MARY
ASTOR: Reluctant Legend
By Barrie Roberts
Among the legendary names of Hollywoodâs
Golden Age, Mary Astorâs star shines brightly. Strictly speaking, however,
Mary was never a star in the accepted sense of her time, but a featured
player. This was of her own choosing. Offered starring contracts at
various times, she preferred not to shoulder the responsibility of having
her name appear above the title of a film. This decision was due largely
to a lack of confidence generated by a childhood dominated by demanding
parents who looked upon her as a meal ticket. The public with whom she
was very popular nevertheless regarded her as a star. Her career lasted
an incredible 44 years, during which time she ran the gamut from limpid
ingenue to forceful character player.
She was born Lucile Vasconcells Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois,
on May 3, 1906, though sources in Quincy have given the birth year as
1903. Lucile was the only child of Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Langhanke and
his wife, Helen Vasconcells. Lucileâs father had immigrated from Germany
while her mother was the daughter of Portuguese-Irish farmers, who had
been in Illinois for a generation. Mr. Langhanke made his living teaching
German in public high school in Quincy, until the United States entered
the First World War in 1917 and an anti-German backlash led to the elimination
of most German language studies from American schools. Langhanke found
work only sporadically afterwards, forcing his wife to seek employment.
Helen, a frustrated actress found a position teaching drama and elocution.
She then encouraged her daughterâs interest in motion pictures and in
music. Lucileâs formal education was rudimentary, but her parents insisted
she study academics at home. She also took piano lessons. It was a lonely
childhood, but the girl with deep brown eyes, long auburn hair and a
maturity and intelligence beyond her years, was blossoming into a real
beauty. Ironically, her nickname was the tomboyish, Rusty.
In 1919 Lucile submitted her photograph to a Fame and
Fortune contest sponsored by Motion Picture magazine. She placed among
the finalists. This was enough to convince her father to move his family
to Chicago, where the magazine had offices. Deemed far too young, when
seen in person, she was advised to try again when she was older. She
did, and was again placed among the finalists. This time the judges
named her runner up in the national contest.
It was 1920, and Langhanke felt encouraged to move his
family once again, this time to New York to launch his daughterâs career.
Once in Manhattan Lucileâs picture caught the eye of photographer Charles
Albin, who shot a series of camera studies of the girl titled The Madonna
Child. These photographs were seen in turn by Harry Durant of Jesse
Laskyâs Famous Players company, and this led to a six-month contract
for Lucile with Paramount in New York. During a conference with writer
Louella Parsons and producer Walter Wanger, Jesse Lasky promptly renamed
the girl Mary Astor.
Her first appearance on screen was in a dream sequence
in Sentimental Tommy which starred Gareth Hughes. Hers was a small part,
which was unfortunately cut prior to the filmâs release. Her Paramount
contract expired without further screen exposure. Charles Albin, however,
got her parts in three short films, The Beggar Maid, The Young Painter,
and Hope which were directed by another photographer, Lejaren AâHiller.
These short films, with stories based on famous paintings, showed off
Maryâs beauty. She then secured small parts in the features John Smith
and The Man Who Played God. The year was 1922. Several other larger
parts followed in films for various companies.
Paramount again became interested in Mary, and she won
a one-year contract at $500 a week. She and her parents left for Hollywood
in April of 1923. She played in four films in fast succession before
Warner Bros. borrowed her to play the female lead opposite John Barrymore
in Beau Brummell. Filming commenced in September 1923, by which time,
despite the scrutiny of her parents, Mary had fallen in love with with
the older and more experienced Barrymore. ãThe Great Profileä not only
became Maryâs lover, but her mentor. He taught her acting techniques
and voice projection, believing she could become a great star. Perhaps
due to the Barrymore name, her parents turned a blind eye to the affair
in the hope that their daughterâs career would benefit. Mary, however,
was content to go on accepting any film role her studio offered and
accept direction without question. She later said she never went to
the front office to ask for any particular part, never fought for decent
stories, and avoided suspension at all costs.
Soon however, Barrymore had second thoughts about her
acting potential and abandoned his plan to appear on stage with her
in Shakespeareâs Hamlet. Barrymore not only took the Ophelia role from
Mary, he also replaced her as his lover with Dolores Costello, whom
he later married.
The Langhankes meanwhile bought a large home on Temple
Hill Drive in Los Angeles, which Otto proceeded to improve. They had
servants, a car, and a chauffeur. Mary, earning over $1000 a week, provided
sole income for the trio. In fact, Maryâs paychecks went directly to
her father, who acted as business manager. She received in turn a small
allowance.
Her Paramount contract over, she signed with Warner Bros.
in 1925. In 1926 she was named a Wampas Baby Star, along with Joan Crawford,
Dolores Del Rio, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor, Dolores Costello, and Mary
Brian. At this time, a great mountain of publicity was generated each
year for the Wampas Baby Stars, starlets deemed to be stars of the future.
Maryâs selection was a real honor and boded well for her career. Warners
meanwhile was content to use her in decorative roles in such films as
Don Juan, again with Barrymore; the lovely Rose of the Golden West ;
and The Sea Tiger with Milton Sills.
In 1928 Warners loaned Mary to Fox to appear in Dressed
To Kill, in which she had a more substantive part than usual. The story
involved a girl who poses as a gun moll in order to join a gang of thieves.
Her motive was to prove the innocence of her boy friend, accused of
their crime. Reviews were excellent, and when her contract with Warners
expired, Fox signed Mary to a pact at $3,750 a week. She had met director
Kenneth Hawks in 1927 and on February 26, 1928, the couple married.
She continued her acting career. Despite Mary now being a married woman,
salary checks still went directly to her father.
Inevitably, with the advent of talkies, Fox gave Mary
a sound test. The test failed miserably when it was found that the ethereal
madonna-like beauty had a deep voice. This vocal ãdefectä was mainly
due to the primitive sound equipment, and to sound technicians who were
still learning their trade. Never the less, Fox released her from her
contract.
At liberty, she enjoyed her husbandâs company, perfected
her golf handicap, swam, and rode horseback for exercise. It was friend
Florence Eldridge, wife of Fredric March who came to Maryâs rescue professionally.
Florence was to star with Edward Everett Horton in a stage play Among
the Married at the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles. She secured Mary
the second lead. The play was a success, and Maryâs voice, undistorted
by primitive sound equipment, was described by critics as low and vibrant,
instead of low and masculine. Within a week she had five offers to make
sound films after the close of the play. She signed a contract with
RKO-Pathe.
However, tragedy struck on January 2, 1930. Her husband
Kenneth was killed in a plane crash whe his plane collided with another
during the making of a film over the Pacific Ocean. Three weeks after
her husbandâs death, Mary started work on her first talking picture,
Ladies Love Brutes, co-starring her friend Fredric March and George
Bancroft. From that she immediately went into The Runaway Bride followed
by Holiday which starred Ann Harding as Maryâs sister. She and Ann later
became good friends and neighbors. However, delayed shock over the death
of Kenneth Hawks caught up with Mary. She suffered a nervous collapse.
She was attended during the months of her illness by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe.
Mary married Franklyn Thorpe in June 1931. Struggling
to establish a medical practice, Thorpe urged Mary to take control of
her finances. The inevitable confrontation caused a rift between her
and her parents.
The couple purchased a yacht and sailed for Hawaii. Mary
was pregnant; and on June 16, 1932, she gave birth to a daughter, Marylyn
Hauoli Thorpe in Honolulu. The first name was a combination of Mary
and Franklyn, while Hauoli in Hawaiian meant, ãTo sing with joy.ä Returning
to Hollywood, her RKO contract concluded, she freelanced, drawing an
excellent part with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in Red Dust. The story
was set on a rubber plantation in Indo-China. Mary played the frustrated
young wife of Gene Raymond, who during her husbandâs absence has a torrid
affair with Gable. The part once again opened doors for Mary, but she
still refused the responsibility of starring in her own right. She dreaded
interviews, photographic sessions, and most publicity. She accepted
a featured player contract with Warner Bros. in late 1932, largely due
to depleted finances. Her parents had spent lavishly and invested in
the stock market with poor results. The Depression was then gripping
the United States, and Mary had a need for security.
After appearing in a number of films including The Little
Giant with Edward G. Robinson, The World Changes with Paul Muni, and
The Kennel Murder Case with William Powell, Mary, exhausted, took a
vacation in New York - alone. Arriving in Manhattan in the fall of 1933,
she immediately felt rejuvenated. She met exciting, intelligent people;
conversation was stimulating; there was the theater, parties, and nightclubs
to visit. This all led to her meeting George Kaufmann, the playwright.
They had a brief affair.
In 1934 Mary was sued by her father for non support. Despite
the enormous financial aid she had given her parents over the years,
the court ordered her to pay them a weekly allowance. Then, in 1935,
Franklyn Thorpe filed for divorce from Mary, citing adultery with George
Kaufmann and others. Mary had kept a diary from 1929 through 1934, and
this was introduced by her husband as evidence in the fight for custody
of daughter Marylyn. The diary was reputed to contain passages explicitly
rating the sexual prowess of Maryâs many lovers. The press immediately
labeled it the ãPurple Diaryä and it became headline news during the
summer of 1936.
