Mary Young (actress)

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Mary Young
Born Mary Young
June 21, 1879
New York City, New York
Died June 23, 1971
La Jolla, California
Other names Mary Marsden Young
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) John Craig

Mary Young (June 21, 1879 - June 23, 1971)[1] was an American stage and film actress who's 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 approaching sixty in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made much 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.[2]

Selected filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edit. c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
  2. ↑ Who Was Who On Screen 2nd edit. p.503 by Evelyn Mack Truitt c.1977

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