lived in South Dakota and Iowa, near several of their Irish relatives, finally ending up in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
She studied at the Hollywood Professional School, a K-12 school for working professional children run by Maurice and Bertha Mann. At HPS, classes typically ran from 8:45 AM to 12:45 PM, allowing the students the afternoon off to pursue various jobs or performing careers. The school assemblies, called "Aud. Calls", were early showcases for the talents of students aspiring to be dancers, singers, and actors. Banner’s classmates included actress Peggy Lipton (from TV's The Mod Squad), Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, and Disney Mouseketeer Cubby O'Brien. She graduated with the Class of 1964.
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