Mary was filming Dodsworth for Samuel Goldwyn. The film
was too far along for her to be replaced on a morals clause; consequently,
Goldwyn and other studio chiefs such as Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn
of Columbia, to whom Mary was then under contract, lent support. The
diary was never actually seen by the public, and reports of the contents
were purely speculative. Mary won custody of Marylyn for six months
of each year. She had asserted most of the pages of the diary submitted
in court were forgeries. When Dodsworth was released, notices were excellent,
and the film itself became a classic. Luckily, Maryâs career had not
been damaged by the scandal.
Apart from And Then They Were Married, a diverting romantic
comedy with Melvyn Douglas, her Columbia films were inconsequential.
Her loan outs were much better.
Samuel Goldwyn once again borrowed her, this time for
The Hurricane. In the film she had an extremely strenuous role. She
played the wife of the French governor of a small Pacific Island, which
is destroyed in the hurricane. She is rescued from certain death by
islander Jon Hall, in a spectacular water soaked climax. She also had
a part as Antoinette in David Selznickâs The Prisoner of Zenda which
co-starred Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, and Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr.
1937 was another eventful year for Mary. In February she
married for a third time, to Manuel Del Campo. She also returned to
the stage. She appeared in a series of Noel Coward plays at the Biltmore
Theater in Los Angeles. They were Tonight at 8:30, The Astonished Heart,
and Still Life. The latter was produced on film as Brief Encounter in
1945, with Celia Johnson in Maryâs role of the suburban wife who falls
in love with a married doctor. Her co-stars in the plays were Bramwell
Fletcher, Helen Chandler, and Estelle Winwood. Notices were excellent
for plays and players.
In 1938 freelancing again she was at MGM to play Judy
Garlandâs widowed mother who is romantically paired with Walter Pidgeon
in Listen Darling. It was a light hearted diversion. It was also proposed
at the time that MGM would send Mary to England to replace Elizabeth
Allan in the lead opposite Robert Donat in their British production
The Citadel. The studio ultimately decided on the less expensive contractee
Rosalind Russell to play the part of Doctor Donatâs wife.
Mary became a regular performer on radio. She was heard
on Lux Theater in such as These Three with Barbara Stanwyck and Errol
Flynn, Bullets and Ballots with Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart,
Interference with Leslie Howard and Herbert Marshall, and Trade Winds
with Errol Flynn and Joan Bennett. She also played in Screen Actors
Guild, Suspense, and Mercury theater radio programs.
Mary was pregnant during the filming of Midnight which
starred Claudette Colbert and was released in 1939. The film had a longer
schedule than anticipated, and many tricks had to be used to conceal
Maryâs condition from the camera. Mary played John Barrymoreâs wife.
She was reportedly shocked and saddened at his physical condition and
appearance at the time. He would die in 1942.
In the spring of 1939 she gave birth to a son, Anthony,
known at Tono. Back at work, she appeared with Elliott Nugent in The
Male Animal on stage in Los Angeles. She had to refuse to go on to Broadway
with the play on account of her family. The play turned out to be a
major New York hit in 1940.
In Hollywood she drew a good part in Brigham Young at
Fox. She was the principal wife of the title character, played by Dean
Jagger. The romantic leads were Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, but
the acting honors went to Mary and Dean.
Over at Warner Bros. Bette Davis was to star in The Great
Lie, the story of the rivalry of two women for the love of aviator George
Brent. Mary, along with Muriel Angelus, Anna Sten, and Sigrid Gurie
tested for the part of Sandra, a self-centered concert pianist. Davis
liked Maryâs test and demanded she be signed for the part. Maryâs adept
handling of the piano keys in the test, in which she played Tschaikovskyâs
Piano Concerto No. 1, convinced the studio that Davis was right. In
the released film it is actually Max Rabinovitch who is heard playing
the concerto on the soundtrack. Mary, always pliable and willing to
take orders, was one of the few major players who got along with and
became a friend of the volatile Bette. In fact, Davis, in order to strengthen
the story, threw the film in Maryâs direction. So much so, that Mary
won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her part in the
film in 1941.
This led to the best role of her career, that of the duplicitous
Brigid OâShaughnessy in the classic The Maltese Falcon opposite Humphrey
Bogart. In fast company with supporting players such as Sydney Greenstreet,
Peter Lorre, and Lee Patrick, Mary got superb notices. She was cast
again with Bogart in the exciting spy melodrama Across the Pacific.
For a change of pace she journeyed over to Paramount to appear in The
Palm Beach Story with Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea. In this she
wore an unbecoming blonde wig, as the much married socialite, but her
deft comedy playing was much applauded by the critics. At this time
she had a successful weekly radio show, Hollywood Showcase, in which
she introduced new talent. In 1942 she also found time to reprise her
role in The Great Lie for Lux Radio Theater. She was heard with George
Brent and Loretta Young, playing the Bette Davis role.
Otto Langhanke died in 1943; her mother shortly after.
World War II was well underway, her husband Manuel was away in the air
force, and she had two children to bring up. MGM offered her a lucrative
seven-year contract. She signed with them in 1943. Professionally, it
was a major mistake.
MGM could only see Mary as a sophisticated mother figure,
showing concerned sympathy during the romantic shenanigans of such as
Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, and Elizabeth Taylor, among
others. She played in Young Ideas and Thousands Cheer. After having
completed Meet Me In St. Louis, Mary persuaded MGM to allow her to make
her Broadway debut. The play Many Happy Returns co-starred Henry Hull
who was later replaced by Neil Hamilton. It opened in Boston on December
25, 1944 to disastrous notices. It limped to Broadway where it played
only six performances before closing. The play was panned by all, however,
it garnered approval for Maryâs looks and ability, and an invitation
was issued to return in ãsomething good.ä Back in Hollywood MGM kept
her idle for a year although she continued to draw her salary. There
was an offer from Noel Coward in London to star with Rex Harrison in
the film version of his Blithe Spirit, but MGM refused to permit it,
arguing they may need her for ãsomething.ä The part eventually played
by Constance Cummings could have rescued Mary from MGM mediocrity. In
May of 1945, Mary penned an article for Photoplay magazine titled ãWill
He Want To Come Home,ä in which she expressed the fears of wartime wives
that their husbands would not want to return to domestic life after
their wartime experiences. Ironically, this is exactly what happened
to Maryâs own marriage to Manuel Del Campo. He had joined the Army Air
Force as a pilot and had been stationed in England. Mary later said
she was ãDear Janedä by air mail.
Not long single, she married again on Christmas Day 1945.
Her fourh husband was Thomas Wheelock, a former sergeant in the United
States Army.
Eventually, in 1946, she was loaned to Fox to play a wealthy
widow who nearly separates Robert Young from his wife, Dorothy McGuire
in Claudia and David. She was also loaned to Paramount for Desert Fury.
It was another mother role, but this time a substantive part, that of
a tough as nails casino owner who vies with her daughter, played by
Lizabeth Scott, for the attention of John Hodiak. Burt Lancaster also
starred.
Back at MGM, however, she had more non descript mother
parts in such as Cynthia and Fiesta. The last straw as she later stated
was her appearance as Marmee in the 1949 version of Little Women. During
the long filming she became despondent and was unable to appreciate
the high spirits of the younger members of the cast. Despite being offered
a renewed contract and a promise of better roles, she asked for and
gained her release from the studio. Totally demoralized and at liberty,
she started to drink heavily. As early as the late 1930s she had admitted
to an alcohol problem. Apparently this did not interfere with her work
performance at first, but it led to a suicide attempt in 1951. She was
hospitalized after a frantic call to her doctor, informing him she had
taken pills. The tragedy made newspaper headlines. Her recovery began
with her joining Alcoholics Anonymous, and with her conversion to the
Roman Catholic faith. She also separated from her husband Thomas Wheelock,
although they did not officially divorce until 1955.
In 1952, ready to work again, she accepted the leading
role in a touring company production of Time of the Cuckoo. This play
was filmed in 1955 as Summertime, a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn.
Arriving back in New York from her tour, she stayed there
for four years working constantly in the theater and on television.
She made her television debut on February 3, 1954, in The Missing Years
for Kraft Theater. Thereafter, she was a frequent performer in the medium.
She played most of the major shows of the time, including Playhouse
90, Alfred Hitchcock, U.S. Steel Hour, Climax, and Studio One. She was
also on Broadway in a play The Starcross Story with Eva Le Gallienne,
but it was not a success.
Mary returned to California in 1956. She immediately signed
to go out on another tour, this time under the direction of Agnes Moorehead
in Don Juan in Hell, co-starring Ricardo Montalban, Kurt Kaszner, and
Reginald Denny. The tour was successful. She also played parts in several
films, the best of which were Stranger in My Arms in 1959 and Return
to Peyton Place in 1961. In both she played domineering mothers. Better
roles came via television. There was much praise for her performance
as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, the part Gloria Swanson played
in the 1950 film. She also had good parts in Dinner at Eight, The Snows
of Kilimanjaro, The Women, The Star, and The Philadelphia Story, among
others.
In 1959, always fond of writing, she penned her autobiography,
ãMy Story,ä which proved to be a best seller and a sensation for its
time. She discussed her battle with alcohol, her failed marriages, and
life in general, but steadfastly refused to discuss her film career.
She then tried fiction, eventually writing five novels. Titles included
ãThe Incredible Charley Carewe,ä ãA Place Called Saturday,ä and ãImage
of Kate.ä The books enjoyed moderate success.
