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Mary Duncan is a Actor American born on 12 august 1895 at Luttrellville (USA)
Mary Duncan (August 13, 1895 – May 9, 1993) was an American actress.
(1933)
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Birth name Mary Annie Dungan
Nationality USA
Birth 12 august 1895 at Luttrellville (USA)
Death 9 may 1993 (at 97 years) at Palm Beach (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 12 august 1895 at Luttrellville (USA)
Death 9 may 1993 (at 97 years) at Palm Beach (USA)
Biography
Duncan was born Mary Annie Dungan in Northumberland County, Virginia, the sixth of eight children born to Capt. William Dungan and his wife, Ada Thaddeus Douglass. She attended Cornell University before settling on acting as a career. She began her career as a child actress playing on the Broadway stage from 1910. In 1926 she played "Poppy" in the smash hit and controversial play The Shanghai Gesture, in which Florence Reed played her mother (known as "Mother Goddam"). Reed's character kills her daughter in a startling end to the play. This play was turned into a very sanitized film in 1941 with Gene Tierney. Duncan's last film appearance was in the 1933 film Morning Glory, which starred Katharine Hepburn.Best films
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Filmography of Mary Duncan (13 films)
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Add to a movie listMorning Glory (1933)
, 1h14Directed by Lowell Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan, C. Aubrey Smith, Don Alvarado
Roles Rita Vernon
Rating63%
Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn) is a performer from a small town who has hoped since childhood to make it big on Broadway. She goes to auditions and tries to get a role in an upcoming play that would help her make it to the big time. While there, one other actress auditioning makes the cut as she is under contract with the company, but in fact the boss would love to get rid of this pest of a woman. A theatre coach (C Aubrey Smith), whom she meets while waiting to talk to Louis Easton (Adolphe Menjou), agrees to give her acting lessons.
Thirteen Women (1932)
, 1h13Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Slasher
Actors Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge, Mary Duncan
Roles June Raskob
Rating61%
Thirteen women, who were sorority sisters at the all girl's college St. Alban's, all write to a clairvoyant "swami" (C. Henry Gordon) who by mail sends each a horoscope foreseeing swift doom. However, the clairvoyant is under the sway of Ursula Georgi (Myrna Loy), a half-Javanese Eurasian woman who was snubbed at school by the other women owing to her mixed-race heritage, eventually forcing Georgi to leave school. She now seeks revenge by manipulating the women into killing themselves or each other. She also goads the clairvoyant into killing himself by falling into the path of a subway train.
State's Attorney (1932)
, 1h13Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan, Ralph Ince, Albert Conti
Roles Nora Dean
Rating65%
In this pre-Production Code drama, John Barrymore plays near-alcoholic defense attorney Tom Cardigan who handles a lot of cases for his childhood friend, gangster Valentine "Vanny" Powers (William "Stage" Boyd who used "Stage" as his middle name to distinguish him from the better known William Boyd of Hopalong Cassidy fame).
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
, 1h16Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Anita Louise, Bess Flowers, H. B. Warner
Roles Dorothy Mears
Rating63%
Ricardo Cortez as Gary Curtis (alias Farnsbarns who is known for being a PI that skirts the law in New York) is sent to get some letters from Karen Morley as Jenny Wren (who is a courtisan). Jenny Wren tells H. B. Warner as Priam Andes to have some of her former lovers come to a gathering at Crestwood. Jenny Wren at the gathering tells her former lovers that she is leaving but wants money from all of them, she explains that a boy she was trifling with committed suicide. Later that night Jenny Wren is killed. A road washed out keeps everyone at Crestwood. Now Gary Curtis must find out who the murder is before the police arrive and pin it on him.
Five and Ten (1931)
, 1h29Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett, Marion Davies, Irene Rich, Douglass Montgomery, Halliwell Hobbes
Roles Muriel Preston
Rating63%
John Rarick, devenu l'un des hommes les plus riches d'Amérique grâce à sa chaîne de magasins populaires, déménage avec sa famille du Kansas à New York. Obsédé par le travail, il ne remarque pas que sa femme Jenny et son fils Avery sont malheureux et regrettent la vie simple du Kansas. Seule sa fille Jennifer aime New York et essaie désespérément de faire partie de l'élite sociale de la ville, même s'ils la snobent à cause de son origine sociale. Lors d'un gala de charité, elle rencontre Berry Rhodes et décide immédiatement de l'épouser, même s'il est déjà fiancé à Muriel Preston. Lorsqu'elle découvre que Berry est un architecte talentueux, elle convainc Rarick de l'engager pour construire une nouvelle tour de bureaux pour son entreprise. Berry rejette d'abord les avances de Jennifer mais finit par se rendre compte qu'il l'aime. Ils prévoient de se rencontrer dans le jardin, mais avant que Berry n'arrive, Jennifer est confrontée à Muriel qui lui dit qu'elle ne peut pas acheter Berry de la même façon qu'elle achète son chemin dans la société. Lorsque Muriel raconte la conversation à Berry, elle déforme les paroles de Jennifer. Peu de temps après, Muriel et Berry se marient.
The Age for Love (1931)
, 1h21Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Billie Dove, Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Duncan, Betty Ross Clarke
Roles Nina Donnet
Rating64%
City Girl (1930)
, 1h17Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Anne Shirley, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Tom McGuire
Roles Kate
Rating76%
The city girl Kate falls in love with farmer Lem. He takes Kate to his family farm but Kate has trouble being accepted by the family.
Kismet (1930)
, 1h30Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Duncan, Montagu Love
Roles Zeleekha
Rating58%
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Betty Compson, Mary Duncan, Ian Keith, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Belmore, Jeanette Loff
Roles Mona
Rating64%
Ian Keith plays a French military attaché in Madrid who romantically pursues the wives of various government officials. Betty Compson and Mary Duncan play the objects of his attention.
The River (1929)
, 1h24Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Bert Woodruff
Roles Rosalee
Rating72%
Allen John Spender (Charles Farrell) is a virile outdoorsman and Rosalee (Mary Duncan) is his high society sweetheart.
Thru Different Eyes (1929)
, 1h2Directed by John G. Blystone
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Natalie Moorhead, Earle Foxe, Florence Lake
Roles Viola
Rating59%
Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)
Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Warner Baxter, Mona Maris, Mary Duncan, Antonio Moreno, Robert Edeson, Agostino Borgato
Roles Carlotta
4 Devils (1928)
, 1h40Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Circus films, Films about children
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Morton, Anders Randolf, Barry Norton, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Davis
Roles The Lady
Rating70%
The plot concerns four orphans (Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexel, Barry Norton, and Charles Morton) who become a high wire act, and centers around sinister goings-on at a circus.