Margaret Wycherly

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Margaret Wycherly (born October 26, 1881; died June 6, 1956) was an Oscar-nominated English stage and film actress.

[edit] Early life

Wycherley was born in London, England. She was married to writer Bayard Veiller (1869-1943 in 1901. They had a son Anthony Veiller(1903-1965).

[edit] Career

She was primarily a stage actress, appearing in a few silent films but she got her first featured film role in Sergeant York in 1941. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Mother York, though perhaps her best remembered screen role was as "Ma Jarrett", the mother of the psychopathic gangster Cody Jarrett, in White Heat (1949), which famously starred James Cagney.

Wycherly starred in several popular Broadway plays, including Tobacco Road, Random Harvest, Liliom, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Thirteenth chair (which role she reprised in the film of the same name).

Other films include Keeper of the Flame, The Yearling, and Forever Amber.

Wycherley died in New York City, at the age of 74.

[edit] External links

Margaret Wycherly at the Internet Movie Database


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