Mary Clare

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Mary Clare (July 17, 1894 in London - August 29, 1970 in London) was an British actress who performed both in films and on the stage.

[edit] Biography

Mary Clare started on the London stage at the age of 16 in 1910. She appeared in the film The Black Spider in 1920, and thereafter divided her time between the stage and the cinema. In September 1936 she played the leading role in the play Laura Garnett, by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, at the Arts Theatre Club, London.

In the theatre, she played the lead role of the victim in Agatha Christie's 1945 play Appointment with Death

In films, she was mainly a character actress and in later life often portrayed mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. In 1938, she was featured opposite Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell in The Citadel. The sole film in which she played the leading role was Mrs Pimm of Scotland Yard in 1939. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent and The Lady Vanishes, playing vastly different characters. She played the part of Linda Singer in two different versions of The Constant Nymph and had previously been in the stage version. In 1956, she was in several TV episodes in British television.

[edit] Selected filmography

  • Lights of London (1923) as Hetty Preene
  • The Constant Nymph (1928) as Linda Singer
  • The Constant Nymph (1933) as Linda Singer
  • Say it with Flowers (1934) as Kate Bishop
  • Lorna Doone (1934) Mistress Sara Ridd
  • The Clairvoyant (The Evil Mind) (1934) as Mother
  • Young and Innocent (1937) as Aunt Margaret
  • The Lady Vanishes (1938) as Isabel Nisatona
  • Mrs Pimm of Scotland Yard (1939) as Mrs. Pimm
  • On the Night of the Fire (1940) as Lizzie Crane
  • Old Bill and Son (1941) as Maggie
  • Next of Kin (1942) as Mrs. Webster
  • Fiddlers Three (1944) as Volumnia
  • London Town (1946) as Mrs. Gates
  • Oliver Twist (1948) as Mrs. Corney
  • The Black Rose (1950) as Eloner of Lensford
  • Moulin Rouge (1952) as Madame Louet
  • The Beggers Opera (1953) as Mrs. Peachum
  • The Price of Silence (1959) as Mrs. West

[edit] References

"Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" - edited by John Walker - Published by Harper-Collins - ISBN 0-06-093507-3

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