Mary Young (actress)

(For others named Mary Young, see disambiguation page)

Mary Young (June 21, 1879 - June 23, 1971)^[1] 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.^[2]

Selected filmography

Young, left with John Barrymore and Frank Campeau in the 1913 Broadway play Believe Me, Xantippe^[3]

• This Is My Affair (1937)
• Blondie for Victory (1942)(*uncredited)
• Watch on the Rhine (1943)
• Address Unknown (1944)
• The Stork Club (1945)
• The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
• A Double Life (1947)
• An American in Paris (1951)(*uncredited)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951)
• A Star is Born (1954)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
• Alias Jesse James (1959)
• Blue Denim (1959)
• The Trouble with Angels (1966)

See also

• List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners

References

External links

• Mary Young at IMDb.com
• Mary Young at IBDb.com (with wrong birthdate)
• portraits (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
• magazine portraits early 1920s: #1,..#2, ..#3
• cover and cast for program of Boston run of Believe Me Xantippe
• Mary Young holds John Barrymore and Frank Campeau at gunpoint Believe Me Xantippe (1913)