In 1964 she was offered a cameo role with Bette Davis in
the gothic thriller Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, in which she would play
an old lady, who when young had committed murder. She had paid blackmail
ever since. Mary decided this role would serve as a fitting finale to
her acting career, especially since it would be in a film with Bette
Davis. She retired from acting but continued her writing. In 1971 she
penned ãA Life on Film,ä in which she discussed her film career, which
she had resolutely refused to do in ãMy Storyä twelve years before.
This also became a best seller.
In 1976 she left her home in Fountain Valley, California,
where she had lived close to her son and his family, to enter the Motion
Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills. She was suffering from a chronic
heart condition. Always reluctant to meet fans, she refused to accept
visitors other than family and personal friends while a resident at
the Country Home. She also refused fan mail. All letters received, an
enormous amount, were returned unopened.
By 1987 Maryâs health had deteriorated considerably. Her
heart problems had worsened. She had suffered a heart attack and two
strokes and developed emphysema. She died at 1:30 PM on September 25,
1987, at the hospital which was a part of the Motion Picture Home. After
a Roman Catholic service her body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery
in Los Angeles on September 28, 1987. Surviving were her daughter, Marylyn,
son Anthony, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
THE
FILMS OF MARY ASTOR
1. The Beggar Maid. Triart short
subject 1921. Directed by Lejaren AâHiller. With Reginald Denny, MA.
MA in the title role.
2. The Young Painter. Triart short subject 1921.
Directed by Lejaren AâHiller. With MA.
3. Hope. Triart short subject 1921. Directed by
Lejaren AâHiller. With W. J. Gross, MA, Ralph Faulkner, Fred Gamble,
Regan Stewart. MA as Joan, lighthouse keeperâs daughter.
4. John Smith. Select 1922. Directed by Victor Heerman.
With Eugene OâBrien, Viva Ogden, W. J. Ferguson, Tammany Young, Estar
Banks, Frankie Mann, MA, George Fawcett, Barney Sherry, John Butler,
Walter Greene, Warren Cook, Henry Sedley, Daniel Haynes. MA as Irene
Mason, a maid.
5. The Man Who Played God. United Artists 1922.
Directed by Harmon Weight. With George Arliss, Ann Forrest, Ivan Simpson,
Edward Earle, Effie Shannon, Miriam Battista, Mickey Bennett, MA, Pierre
Gendron, Margaret Seddon, J.D. Walsh. MA as ãyoung woman..
6. Second Fiddle. Hodkinson 1923. Directed by Frank
Tuttle. With Glenn Hunter, MA, Townsend Martin, William Nally, Leslie
Stowe, Mary Foy, Helenka Adamowska, Otto Lang, Osgood Perkins. MA as
Polly Crawford, the heroine.
7. Success. Metro 1923. Directed by Ralph Ince.
With Brandon Tynan, Naomi Childers, MA, Dore Davidson, Lioel Adams,
Stanley Ridges, Robert Lee Keeling, Billy Quirk. MA as Rose Randolph,
an actress.
8. The Bright Shawl. Assoc FN Pictures, 1923. Directed
by John S. Robertson. With Richard Barthelmess, Andre Beranger, Edward
G. Robinson, Margaret Seddon, MA, Lis Alberni, Anders Randolph, Dorothy
Gish, William Powell, Jetta Goudal, George Humbert. MA as Narcissa Escobar,
a Cuban girl.
9. The Rapids. Hodkinson 1923. Produced in Canada.
Dircted by David M. Hartford. With Harry T. Morey, MA, Walter Miller,
Frank Andrews. MA as the herione.
10. Puritan Passions. Hodkinson 1923. Directed by
Frank Tuttle. With Glenn Hunter, MA, Osgood Perkins, Maude Hill, Frank
Tweed, Dwight Wiman, Thomas Chalmers. MA as Rachael Wingate, a girl
accused of witchcraft in Salem.
11. The Marriage Maker. Paramount 1923. Directed
by William de Mille. With Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt, Charles La Roche,
Robert Agnew, MA, Ethel Wales, Bertram Johns. MA as Vivian Hope-Clarke,
a society girl.
12. Hollywood. Paramount 1923. Directed by James
Cruze. With Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette,
Harris Gordon, Bess Flowers, Eleanor Lawson, King Zany, Roscoe Arbuckle,
Gertrude Astor, MA, Agnes Ayres, Baby Peggy Montgomery, T. Roy Barnes,
Noah Beery, Sr., William Boyd, Clarence Burton, Robert Cain, Edythe
Chapman, Cecil B. DeMille, Viola Dana, Ricardo Cortez, Betty Compson,
William deMille, Charles De Roche, Dinky Dean, Helen Dunbar, Snitz Edwards,
George Fawcett, Julia Faye, James Finlayson, Alec B. Francis, Jack Gardner,
Sid Grauman, Alfred E. Green, Alan Hale, Lloyd Hamilton, Hope Hampton,
William S. Hart, Gale Henry, Walter Hiers, Stuart Holmes, Sigrid Holmquist,
Jack Holt, Leatrice Joy, Mayme Kelso, J. Warren Kerrigan, Theodore Kosloff,
Lila Lee, Lillian Leighton, Jacqueline Logan, May McAvoy, Robert McKim,
Jeanie MacPherson, Hank Mann, Joe Martin, Thomas Meighan, Bull Montana,
Owen Moore, Kalia Pasha, Eileen Percy, Carmen Phillips, Pola Negri,
Nita Naldi, Anna Q. Nilsson, Charles Ogle, Guy Oliver, Jack Pickford,
Chuck Reisner, Fritzi Ridgeway, Will Rogers, Ford Sterling, Anita Stewart,
George Stewart, Gloria Swanson, Estelle Taylor, Ben Turpin, Bryant Washburn,
Maude Wayne, Claire West, Laurence Wheat, Lois Wilson. MA with a host
of other stars played herself.
13. Woman Proof. Paramount 1923. Directed by Alfred
E. Green. With Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, John Sainpolis, Louise Dresser,
Robert Agnew, MA, Edgar Norton, Charles Sellon, George OâBrien, Vera
Reynolds, Hardee Kirkland, Martha Mattox, William Gonder, Mike Donlin.
MA as Violet Lynwood, a wealthy girl.
14. The Fighting Coward. Paramont 1924. Directed
by James Cruze. With Ernest Torrence, MA, Noah Beery, Sr., Cullen Landis,
Phyllis Haver, G. Rayond Nye, Richard Neill, Carmen Phillips, Bruce
Covington, Helen Dunbar, Frank Jonasson. MA as Lucy, heroine.
15. Beau Brummell. Warner 1924. Directed by Harry
Beaumont. With John Barrymore, MA, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers, Irene
Rich, Alec B. Francis, William Humphreys, Richard Tucker, Andre Beranger,
Clarissa Selwynne, John J. Richardson, Claire De Lorez, James Marcus,
Richard Dark, Betty Brice, Roland Rushton, Carol Holloway, Kate Lester,
Rose Dione. MA as Lady Margery Alvanley, Brummellâs true love.
16. The Fighting American. Universal 1924. Directed
by Tom Forman. With Pat OâMalley, MA, Raymond Hatton, Warner Oland,
Edwin Brady, Taylor Carroll, Clarence Geldert, Alfred Fisher, Jack Byron,
James Wang, Emmett King, Jane Starr, Frank Kingsley. MA as Mary OâMallory,
a missionary.
17. Unguarded Women. Paramount 1924. Directed by
Alan Crosland. With Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix, MA, Walter McGrail, Frank
Losee, Helen Lindroth, Harry Mestayer, Donald Hall, Joseph King. MA
as Helen Castle, the heroine.
18. The Price of a Party. Associated Exhibitors.
1924. Directed by Charles Giblyn. With Hope Hampton, Harrison Ford,
Arthur Carewe, MA, Dagmar Godowsky, Fred Hadley, Edna Richmond, Donald
Lashey, Florence Richardson. MA as Alice Barrows, an innocent in New
York.
19. Inez From Hollywood. First National 1924. Directed
by Alfred E. Green. With Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis Stone, MA, Laurence
Wheat, Rose Dione, Snitz Edwards, Harry Depp, Ray Hallor, E. H. Calvert.
MA as Fay Bartholdi, innocent sister of Inez.
20. Enticement. First National 1925. Directed by
George Archainbaud. With MA, Clive Brook, Ian Keith, Louise Dresser,
Edward Norton, Vera Lewis, Lillian Langdon, Lorimer Johnston, Maxine
Elliott Hicks, Fenwick Oliver, Florence Wix, George Bunny, Roland Bottomley,
Aileen Manning. MA as Lenore Bewlay, a wife unjustly accused of infidelity.
21. Oh, Doctor. Universal 1925. Directed by Harry
A. Pollard. With Reginald Denny, MA, Otis Harlan, William V. Mong, Tom
Ricketts, Lucille Ward, Mike Donlin, Clarence Geldert, Blanche Payson,
George Kuwa, Martha Mattox, Helen Lynch. MA as Dolores Hicks, a nurse.
22. Playing With Souls. First National 1925. Directed
by Ralph Ince. With Jacqueline Logan, MA, Belle Bennett, Clive Brook,
William Collier, Jr., Jessie Arnold, Don Marion, Helen Hoge, Josef Swickard.
MA as Margo, the heroine.
