Mary Brian

Mary Brian ( born February 17, 1906 in Corsicana, Texas, † December 30, 2002 in Del Mar, California, actually: Louise Byrdie Dantzler ) was an American actress whose career in the silent film era reached its climax.

Career

The actress began her film career in 1924 at the age of 16 years as Wendy in the successful film adaptation of JM Barrie's Peter Pan, directed by Herbert Brenon. She was under contract with Paramount Pictures, which they announced as The Sweetest Girl in Pictures and her many roles gave a cute girl -next-door in the subsequent period. In 1926 she was on the side of William Haines and Jack Pickford in the school comedy Brown of Harvard one of her biggest commercial successes. In the same year she was voted one of WAMPAS Baby Stars.

The actress made ​​the transition to sound film without any problems and took increasingly serious roles in films such as The Man from Virginia alongside Gary Cooper and Lewis Milestone's comedy The Front Page at the side of Adolphe Menjou. Among her most famous roles was in addition to the performances WC Fields in The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Overall, however, her career suffered in the definition of Brian on the role of the young naive compartment from which they could not break permanently with almost 30.

Soon after 1935, Mary Brian went to England, where she made some films produced cheaply in order to then withdraw to the stage. It was not until 1943, she returned for several character roles to only occasionally to take on roles in television after 1947.

At Mary Brian remembers a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, height 1559 Vine Street.

Mary Brian was married until his death the editor George Tomasini.

Filmography (selection)

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