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Mary Young

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Birth name Mary Marsden Young
Nationality USA
Birth 20 june 1879
Death 23 june 1971 (at 92 years)

Mary Young (June 21, 1879 - June 23, 1971) was an American stage and film actress whose career spanned the first sixty years of the 20th century. A gorgeous well-rounded beauty in her youth, she started in the legitimate theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television. Her spouse was handsome debonair Broadway actor John Craig (1868-1932). On stage she scored a memorable hit in 1913 playing opposite John Barrymore in the stage version of Believe Me Xantippe. Her first Broadway credit was in 1899. She was approaching sixty in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. Her last television appearance was in a 1968 episode of Gomer Pyle.

She died at La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1971.

Biography

En 1894 (à 14 ans), Mary Young épouse l'acteur John Craig (1868-1932), dont elle divorce en 1931. Tous deux sont les cofondateurs de la troupe du Castle Square Theatre de Boston (Massachusetts), où la jeune actrice débute au théâtre. En ce lieu construit en 1894 et démoli en 1932, elle personnifie par exemple Desdémone dans Othello de William Shakespeare (1910, avec son mari dans le rôle-titre et Donald Meek).

À Broadway (New York), elle joue pour la première fois en 1899 dans la comédie musicale In Gay Paree sur une musique de Ludwig Erlander. Suivent dix pièces, à partir de Believe Me, Xantippe de Frederick Ballard (1913, avec John Barrymore et Frank Campeau). Ultérieurement, citons Dancing Mothers d'Edgar Selwyn et Edmund Goulding (1924, avec Helen Hayes et Henry Stephenson) et Jules César de William Shakespeare, mise en scène par John Craig (1927, avec Tyrone Power Sr. et Basil Rathbone). Ses deux dernières pièces à Broadway sont représentées en 1929, dont Gypsy de Maxwell Anderson (avec Louis Calhern et Wallace Ford), mise en scène par George Cukor, qu'elle retrouvera trois fois comme réalisateur au cinéma.

Pour le grand écran justement, comme second rôle ou non créditée, elle contribue sur le tard à trente-cinq films américains (y compris quelques westerns), le premier étant Sa dernière chance de William A. Seiter (1937, avec Robert Taylor et Barbara Stanwyck) ; les deux derniers sortent en 1966, dont Le Dortoir des anges d'Ida Lupino (avec Rosalind Russell et Binnie Barnes). Entretemps, mentionnons Femmes de George Cukor (1939, avec Norma Shearer et Joan Crawford), Le Poison de Billy Wilder (1945, avec Ray Milland et Jane Wyman), La Mère du marié de Mitchell Leisen (1951, avec Gene Tierney et John Lund) et la comédie-western Ne tirez pas sur le bandit de Norman Z. McLeod (1959, avec Bob Hope et Rhonda Fleming).

À la télévision américaine, elle apparaît dans quarante-cinq séries (notamment de western) entre 1949 et 1968. Dans l'intervalle, évoquons Rintintin (un épisode, 1955), Perry Mason (un épisode, 1961) et Le Virginien (un épisode, 1963).

Mary Young meurt en 1971, à 92 ans.

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Filmography of Mary Young (36 films)