23. Don Q, Son of Zorro. United Artists. Directed
by Donald Crisp. With Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., MA, Jack McDonald, Donald
Crisp, Stella De Lanti, Warner Oland, Jean Hersholt, Albert MacQuarrie,
Lottie Pickford, Charles Stevens, Tote Du Crow, Martha Franklin, Juliette
Belanger, Roy Coulson, Enrique Acosta. MA as Dolores De Muro, a Spanish
Generalâs daughter.
24. The Pace That Thrills. First National, 1925.
Directed by Webster Campbell. With Ben Lyon, MA, Charles Beyer, Tully
Marshall, Wheeler Oakman, Thomas Holding, Evelyn Hall, Warner Richmond,
Fritzi Brunette, Paul Ellis. MA as Doris the heroine.
25. Scarlet Saint. First National 1925. Directed
by George Archainbaud. With MA, Lloyd Hughes, Frank Morgan, Jed Prouty,
J. W. Jenkins, Frances Grant, George Neville, Jack Raymond. MA as Fidele
Tridon, daughter of a wealthy New Orleans businessman.
26. High Steppers. First National 1926. Directed
by Edwin Carewe. With Lloyd Hughes, MA, Dolores Del Rio, Rita Carewe,
John T. Murray, Edwards Davis, Alec B. Francis, Clarissa Selwynne, Charles
Sellon, John Steppling, Emily Fitzroy, Margaret McWade. MA as Audrey
Nye, a newspaper reporter.
27. The Wise Guy. First National 1926. Directed by Frank
Lloyd. With MA, James Kirkwood, Betty Compson, George F. Marion, Mary
Carr, George Cooper. MA as Mary, crooked daughter of a minister.
28. Forever After. First National 1926. Directed
by F. Harmon Weight. With Lloyd Hughes, MA, Hallam Cooley, David Torrence,
Eulalie Jensen, Alec B. Francis, Lila Leslie. MA as Jennie Clayton,
daughter of a wealthy family.
29. Don Juan. Warner Bros. 1926. Directed by Alan
Crosland. With John Barrymore, MA, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Helene
Costello, Myrna Loy, Jane Winton, John Roche, June Marlowe, Yvonne Day,
Philippe De Lacey, Warner Oland, Montagu Love, Helena DâAlgy, Josef
Swickard, Lionel Braham, Phyllis Haver, Nigel De Brulier, Hedda Hopper,
Helen Lee Worthing, Emily Fitzroy, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Sheldon Lewis,
Gibson Gowland, Dick Sutherland, John George. MA as Adrianna Della Varnese,
the true love of Don Juan.
30. The Sea Tiger. First National 1926. Directed
by John Francis Dillon. With Milton Sills, MA, Larry Kent, Alice White,
Kate Price, Arthur Stone, Emily Fitzroy, Joe Bonomo. MA as Amy, daughter
of a Spanish grandee.
31. The Rough Riders. Paramount 1927. Directed by
Victor Fleming. With Noah Beery, Sr., Charles Farrell, George Bancroft,
MA, Charles Emett Mack, Frank Hopper, Fred Lindsay, Fred Kohler, Sr.
MA as Dolly, the heroine.
32. The Sunset Derby. First National 1927. Directed
by Albert Rogell. With MA, William Collier, Jr., Ralph Lewis, David
Kirby, Lionel Belmore, Burt Ross, Henry Barrows, Bobby Doyle, Michael
Visaroff. MA as Molly Gibson, a racehorse ownerâs daughter.
33. Rose of the Golden West. First National 1927.
Directed by George Fitzmaurice. With MA, Gilbert Roland, Gustav Von
Seyffertitz, Montagu Love, Flora Finch, Harvey Clark, Roel Muriel, Andre
Cheron, Romaine Fielding, Thur Fairfax, William Conklin, Christina Montt,
Cullen Tate. MA as Elena Vallero, a convent notive, who falls in love.
34. Two Arabian Nights. United Artists 1927. Directed
by Lewis Milestone. With William Boyd, MA, Louis Wolheim, Michael Vavitch,
Ian Keith, DeWitt Jennings, Michael Visaroff, Boris Karloff. MA as Anis
Bin Adham, an Arab girl of rank.
35. No Place To Go. First National 1927. Directed
by Mervyn Le Roy. With MA, Lloyd Hughes, Hallam Cooley, Myrtle Stedman,
Virginia Lee Corbin, Jed Prouty, Russ Powell. MA as Sally Montgomery,
a bankerâs daughter.
36. Sailorâs Wives. First National 1928. Directed
by Joseph E. Henabery. With MA, Lloyd Hughes, Earle Foxe, Burr McIntosh,
Ruth Dwyer, Jack Mower, Olive Tell, Robert Schable, Gayne Whitman, Bess
True. MA as Carol Trent, a girl facing blindness.
37. Dressed To Kill. Fox 1928. Directed by Irving
Cummings. With Edmund Lowe, MA, Ben Bard, Robert Perry, Joe Brown, Tom
Dugan, John Kelly, Robert Emmett OâConnor, Richard O. Penell, Edward
Brady, Charles Morton. MA as Jeanne, who poses as a gang moll.
38. Three-Ring Marriage. First National 1928. Directed
by Marshall Neilan With MA, Lloyd Hughes, Lawford Davidson, Yola DâAvril,
Alice White, Harry Earles, Tiny Earles, George Reed, R. E. Madsen, Anna
MacGruder, James Neill, Del Henderson, Rudy Cameron, Skeets Gallagher,
Jay Eaton, Art Rollins. MA as Anna Montana, a circus trick rider.
39. Heart To Heart. First National 1928. Directed
by William Beaudine. With MA, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Littlefield,
Thelma Todd, Raymond McKee, Virginia Grey, Aileen Manning. MA as Princess
Delatorre, young widow of Italian royalty.
40. Dry Martini. Fox 1928. Directed by H. DâAbbadie
DâArrast. With MA, Matt Moore, Jocelyn Lee, Sally Eilers, Albert Gran,
Albert Conti, Tom Ricketts, Hugh Trevor, John Webb Dillon, Marcelle
Corday. MA as Elizabeth Quimby, a fun loving flapper.
41. Romance of the Underworld. Fox 1928. Directed
by Irving Cummings. With MA, Ben Bard, Robert Elliott, John Boles, Oscar
Apfel, Helen Lynch, William H. Tooker. MA as Judith Andrews, a prostitute
who goes straight.
42. New Yearâs Eve. Fox 1929. Directed by Henry
Lehrman. With MA, Charles Morton, Earle Foxe, Florence Lake, Arthur
Stone, Helen Ware, Freddie Burke Frederick, Jane La Verne, Sumner Getchell,
Stuart Erwin, Virginia Vance. MA as Marjorie Ware, a girl accused of
murder.
43. The Woman From Hell. Fox 1929. Directed by A.
F. Erickson. With MA, Robert Armstrong, Dean Jagger, Roy DâArcy, May
Boley, James Bradbury, Sr. MA as Bee, a girl from a side show who marries
a lighthouse keeper.
44. Ladies Love Brutes. Paramount 1930. Directed
by Rowland V. Lee. With George Bancroft, MA, Fredric March, Margaret
Quimby, Stanley Fields, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Lawford Davidson, Ferike
Boros, David Durand, Freddie Burke Frederick, Paul Fix, Claud Allister,
E. H. Calvert, Crauford Kent. MA as Mimi Howell, a society woman.
45. The Runaway Bride. RKO 1930. Directed by Donald
Crisp. With MA, Lloyd Hughes, David Newell, Natalie Moorhead, Maurice
Black, Paul Hurst, Edgar Norton, Francis McDonald, Harry Tenbrook, Phil
Brady, Theodore Lorch. MA as Mary Gray, a newlywed, who gets innocently
involved with crooks.
46. Holiday. RKO 1930. Directed by Edward H. Griffith.
With Ann Harding, MA, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames, Hedda Hopper,
Monroe Owsley, William Holden, Elizabeth Forrester, Mabel Forrest, Creighton
Hale, Hallam Cooley, Mary Forbes. MA as Julia Seton a spoiled society
girl.
47. The Lash (aka Adios). Warner Bros. 1930.
Directed by Frank Lloyd. With Richard Barthelmess, MA, Fred Kohler,
Sr., Marian Nixon, James Rennie, Robert Edeson, Arthur Stone, Barbara
Bedford, Mathilde Comont, Erville Alderson. MA as Rosita Garcia, a high
born Mexican-American.
48. The Royal Bed. RKO 1931. Directed by Lowell
Sherman. With Lowell Sherman, MA, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor, Nance
OâNeil, Robert Warwick, Gilbert Emery, Alan Roscoe, Frederic Burt, J.
Carrol Naish, Desmond Roberts, Lita Chevret, Nancy Lee Blaine. MA as
Princess Anne, who loves a commoner.
49. Other Menâs Women/The Steele Highway. Warner
Bros. 1931. Directed by William A. Wellman. With Grant Withers, MA,
Regis Toomey, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Fred Kohler, Sr., J. Farrell
MacDonald, Lillian Worth, Walter Long, Bob Perry, Kewpie Morgan, Lee
Morgan, Pat Hartigan. MA as Lily, a wife who falls in love with husbandâs
best friend.
50. Behind Office Doors. RKO 1931. Directed by Melville
Brown. With MA, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen, Kitty
Kelly, Edna Murphy, Charles Sellon, William Morris, George MacFarlane.
MA as Mary Linden, a business secretary.
51. The Sin Ship. RKO 1931. Directed by Louis Wolheim.
With Louis Wolheim, MA, Ian Keith, Hugh Herbert, Russ Powell, Alan Roscoe,
Bert Stanley. MA as ãFriscoä Kitty, a gang moll who reforms.
