Veteran stage character actress who came to Hollywood and settled in 1934, best known as Kate Hepburn's socialite mom in The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Shirley Temple's cruel nemesis in both Heidi (1937) and The Little Princess (1939)."
[on her role as Anna Valeska in the play Captain Applejack] You don't know what fun it is. It feels, every night, as if I were stepping forth to a party. All the sobbing and gnashing of teeth that I have been doing had almost worn me out, and this ...
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Mary Ryan
Troy, New York, USA
(age 92)
Los Angeles, California, USA