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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.
Selected filmography
- This Is My Affair (1937) - Dowager
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - Betsy Ann's Mother (uncredited)
- The Women (1939) - Grandma (uncredited)
- Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Auntie Maude (uncredited)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) - Old Lady (uncredited)
- Blondie for Victory (1942) - Mrs. Webster, Housewife of America (uncredited)
- The Navy Comes Through (1942) - Mrs. Duttson (uncredited)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943) - Mrs. Mellie Sewell
- Address Unknown (1944) - Mrs. Delaney
- Casanova Brown (1944) - Mrs. Dean (uncredited)
- The Lost Weekend (1945) - Mrs. Deveridge
- The Stork Club (1945) - Mrs. Edith Bates
- Shock (1946) - Mrs. Penny (uncredited)
- To Each His Own (1946) - Mrs. Nix
- The Bride Wore Boots (1946) - Janet Doughton
- Temptation (1946) - Mrs. McCormick (uncredited)
- Blondie's Holiday (1947) - Mrs. Breckenbridge
- A Likely Story (1947) - Little Old Lady
- A Double Life (1947) - Actress in 'A Gentleman's Gentleman'
- Song of Surrender (1949) - Miss Rivercomb (uncredited)
- One Too Many (1950) - Mrs. Sullivan
- The Mating Season (1951) - Spinster
- The Fat Man (1951) - Saleswoman (uncredited)
- An American in Paris (1951) - Flower Lady (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951) - Mrs. Reed, Tourist Stop Manager
- Walk East on Beacon (1952) - Old Lady (uncredited)
- It Should Happen to You (1954) - Elderly Customer at Macy's (uncredited)
- A Star is Born (1954) - Boardinghouse Woman (uncredited)
- This Is My Love (1954) - Mrs. Timberly
- The Seven Year Itch (1955) - Woman in Train Station (uncredited)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Extra (uncredited)
- Official Detective "The Silk Stocking Gang" (1958) - Mrs. Claudia Montgomery
- Alias Jesse James (1959) - 'Ma' James
- Blue Denim (1959) - Aunt Bidda
- The Trouble with Angels (1966) - Mrs. Eldridge
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - Mrs. Galbrace (uncredited)