52. White Shoulders. RKO 1931. Directed by Melville
Brown. With MA, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez, Sidney Toler, Kitty Kelly,
Nicholas Soussanin, Robert Keith. MA as Norma Selbee Kent, a showgirl
who marries a millionaire.
53. Smart Woman. RKO 1931. Directed by Gregory La
Cava. With MA, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton, Noel
Francis, Ruth Weston, Gladys Gale, Alfred Cross, Lillian Harmer, Pearl
Varvelle. MA as Nancy Gibson, a wealthy wife, whose husband strays.
54. Men of Chance. RKO 1932. Directed by George
Archainbaud. With Ricardo Cortez, MA, John Halliday, Ralph Ince, Kitty
Kelly, James Donlan, George Davis, Andre Cheron, Albert Petit, Jean
De Briac. MA as Marthe Preston, a down and out showgirl who poses as
a countess.
55. The Lost Squadron. RKO 1932. Directed by George
Archainbaud. With Richard Dix, MA, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan,
Erich Von Stroheim, Hugh Herbert, Joel McCrea, Ralph Ince, Marjorie
Peterson, Ralph Lewis, William B. Davidson, Dick Grace, Art Goebel,
Leo Nomis, Frank Clark, Freeman Lang. MA as Follette Marsh, a film star.
56. A Successful Calamity. Warner Bros. 1932. Directed
by John G. Adolfi. With George Arliss, MA, Evalyn Knapp, Grant Mitchell,
Hardie Albright, William Janney, David Torrence, Randolph Scott, Hale
Hamilton, Fortunio Bonanova, Oscar Apfel, Murray Kinnell, Harold Minjir,
Barbara Leonard, Eula Guy, Leon Ames, Virginia Hammond, Richard Tucker,
Charles Coleman, John Rutherford, Nola Luxford, Helena Phillips Evans.
MA as Emmy, spoiled second wife of an elderly banker.
57. Those We Love. World Wide 1932. Directed by
Robert Florey. With MA, Kenneth McKenna, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton,
Tommy Conlon, Earle Foxe, Forrester Harvey, Virginia Sale, Pat OâMalley,
Harvey Clark, Cecil Cunningham, Edwin Maxwell. MA as May Ballard Williston,
wife from youth to middle age.
58. Red Dust. MGM 1932. Directed by Victor Fleming.
With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, MA, Gene Raymond, Donald Crisp, Tully
Marshall, Forrester Harvey, Willie Fung. MA as Barbara Willis, young
wife who has an illicit affair.
59. The Little Giant. Warner Bros. 1933. Directed
by Roy Del Ruth. With Edward G. Robinson, MA, Helen Vinson, Russell
Hopton, Kenneth Thomson, Shirley Grey, Berton Churchill, Donald Dillaway,
Louise Mackintosh, Helen Mann, Sidney Bracey, Selmer Jackson, Rolfe
Sedan, John Kelly, Adrian Morris, Dewey Robinson, William ãGordonä Elliott,
Bob Perry, Charles Coleman, Leonard Carey, Nora Cecil, Lorena Layson,
Joan Barclay, Lorin Raker, Lester Dorr, Lynn Browning, Pat Wing, Toby
Wing, John Marston, Harry Tenbrook, Guy Usher, Ann Hovey, Renae Whitney,
Loretta Andrews, Margaret La Marr, Jayne Shadduck, Maxine Cantway, Alice
Jans, Barbara Rogers, Bonnie Bannon. MA as Ruth Wayburn, a real estate
agent.
60. Jennie Gerhardt. Paramount 1933. Directed by
Marion Gering. With Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, MA, Edward Arnold, H.
B. Warner, Louise Carter, Cora Sue Collins, Dorothy Libaire, Gilda Storm,
Theodore Von Eltz, Greta Meyer, David Durand, Walter Walker, David OâBrien,
Betsy Ann Hisle, Frank Reicher, Morgan Wallace, Gene Morgan, Jane Darwell,
Lillian Harmer, Ernest Wood, Rose Coghlan. MA as Letty Pace, wife to
Cook character.
61. The Kennel Murder Case. Warner Bros. 1933. Directed
by Michael Curtiz. With William Powell, MA, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan,
Robert Barrat, Frank Conroy, Robert McWade, Etienne Giradot, James Lee,
Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl, Helen Vinson, Jack La Rue, Henry OâNeill,
Spencer Charters, Charles Wilson, Don Brodie, George Chandler, Wade
Boteler, Harry Allen, Milton Kibbee, Leo White, James Burke, Monty Vandergrift.
MA as Hilda Lake, a murder suspect.
62. The World Changes. Warner Bros. 1933. Directed
by Mervyn Le Roy. With Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, MA, Donald Cook, Jean
Muir, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Theodore Newton, Margaret Lindsay,
Gordon Westcott, Henry OâNeill, Anna Q. Nilsson, Arthur Hohl, Douglass
Dumbrille, Mickey Rooney, William Janney, Wallis Clark, Marjorie Gateson,
William Burress, Oscar Apfel, Alan Mowbray, Clay Clement, Willard Robertson,
Sidney Toler, Philip Faversham, Jackie Searle. MA as Virginia Nordholm,
social climbing wife to Muni character.
63. Convention City. Warner Bros. 1933. Directed
by Archie Mayo. With Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, MA,
Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Patricia Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert,
Grant Mitchell, Egon Brecher, Hobart Cavanaugh, Sheila Terry, Gordon
Westcott, Barbara Rogers, Harry C. Bradley, Douglass Dumbrille, Lorin
Raker, Huey White, Virginia Howell, Johnny Arthur, Samuel S. Hinds,
William Burress, Sam Godfrey. MA as Arline Dale, a saleswoman at a sales
convention.
64. Easy To Love. Warner Bros. 1934. Directed by
William Keighley. With Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, MA, Edward Everett
Horton, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Paul Kaye, Hobart
Cavanaugh, Robert Craig, Harold Waldridge. MA as Charlotte Hopkins,
ãother woman.ä
65. Upper World. Warner Bros. 1934. Directed by
Roy Del Ruth. With Warren William, MA, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine, Dickie
Moore, Ferdinand Gottschalk, J. Carroll Naish, Sidney Toler, Theodore
Newton, Henry OâNeill, Robert Barrat, Robert Greig, Frank Sheridan,
John Qualen, Willard Robertson, Nora Cecil, Lester Dorr, Wilfred Lucas,
Cliff Saum, William Jeffrey, Edward Le Saint, John Elliott, Armand Kaliz,
Joyce Owen, Milton Kibbee, James Burtis, Marie Astaire, Lucille Collins,
Jay Eaton, Douglas Cosgrove, Guy Usher, Clay Clement, James Durkin,
Monte Vandegrift, Edwin Stanley, Jack Cheatham, Tom McGuire, Bert Moorhouse,
Sidney De Grey, Howard Hickman, Frank Conroy, Henry Otho, William B.
Davidson. MA as Hettie Stream, social climber.
66. The Hollywood Gad-About. Educational 1934. Presented
by E. W. Hammons. American Treasure chest short. Various notables are
involved with stolen necklace. With Gary Cooper, Eddie Cantor, MA, James
Cagney, Shirley Temple, Alice White, Chester Morris, Walter Winchell.
67. Return of the Terror. Warner Bros. 1934. Directed
by Howard Bretherton. With MA, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Frank McHugh,
Robert Barrat, Irving Pichel, George E. Stone, Frank Reicher, J. Carroll
Naish, Robert Emmett OâConnor, Renee Whitney, Maude Eburne, Etienne
Giradot, Charley Grapewin, George Humbert, Edmund Breese, George Cooper,
Cecil Cunningham, Frank Conroy, Harry Seymour, Howard Hickman, Lorena
Layson, Philip Morris, Bert Moorhouse, Eddie Schubert. MA as Olga Morgan,
menaced heroine.
68. The Man With Two Faces. Warner Bros. 1934. Directed
by Archie Mayo. With Edward G. Robinson, MA, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke,
Louis Calhern, Arthur Byron, John Eldredge, David Landau, Emily Fitzroy,
Dorothy Tree, Margaret Dale, Anton Stengel, Arthur Ayslworth, Virginia
Sale, Mary Russell, Mrs. Wilfrid North, Howard Hickman, Maude Turner
Gordon, Dick Winslow, Frank Darien, Bert Moorhouse, Ray Cooke, Jack
McHugh, Douglas Cosgrove, Wade Boteler, Guy Usher, Joseph Crehan, Milton
Kibbee, Henry OâNeill. MA as Jessica Wells, an actress.
69. The Case of the Howling Dog. Warner Bros. 1934.
Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Warren William, MA, Allen Jenkins,
Grant Mitchell, Helen Trenholme, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Gordon
Westcott, Harry Tyler, Russell Hicks, Frank Reicher, Addison Richards,
James Burtis, Eddie Shubert, Harry Seymour, Arthur Aylsworth, Joseph
Crehan, William ãGordonä Elliott, Joseph Sawyer. MA as Bessie Foley,
a murder suspect.