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Coming to America, 1h56
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire
Actors Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones, Madge Sinclair, John Amos
Roles Stuck-Up Girl
Rating70% 3.5481353.5481353.5481353.5481353.548135
Akeem Joffer, the crown prince to the throne of the wealthy African nation of Zamunda, lives a pampered lifestyle with every daily facet performed by servants. Akeem has become fed up with this and wishes to do more for himself. The final straw comes when his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aeoleon, present him with an arranged bride-to-be named Imani Izzi, whom he has never met and who has been trained to obey Akeem's every command. Akeem concocts a plan to travel to the United States to find an intelligent, independent-minded woman he can both love and respect, and who will love Akeem for who he is and not for his wealth and social status as a prince. Akeem and his best friend/personal aide, Semmi, flip a coin to decide between going to either Los Angeles or New York City, and end up going to New York City. They end up in the borough of Queens and rent a run-down apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City, passing themselves off as poor foreign students. They begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's—an obvious ripoff of McDonald's—owned by widower Cleo McDowell and his two daughters, Lisa and Patrice.
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, 1h44
Directed by Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber
Roles M Galbrace
Rating59% 2.9980052.9980052.9980052.9980052.998005
Con man Eli Kotch (James Coburn) charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist (Marian McCargo), but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their employers. He's made a down payment on the blueprints to a bank at Los Angeles International Airport, but needs to raise $85,000 to complete the purchase.
The Trouble with Angels, 1h52
Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education, Films about religion
Actors Hayley Mills, Rosalind Russell, June Harding, Binnie Barnes, Marge Redmond, Camilla Sparv
Roles Mrs. Eldridge
Rating72% 3.644873.644873.644873.644873.64487
The movie is set at St. Francis Academy (also the name of the school in Sister Act 2), a fictional all-girls Catholic boarding school in Pennsylvania, operated by an order of nuns. Rosalind Russell plays the Mother Superior, who spends the movie at odds with Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills), a rebellious teenager, and her misery-loves-company friend Rachel Devry (June Harding). The episodic storyline follows the young women through their sophomore, junior and senior high-school years. After spending much of the film resenting the authority of the Mother Superior, Mary receives the "call" senior year and, after graduation, remains at the school in the novitiate of the order.
The Murder Clinic, 1h30
Directed by Lionello De Felice
Genres Horror, Crime
Actors William Berger, Françoise Prévost, Mary Young, Philippe Hersent, Germano Longo, Rossella Bergamonti
Roles Lizbeth Vance
Rating58% 2.9113452.9113452.9113452.9113452.911345
Une jeune infirmière est engagée dans un hôpital psychiatrique où des agressions nocturnes se succèdent. Le propriétaire de l'établissement essaie de dissimuler les cadavres ce qui lui vaut de subir le chantage d'un témoin. Et un personnage mystérieux se cache dans les combles.
Alias Jesse James, 1h32
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about families, Jesse James, Gangster films
Actors Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Will Wright, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Mary Young
Roles 'Ma' James
Rating63% 3.195613.195613.195613.195613.19561
Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.
Blue Denim
Blue Denim (1959)
, 1h29
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Films based on plays
Actors Carol Lynley, Brandon deWilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, Nina Shipman
Rating65% 3.289053.289053.289053.289053.28905
The story is set in Dearborn, Michigan, during the 1950s, and revolves around sixteen-year-old Arthur Bartley (Brandon deWilde) and his schoolmates, fifteen-year-old Janet Willard (Carol Lynley) and Ernie (Warren Berlinger). While widower's-daughter Janet laughs at Arthur and Ernie's forays into smoking, drinking, and playing cards, she's always been interested in Arthur, and as Arthur's parents try to shelter him from negative things in life (like the euthanasia of the family dog, done while he's at school), he turns to Janet for comfort.
Around the World in Eighty Days, 2h47
Directed by John Farrow, Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke
Roles Extra (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3490153.3490153.3490153.3490153.349015
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
The Seven Year Itch, 1h40
Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Robert Strauss, Sonny Tufts, Oskar Homolka
Roles une passagère à la gare
Rating70% 3.549513.549513.549513.549513.54951
Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a nerdy, faithful, middle-aged publishing executive with an overactive imagination and a mid-life crisis, whose wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and son Ricky (Butch Bernard) are spending the summer in Maine. When he returns home with the kayak paddle Ricky accidentally left behind, he meets a woman (Marilyn Monroe), a commercial actress and former model who rents the apartment upstairs while in town to make television spots for a brand of toothpaste. That evening, he works on proofreading a book in which psychiatrist Dr. Brubaker (Oskar Homolka) claims that a significant proportion of men have extra-marital affairs in the seventh year of marriage. He has an imaginary conversation with Helen, trying to convince her, in three fantasy sequences, that he is irresistible to women, including his secretary, a nurse and her bridesmaid, but she laughs it off. A tomato plant then crashes into his lounge chair; the woman upstairs apologizes for accidentally knocking it over, and Richard invites her down for a drink.
A Star Is Born, 3h1
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Amanda Blake
Roles Boardinghouse Woman (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.7464853.7464853.7464853.7464853.746485
Esther Blodgett is a talented aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former matinee idol with a career in the early stages of decline. When he arrives intoxicated at a function at the Shrine Auditorium, the studio publicist attempts to keep him away from reporters. After an angry exchange, Norman rushes away and bursts onto a stage where an orchestra is performing. Blodgett takes him by the hand and pretends he is part of the act, thereby turning a potentially embarrassing and disruptive moment into an opportunity for the audience to greet Norman with applause.
This Is My Love, 1h31
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue, Connie Russell, Jerry Mathers
Roles Mrs. Timberly
Rating64% 3.2339953.2339953.2339953.2339953.233995
Vida Dove lives with younger sister Evelyn and brother-in-law Murray Myer, working in a diner he owns. A former beau of hers, Murray fell in love with her sister, married her, then became paralyzed from a car crash. He now suffers from frequent convulsions and is bitter and cruel to Vida, calling her a spinster and cajoling her to marry and move out.
It Should Happen to You, 1h26
Directed by George Cukor, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Connie Gilchrist, Vaughn Taylor
Roles Elderly Customer at Macy's (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5961653.5961653.5961653.5961653.596165
The script, by Garson Kanin, is about a naive young woman named Gladys Glover who yearns for fame. Strolling through Central Park, she meets a young handsome man named Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon). He is a maker of documentaries (apparently equipped only with a handheld 16mm camera). He is taking brief shots of people in the park. He films Gladys feeding pigeons and introduces himself.
Walk East on Beacon!, 1h38
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, Karel Štěpánek, Louisa Horton Hill, Peter Capell
Rating57% 2.896872.896872.896872.896872.89687
Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) a scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy.
An American in Paris, 1h53
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Madge Blake
Roles Flower Lady (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.598283.598283.598283.598283.59828
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist who is a longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). At the ground-floor bar, Henri tells Adam about his cultured girlfriend. Jerry joins them later, before going out to sell his art.
The Fat Man, 1h17
Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, John Russell, Clinton Sundberg, Jayne Meadows
Roles une vendeuse (non-créditée)
Rating61% 3.0941053.0941053.0941053.0941053.094105
Portly amateur detective Runyan is hired by dental nurse Adams to investigate the unexplained murder of her boss. Suspicion falls on disappeared patient Clark, who had been helped by probable gangster Gordon. Runyan finds Boyd, Clark’s former lover and briefly his wife, who reveals that Clark had done time in jail. The police tell Runyan it was for robbery of half a million unrecovered dollars. In jail, Clark had a cellmate Deets, with whom he shared everything. On release, Deets had claimed Clark’s share of the loot from Gordon and had promised to eliminate Clark, whose corpse he left in a burnt-out truck. When he realised Clark had been having dental treatment, so his teeth could be identified, he killed first the unfortunate dentist and then the nurse as well. Runyan tracks him down and in a final shoot-out he meets his end.
The Mating Season, 1h41
Directed by Mitchell Leisen, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Larry Keating
Roles Spinster
Rating73% 3.6903153.6903153.6903153.6903153.690315
Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio. Val has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney). To help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook. Ellen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her. After the party, Val follows her home and persuades her to move in with them.