Mary Clare
Mary Clare ( born July 17, 1894 in London as Mary Clare Absalom † August 29, 1970 ibid ) was a British actress with character roles in theater, film and television. Her acting career spanned 50 years. First, at the theater, about the silent film, sound film, to episodes of TV series. She played from the 1920s to the 1950s, numerous roles in British theater productions. Among disappears in such films as Young and Innocent, The Lady, The Citadel, Oliver Twist, The Black Rose or Moulin Rouge.
Life and career
Mary Clare was born in London in 1894, left her office job in 1910 with £ 50 borrowed money in your pocket to get an education as a stage actress. After she toured for two years by the provincial theater, Mary Claire returned to London to take part in the play A Posy on a ring at the Theater at the Earls Court Exhibition in 1912. Your West End debut in the play Turandot at the St. James Theatre in 1913. 1931 she appeared in Noël Coward 's play Cavalcade that was written specifically for them. Over the decades, Mary Clare played at all the major English stage as a character actress.
In 1920, she moved as an actress of the stage and to the silent movie. In 1931 she played directed by Victor Saville in her first sound film. In the comedy Bill's legacy of director Harry Revier she got her first female lead role due to their outstanding theater experience. Mary Clare's film career has taken in the 1930s on productions such as Bernard Vorhaus The Night Club Queen in 1934, to John Baxter's Musical Say It with Flowers, the Maurice Elvey drama The Clairvoyant, where she acted alongside Claude Rains, to supporting roles in the early masterpieces of the century film director Alfred Hitchcock in young and innocent and 1938 with the role of the Baroness in the famous film classic the Lady Vanishes. The main roles Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. In the same year she was seen in King Vidor's Oscar -nominated drama The Citadel in the role of Mrs. Orlando. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, she played in 1939 in the film noir entanglement.
In the 1940s, we saw Mary Clare on the screen in character roles including in films like the musical paradise of love by Wesley Ruggles, in Harold Frenchs Biography My brother Jonathan, in David Lean's film adaptation of Oliver Twist or in Walter Fordes Comedy Great days, again on the side of actresses colleague Margaret Lockwood. At the beginning of the 1950s she starred in Henry Hathaway's adventure film The Black Rose, in the romantic comedy The smugglers Princess of Val Guest or in John Huston's Oscar - winner film Moulin Rouge. Your last role was in 1959 in the crime drama The Price of Silence staged by director Montgomery Tully.
Mid-1950s, Mary Clare had also turned to television, where he played in episodes of several successful series. Belonged to her appearances in the new medium BBC Sunday - Night Theatre (1953-1954), Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954 ), London Playhouse (1956 ) or Lilli Palmer Theatre ( 1956).
Mary Clare died on August 29, 1970 at the age of 76 years in her hometown of London.