70. Straight From The Heart. Universal 1935. Directed
by Scott R. Beal. With MA, Roger Pryor, Juanita Quigley, Carol Coombe,
Andy Devine, Grant Mitchell, Robert McWade, Doris Lloyd, Clara Blandick,
Henry Armetta, Douglas Fowley, Willard Robertson, Louis Carter, Hilda
Vaughn, Esther Howard, Marion Lord, Donald Haines, George Ernest, Hele
Parrish, Timmy Butts, Frank Reicher, William B. Davidson, Yola DâAvril,
Georgette Rhodes, James Flavin, Warner Richmond, Howard Hickman, Jack
Mulhall, Franklin Parker, Stanley Price, Philip Tead, Ronnie Cosbey,
Joan Standing, Veda Buckland, Bernard Suss, Arthur Howe, Shirley Jean
Rickert, Nestor Aber, Samuel T. Godfrey, Velma Gresham, William Norton
Bailey, Norma Drew, Tom OâGrady, Dorothy Vernon, Beth Hazelton, Louise
Lester, Lillian Castel, Kathryn Sheldon. MA as Marian Henshaw, as social
worker at an orphanage.
71. Dinky. Warner Bros. 1935. Directed by D. Ross
Lederman. With Jackie Cooper, MA, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty
Jane Haney, Henry OâNeill, Jimmy Butler, George Ernest, Sidney Miller,
Richard Quine, Frank Gernardi, Edith Fellows, Clay Clement, Florence
Fair, Addison Richards, Joseph Crehan, James Burke. MA as Mrs. Martha
Daniels, mother to Dinky character, played by Cooper.
72. Red Hot Tires. Warner Bros. 1935. Directed by
D. Ross Lederman. With Lyle Talbot, MA, Roscoe Karns, Gavin Gordon,
Frankie Darro, Mary Treen, Henry Kolker, Bradley Page, Arthur Aylsworth,
Clarence Muse, Howard Hickman, John Elliott, Eddie Sturgis, Selmer Jackson,
Robert Homans, Wade Boteler, Lottie Williams, George Offerman, Jr.,
Lee Phelps, Edward Keane, Eddie Chandler, Frank Puglia. MA as Patricia
Sanford, daughter of a racing car designer.
73. Page Miss Glory. Warner Bros. 1935. Directed
by Mervyn Le Roy. With Marion Davies, Pat OâBrien, Dick Powell, MA,
Frank McHugh, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Barton McLane, Patsy Kelly,
Hobart Cavanaugh, Joseph Cawthorn, Al Shean, Berton Churchill, Helen
Lowell, Mary Treen, Harry Beresford, Gavin Gordon, Lionel Stander, Joseph
Crehan, Jack Mulhall, Gayne Whitman, Oscar Apfel, Paul de Rincon, Edward
Cooper, John Quillan, Charles Irwin, Claudia Coleman, Emmett Vogan,
William ãGordonä Elliott, Franklyn Farnum, Charles Moore, Pat West,
Rudy Cameron, Edward Hearn, Philip Tead, Jack Norton, Jack Mulhall,
Ernie Alexander, Irving Bacon. MA as Gladys Russell, a photographer.
74. I Am a Thief. Warner Bros. 1935. Directed by
Robert Florey. With MA, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Robert Barrat,
Irving Pichel, Hobart Cavanaugh, Arthur Aylsworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk,
Florence Fair, Frank Reicher, John Wray, Oscar Apfel. MA as Odette Mauclair,
a suspected jewel thief.
75. Man of Iron. Warner Bros. 1935. Directed by
William McGann. With Barton McLane, MA, John Eldredge, Dorothy Peterson,
Joseph Crehan, Craig Reynolds, Joseph Sawyer, Joseph King, John Qualen,
William ãGordonä Elliott, Edward Keane, Florence Fair, George Pogue,
Irving Bacon, Don Downen, Cyril Ring, Fred Toones, George Reed, Joel
Waldron, Herbert Evans, Tom Manning, Milton Kibbee, Mrs. Wilfred North,
Edwin Stanley, Eddie Shubert, Nick Copeland, Buddy Roosevelt, Marty
Faust, Harry Tenbrook, Dutch Hendrian, Bert Lindley, George Magrill,
Sam Appel, Sam Rice, Gordon Carveth. MA as Vida, secretary at a steel
mill.
76. The Murder of Dr. Harrigan. Warner Bros. 1936.
Directed by Frank McDonald. With Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker. John Eldredge,
MA, Joseph Crehan, Frank Reicher, Anita Kerry, Phillip Reed, Robert
Strange, William ãGordonä Elliott, Mary Treen, Don Barclay, Johnny Arthur,
Joan Blair, Ellen Lowe, Frank Shannon, Mary Russell, Martha Tibbetts.
MA as Lillian Cooper, a nurse.
77. And So They Were Married. Columbia 1936. Directed
by Elliott Nugent. With Melvyn Douglas, MA, Edith Fellows, Jackie Moran,
Donald Meek, Dorothy Stickney, Romaine Callender, Douglas Scott, Margaret
Armstrong, Olaf Hytten, George McKay, Phyllis Godfrey, Hooper Atchley,
Alan Bridge, Gennaro Curci, Jay Eaton, Margaret Morgan, Gus Reed, Beatrice
Blinn, Wade Boteler, Charles Irwin, Gene Morgan, William Irving, Dennis
OâKeefe, Anne Schaefer, Charles Arnst, Joe Caits, Kernan Cripps, Jessie
Perry, Ernie Alexander, Adolph Faylauer, Beatrice Curtis. MA as Edith
Farnham, a divorcee.
78. Trapped By Television. Columbia 1936. Directed
by Del Lord. With MA, Lyle Talbot, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton, Thurston
Hall, Henry Mollison, Wyrley Birch, Marc Lawrence, Robert Strange, Lillian
Leighton, Bobby Gordon, Boy Irwin, Harry C. Bradley, Howard Hickman,
Russell Hicks, Max Wagner, Ralph McCullough, Lloyd Whitlock, Eddie Fetherstone,
Caroline Houseman, Harry Stafford, Neil Moore, Bruce Sidney, George
Webb, Lillian Stuart. MA as Barbara Blake, who invests in television
invention.
79. Dodsworth. United Artists 1936. Directed by
William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, MA, Paul Lukas,
David Niven, MAria Ouspenskaya, Gregory Gaye, Spring Byington, Odette
Myrtil, John Payne, Kathryn Marlow, Harlan Briggs, Beatrice Maude, Inez
Palange, Gino Corrado, Charles Halton. MA as Edith Cortwright, American
expatriate in Italy.
80. Lady From Nowhere. Columbia 1936. Directed by
Gordon Wiles. With MA, Charles Quigley, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian,
Claudia Coleman, Rita La Roy, Spencer Charters, Norman Willis, John
Tyrell, John Hamilton, George DeNormand, Harry Tyler, Matty Fain, Gene
Morgan, Edwin Stanley, Frank Melton, Horace Murphy, Bob MacKenzie, Joe
Bernard, Jack Kennedy, Gennaro Curci, Victor Potel, Edward Le Saint,
Wedgwood Nowell, C. L. Sherwood, Lowell Drew. MA as Polly Dunlop, a
hotel manicurist.
81. The Prisoner of Zenda. United Artists 1937.
Directed by John Cromwell. With Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., MA, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, David Niven, Montagu
Love, William Von Brincken, Philip Sleeman, Forence Roberts, Eleanor
Wesselhoeft, Torben Meyer, Lawrence Grant, Ian MacLaren, Ralph Faulkner,
Byron Foulger, Howard Lang, Ben Webster, Evelyn Beresford, Alexander
DâArcy, Al Shean, Emmett King, Boyd Irwin, Spencer Charters, Henry Roquemore,
Lillian Harmer, Pat Somerset, Leslie Sketchley, Charles Halton. MA as
Antoinette de Mauban, an adventuress.
82. The Hurricane. United Artists 1937. Directed
by John Ford. With Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, MA, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas
Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan, Al Kikume, Layne
Tom, Jr., Mamo Clark, Movita Castenada, Kuuilei De Clercq, Flora Hayes,
Mary Shaw, Spencer Charters, Roger Drake, Pauline Steele, Inez Courtney,
Francis Kaai. MA as Germaine De Laage, wife of Island governor.
83. No Time To Marry. Columbia 1938. Directed by
Harry Lachman. With Richard Arlen, MA, Lionel Stander, Virginia Dale,
Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft, Jay Adler, Charles Trowbridge,
Paul Hurst, Matt McHugh, George Humbert, Jack Dougherty, Edgar Dearing,
Allen Mathews, Louis Jean Heydt, Anthony Hughes, Anna Demetrio, Frank
Faylen, Nora Cecil, William Benedict, C. Montague Shaw, Joseph Tozer,
Lee Phelps, Walter Merrill, Jerry Tucker, Eddie Laughton, George French,
Allen Brook, Charles Coleman, Scotty Beckett. MA as Kay McGowan, a newspaper
reporter.
84. Paradise For Three. MGM 1938. Directed by Edward
Buzzell. With Frank Morgan, Robert Young, MA, Edna May Oliver, Florence
Rice, Reginald Owen, Henry Hull, Herman Bing, Sig Rumann, Walter Kingsford,
Jack Norton, Anna Q. Nilsson, Grace Goodall, Florence Wix, Hazel Laughton,
George Ernest, Greta Meyer, Mariska Aldrich, Jean Fenwick, Robert Canterio,
Rolfe Sedan, Guy DâEnnery, Jacques Vanaire, George Sorel, Lilyan Irene,
Max Lucke, Mary Howard, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Edwin Maxwell, Maurice
Cass, Wedgewood Nowell, Max Barwyn, Abe Dinovitch, Billy Dooley, Roger
Moore, Henry Sylvester, Elsa Christian, MA as Irene Mallebre, a gold
digger.
