Mildred Natwick

Mildred Natwick ( born June 19, 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, † October 25, 1994 in New York City, New York) was an American theater and film actress. She played prominent roles in Hollywood films over a period of around 50 years.

Life

Mildred Natwick was born as the daughter of a businessman in Baltimore and attended the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Already at their college times, her interest had developed into acting and she began acting in amateur groups, then later she worked full-time as an actress. In Cape Cod, she performed alongside the then unknown, later film stars James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Your Broadwaybüt was Mildred Natwick 1932 in the piece Carry Nation. Later she appeared in plays by George Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward. She played there the whole 1930s and even after the beginning of her film career, she was on Broadway at least temporarily connected. Overall, they came so to 1979 to 29 Broadway shows.

Your successful film debut in 1940 in a supporting role in John Ford's The Long Road to Cardiff. You have entered later on several occasions directed by John Ford. The actress was in her first film already 35 years old, so she was almost seen in her entire career only in character roles. They played through their idiosyncrasies showy in their character but very different personalities. In 1955 she starred in the role of a witch integrant the dialogue partner of Danny Kaye in his famous The cup with the fan scene in the comedy The Court Jester. In the same year she was cast by Alfred Hitchcock in one of her few leading roles in the black comedy The Trouble with Harry. She played in a altjungferliche lady timidly approaching Edmund Gwenns figure.

For the role of a congested, rather pitiful old woman in Barefoot in the Park Natwick was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had this role embodies previously over a period of four years on Broadway. Addition, however, she also appeared in numerous series as a guest star such as in Magnum, Trapper John, MD or Murder She Wrote. She received an Emmy in 1972 as best actress of a short series of five appearances in the series The Snoop Sisters. After about 90 film and television appearances, her career took a supporting role as Familienpatriachin in the award-winning, occupied with numerous film stars drama Dangerous Liaisons a degree.

Mildred Natwick died in 1994 at the age of 89 years to cancer. She was never married and had no children. She was buried beside her sister on the at Lorraine Cemetery in Baltimore.

Filmography (selection)

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