85. Thereâs Always a Woman. Columbia 1938. Directed
by Alexander Hall. With Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, MA, Frances Drake,
Jerome Cowan, Robert Paige, Thurston Hall, Pierre Watkin, Walter Kingsford,
Lester Matthews, Tom Dugan, Gene Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Wade Boteler,
Wyn Cahoon, Arthur Loft, William H. Strauss, Marek Windheim, Bud Jamison,
George Davis, Robert Emmett Keane, Lucille Ward, Eddie Fetherston, Joseph
De Stefani, John Gallaudet, Ted Oliver, Gene Morgan, Bud Geary, William
Benedict, Lee Phelps, Eddie Dunn, George McKay, Nell Craig. MA as Lola
Fraser, a murderess.
86. Woman Against Woman. MGM 1938. Directed by Robert
B. Sinclair. With Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce, MA, Janet Beecher,
Marjorie Rambeau, Juanita Quigley, Zeffie Tilbury, Sarah Padden, Betty
Ross Clarke, Dorothy Christie, Morgan Wallace, Joseph Crehan, Libby
Taylor, Howard Hickman, Marie Blake, Sarah Edwards, Leonard Penn, Roger
Converse, Jason Robards, Sr., Henry Roquemore, Barbara Bedford, Claire
Owen, Frederick Vroom, George Ovey, William Irving, Eva Dennison, Hal
Cooke, Adele Girard, Jack Fowler, Lorraine MacLean, Edward Earle, Jacques
Vanaire, Forbes Murray, Tom Rutherford, Paul Power, Sherry Hall, Estelle
Eterre, Ralph Brooks, I. Stanford Jolley, Stanley Orr. MA as Cynthia
Holland, selfish wife of Marshall character.
87. Listen Darling. MGM 1938. Directed by Edwin
L. Marin. With Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, MA, Walter Pidgeon,
Alan Hale, Scott Beckett, Barnett Parker, Gene Lockhart, Charley Grapewin,
Edgar Dearing. MA as Dotty Wingate, a widow and mother of two children.
88. Midnight. Paramount 1939. Directed by Mitchell
Leisen. With Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis
Lederer, MA, Elaine Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Rex OâMalley, Monty Woolley,
Armand Kaliz, Lionel Pape, Ferdinand Munier, Gennaro Curci, William
Eddritt, Michael Visaroff, Paul Bryar, Elspeth Dudgeon, Carlos De Valdez,
Arno Frey, Joseph De Stefani, Helen St. Rayner, Billy Daniels, Bryant
Washburn, Max Lucke, Leonard Sues, Robert Graves, Eddy Conrad, Eugene
Borden, Joseph Romantini, Leander De Cordova, Nestor Paiva, Judith King,
Joyce Mathews, Harry Semels. MA as Helene Flamarion, the Barrymore characterâs
flirtatious wife.
89. Turnabout. United Artists 1940. Directed by
Hal Roach. With Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard, William
Gargan, MA, Verree Teasdale, Donald Meek, Joyce Compton, Inez Courtney,
Franklin Pangborn, Marjorie Main, Berton Churchill, Margaret Roach,
Ray Turner, Polly Ann Young, Norman Budd, Eleanor Riley, Murray Alper,
Miki Morita, Yolande Donlan, Georges Renavent, Chester Clute, Laurence
Wheat, Wright Kramer, Harold Minjir, Jack Rice, Buddy Messinger, Ward
Arnold, Forbes Murray, Belle Dugan, Jerry Mandy, Hal Cooke, Carlie Taylor,
Jack Egan, Peter Adams, Gwen Kenyon, Mildred Sellers, Alaine Brandes,
Frances Morris, Louise Richie, Elsa Peterson, Marshall Ruth, Jack Davidson,
Robert Shaw, Joe Hartman, Bert Moorhouse, Gwen Seager. MA as Marion
Manning, wife to Menjou character.
90. Brigham Young. TCF 1940. Directed by Henry Hathaway.
With Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell,
MA, John Carradine, Vincent Price, Jean Rogers, Ann E. Todd, Willard
Robertson, Moroni Olsen, Marc Lawrence, Stanley Andrews, Frank Thomas,
Fuzzy Knight, Dickie Jones, Russell Simpson, Chief Big Tree, Arthur
Aylesworth, Tully Marshall, Dick Rich, Davidson Clark, Selmer Jackson,
Claire Du Brey, Ralph Dunn, Edwin Maxwell, Edmund MacDonald, George
Melford, Lee Shumway, David Kirkland, Charles Middleton, Frederick Burton,
Charles Halton, Philip Morris, Frank La Rue, Paul E. Burns, Cecil Weston,
Ruth Robinson, Eddy Waller, Herbert Heywood, Frank Shannon, Edmund Elton,
Harry Tyler, William Haade, Imboden Parrish, Murdock MacQuarrie. MA
as Mary Ann Young, Brigham Youngâs first wife.
91. The Great Lie. Warner Bros. 1941. Directed by
Edmund Goulding. With Bette Davis, George Brent, MA, Lucile Watson,
Hattie MacDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Thurston Hall, Sam McDaniel,
Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, Doris Lloyd, J.
Farrell MacDonald, Olin Howland, Alphonse Martell, Georgia Caine, Charlotte
Wynters, Cyril Ring, George Kirby, Addison Richards, Georges Renavent,
George Reed, Richard Clayton, Napoleon Simpson, Lottie Williams. MA
as Sandra Kovak, a self centered concert pianist.
92. The Maltese Falcon. Warner Bros. 1941. Directed
by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, MA, Gladys George, Peter Lorre,
Walter Huston, Barton McLane, Sydney Greenstreet, Lee Patrick, Ward
Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook, Jr., James Burke, John Hamilton, Emory
Parnell, Robert Homans, Creighton Hale, Charles Drake, William Hopper,
Hank Mann, Jack Mower, Murray Alper. MA as Brigid OâShaughnessy, a crook.
93. Across the Pacific. Warner Bros. 1942. Directed
by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, MA, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles
Halton, Victor Sen Yung, Frank Wilcox, Lester Matthews, Paul Stanton,
Lee Tung Foo, Roland Got, John Hamilton, Tom Stevenson, Monte Blue,
Kam Tong, Chester Gan, Richard Loo, Keye Luke, Spencer Chan, William
Hopper, Rudy Robles, Frank Mayo, Garland Smith, Dick French, Charles
Drake, Will Morgan, Roland Drew, Jack Mower, Eddie Dew, Frank Faylen,
Ruth Ford, Eddie Lee, Richard Botiller, Beal Wong, Philip Ahn, Anthony
Caruso, James Leong, Paul Fung, Gordon De Main. MA as Alberta Marlow,
a woman of dubious background.
94. The Palm Beach Story. Paramount 1942. Directed
by Preston Sturges. With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, MA, Rudy Vallee,
Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull, Torben Meyer, Jimmy Conlin,
Victor Potel, William Demarest, Jack Norton, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates,
Dewey Robinson, Chester Conklin, Sheldon Jett, Franklin Pangborn, Robert
Dudley, Esther Howard, Alan Bridge, Arthur Hoyt, Fred Toones, Frank
Moran, Harry Rosenthal, Charles B. Moore, Howard Mitchell, Harry Hayden,
Monte Blue, Esther Michelson, Harry Tyler, Edward McNamara, Manton Moreland,
Keith Richards, Max Wagner, Frank Faylen, Wilson Benge, Byro Foulger,
John Holland, Julius Tannen, Bess Flowers, J. Farrell McDonald, Odette
Myrtil, Marcelle Corday, Amanda Randolph. MA as Princess Centimillia,
much married socialite.
95. Young Ideas. MGM 1943. Directed by Jules Dassin.
With Susan Peters, MA, Elliott Reid, Richard Carlson, Allyn Joslyn,
Dorothy Morris, Frances Rafferty, George Dolenz, Emory Parnell. MA as
Jo Evans, mother to Peters and Reid characters.
96. Thousands Cheer. MGM 1943. Directed by George
Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, MA, John Boles, Jose Iturbi,
Dick Simmons, Ben Blue, Frank Jenks, Frank Sully, Wally Cassell, Ben
Lessy, Frances Rafferty, Odette Myrtil, Will Kaufman, Lionel Barrymore,
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball,
Ann Sothern, Marsha Hunt, Marilyn Maxwell, Lena Horne, Virginia OâBrien,
Gloria de Haven, June Allyson, Margaret OâBrien, Donna Reed, Sara Haden,
Frank Morgan, Kay Kyser and his Orchestra, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra,
Chorus of the United Nations, Benny Carter and his Orchestra, Don Loper,
Maxine Barrat, Sig Arno, Daisy Buford, Pierre Watkin, Connie Gilchrist,
Bea Nigro, Edmund Mortimer, James Millican, Bryant Washburn, Jr., Peggy
Remington, Carl Saxe, Ray Teal, William Tannen, Florence Turner, Linda
Landi, Harry Strang, Eileen Coghlan, Eve Whitney, Aileen Haley, Betty
Jaynes, Natalie Draper, Myron Healey, Cliff Danielson, James Warren,
Don Taylor, Paul Speer, Marta Linden, John Conte. MA as Hyllary Jones,
mother to Grayson character.
97. Meet Me In St. Louis. MGM 1944. Directed by
Vincente Minelli. With Judy Garland, Margaret OâBrien, MA, Lucille Bremer,
Leon Ames, Tom Drake, June Lockhart, Harry Davenport, Hank Daniels,
Marjorie Main, Joan Carroll, Hugh Marlowe, Robert Sully, Donald Curtis,
Robert Emmett OâConnor, Darryl Hickman, Chill Wills, Mary Jo Ellis,
Ken Wilson, Leonard Walker, Victor Kilian, John Phipps, Belle Mitchell,
Major Sam Harris, Mayo Newhall, Sidney Barnes, Myron Tobias, Victor
Cox, Kenneth Donner, Buddy Gorman, Joe Cobb. MA as Mrs. Anna Smith,
wife of Ames and mother to Garland, OâBrien, Bremer, Daniels, and Carroll.
98. Blonde Fever. MGM 1944. Directed by Richard
Whorf. With Philip Dorn, MA, Felix Bressart, Gloria Grahame, Marshall
Thompson, Elisabeth Risdon, Curt Bois, Arthur Walsh.
99. Claudia and David. TCF 1946. Directed by Walter Lang.
With Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, MA, John Sutton, Gail Patrick, Rose
Hobart, Harry Davenport, Florence Bates, Jerome Cowan, Else Janssen,
Frank Tweddell, Anthony Sydes, Pierre Watkin, Henry Mowbray, Clara Blandick,
Eric Wilton, Frank Darien, Walter Baldwin, Eva Novak, Jacqueline Warrington.
MA as Elizabeth Van Doren, wealthy widow..
100. Desert Fury. Paramount 1947. Directed by Lewis
Allen. With John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, MA, Kristine
Miller, Wendell Cory, William Harrigan, James Flavin, Jane Novak, Ana
Camargo, Milton Kibbee, Ralph Peters, John Farrell, Harland Tucker,
Ray Teal, Lew Harvey, Tom Schamp, Ed Randolph, Michael Lally. MA as
Fritzi Haller, gambling casino owner, and mother of Scott character.
101. Cynthia. MGM 1947. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
With Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, MA, S. Z. Sakall, Gene Lockhart,
Spring Byington, James Lydon, Carol Brannan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Morris
Ankrum, Kathleen Howard, Shirley Johns, Will Wright, Harlan Briggs,
Minerva Urecal, Erville Alderson, William Tannen. MA as Louise Bishop,
mother to Taylor character.
102. Fiesta. MGM 1947. Directed by Richard Thorpe.
With Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll,
MA, Cyd Charisse, Fortunio Bonanova, Hugo Haas, Jean Van, Joey Preston,
Frank Puglia, Los Bocheros, Alan Napier, Alex Montoya, Rosa Rey, Robert
Emmett OâConnor, Nacho Galindo, Soledad Jimenez, Ben Weldon, Rudy Rama,
Dewey Robinson, Jose Portugal, John Hamilton. MA as Senora Morales,
mother to Williams and Montalban characters.
103. Cass Timberlane. MGM 1947. Directed by George
Sidney. With Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachery Scott, Tom Drake, MA,
Albert Dekker, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Mona Barrie, Josephine
Hutchinson, Selena Royle, Richard Gaines, John Alexander, Cliff Clark,
Almira Sessions, Cameron Mitchell, Howard Freeman, Milburn Stone, Griff
Barnett, Guy Beach, Jessie Grayson, Tim Ryan, Bess Flowers, Lester Dorr,
Roy Gordon, Albert Pollet, Mitchell Kowall, Anro Frey, Buz Buckley,
Ed Oliver, Emmett Vogan, Walter Pidgeon, Pat Clark. MA as Queenie Havock,
ãbrassyä wife to Dekker character.
104. Act of Violence. MGM 1948. Directed by Fred
Zimmermann. With Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, MA, Phyllis Thaxter,
Berry Kroeger, Nicholas Joy, Harry Antrim, Connie Gilchrist, Will Wright,
Tom Hanlon, Philip Tead, Eddie Waglin, William ãBillä Phillips, Garry
Owen, Frederic Santley, Dick Elliott, Johnny Albright, Irene Seidner,
Ralph Peters, Douglas Carter, Frank Scannell, Rex Downing, Mickey Martin,
Rocco Lanzo, Dick Simmons, Don Haggerty, Paul Kruger, William Bailey,
Philip Dunham, Wilbur Mack, Howard Mitchell, Walter Merrill, Ralph Montgomery,
Cameron Grant, George Ovey, Jimmie Kelly, David Newell, Fred Datig,
Jr., Margaret Bert, Mary Jo Ellis, Ann Lawrence, Robert Skelton, Andre
Pola, Rudolph Anders, Florita Romero. MA as Pat, a prostitute.
105. Little Women. MGM 1949. Directed by Mervyn
LeRoy. With June Allyson, Margaret OâBrien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet
Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, MA, Lucile Watson, Peter Lawford, C. Aubrey Smith,
Elizabeth Patterson, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport, Richard Stapley, Connie
Gilchrist, Ellen Corby, Will Wright, Olin Howlin, Isabel Randolph, Frank
Darien. MA as Marmee, mother to Allyson, OâBrien, Taylor, and Leigh
characters.
106. Any Number Can Play. MGM 1949. Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy. With Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey
Totter, Frank Morgan, MA, Lewis Stone, Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Rambeau,
Edgar Buchanan, Leon Ames, Mickey Knox, Richard Rober, William Conrad,
Darryl Hickman, Caleb Peterson, Dorothy Comingore, Art Baker. MA as
Ada, a compulsive gambler.
107. A Kiss Before Dying. United Artists 1956. Directed
by Gerd Oswald. With Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith,
Joanne Woodward, MA, George Macready, Robert Quarry, Howard Petrie,
Bill Walker, Molly McCart, Marlene Felton. MA as Mrs. Corliss, mother
to Wagner character.
108. The Power and The Prize. MGM 1956. Directed
by Henry Koster. With Robert Taylor, Elisabeth Mueller, Burl Ives, Charles
Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, MA, Nicola Michaels, Cameron Prudâhomme, Richard
Erdman, Ben Wright, Jack Raine, Tom Browne Henry, Richard Deacon. MA
as Mrs. George Salt, wife of tycoon Ives.
109. The Devilâs Hairpin. Paramount 1957. Directed by Cornel
Wilde. With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz, MA, Paul Fix,
Larry Pennell, Gerald Milton, Ross Bagdasarian, Morgan Jones, Jack Kosslyn,
Louis Wilde, Jack Latham, Mabel Lillian Rea, Dorene Porter, Sue England,
John Indrisano, Mike Mahoney, Les Clark, Henry Blair. MA as Mrs. Polly
Jargin, mother to Wilde character.
110. This Happy Feeling. Universal 1958. Directed
by Blake Edwards. With Debbie Reynolds, Curt Jurgens, John Saxon, Alexis
Smith, MA, Estelle Winwood, Troy Donahue, Hayden Rorke, Gloria Holden,
Alex Gerry, Joe Flynn, Alexander Campbell, Clem Fuller. MA as Mrs. Tremaine,
mother of Saxon character.
111. Stranger in My Arms. Universal 1959. Directed by Helmut
Dautner. With June Allyson, Jeff Chandler, Sandra Dee, Charles Coburn,
MA, Peter Graves, Conrad Nagel, Hayden Rorke, Reita Green, Bartlett
Robinson, Howard Wendell. MA as Mrs. Beasley, dominating mother-in-law
of Allyson character.
112. Return to Peyton Place. TCF 1961. Directed
by Joe Ferrer. With Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, MA,
Robert Sterling, Luciana Paluzzi, Brett Halsey, Gunnar Hellstrom, Tuesday
Weld, Kenneth MacDonald, Bob Crane, Bill Bradley, Tim Durant, Casey
Adams, Pitt Herbert, Warren Parker, Arthur Peterson, Jennifer Howard,
Joan Banks, Emerson Treacy, Wilton Graff, Laura McCann, Hari Rhodes,
Leonard Stone, Alex Durand, Reedy Talton, Jack Carr, Tony Miller, Collette
Lyons, Charles Seel, Max Mellinger, Carol Veazie, Helen Bennett. MA
as Roberta Carter, possessive mother of Halsey character.
113. Youngblood Hawke. Warner Bros. 1964. Directed
by Delmer Daves. With James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve
Page, Eva Gabor, MA, Lee Bowman, Edward Andrews, Don Porter, Mildred
Dunnock, Kent Smith, John Dehner, John Emery, Mark Miller, Hayden Rorke,
Werner Klemperer, Berry Kroeger, Rusty Lane. MA as Irene Perry, an actress.
114. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. TCF 1964. Directed
by Robert Aldrich. With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten,
Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono, MA, Wesley Addy, William
Campbell, Bruce Dern, Frank Ferguson, George Kennedy, Dave Willock,
John Megna, Percy Helton, Kelly Flynn, Michael Petit, Alida Aldrich,
Kelly Aldrich, William Aldrich, Ellen Corby, Marianne Stewart, Carol
De Lay, Mary Henderson, Lillian Randolph, Geraldine West, Bill Walker,
Idell James. MA as Jewel Mayhew, a murderess. ð
(Editorâs Note: Special thanks to David Chierichetti
for the loan of rare images from his photo collection used in this article.)
