Mary Brian
Biografia
Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002), was an American actress, who made the transition from silent films to sound films. Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." After her showing in a beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed close for the rest of their lives. Ralston described both Bronson and Brian as 'very charming people'. The studio, who created her stage name for the movie and said she was age 16 instead of 18, because the latter sounded too old for the role, then signed her to a long-term motion picture contract. Brian played Fancy Vanhern, daughter of Percy Marmont, in Brenon's The Street of Forgotten Men, which had newcomer Louise Brooks in an uncredited debut role as a moll. Her first talkie was Varsity, which was filmed with part-sound and talking sequences, opposite Buddy Rogers. After successfully making the transition to sound, she co-starred with Gary Cooper, Walter Huston and Richard Arlen in one of the earliest Western talkies, The Virginian, her first all-talkie feature. In it, she played a spirited frontier heroine, schoolmarm Molly Stark Wood, who was the love interest of the Virginian. Brian co-starred in several hits during the 1930s, including The Royal Family of Broadway, Paramount on Parade, and The Front Page. After her contract with Paramount ended in 1932, Brian decided to freelance, which was unusual in a period when multi-year contracts with one studio were common. That same year, she appeared on the vaudeville stage at New York's Palace Theatre. Also in the same year, she starred in Manhattan Tower. When World War II hit in 1941, Brian began traveling to entertain the troops, ending up spending most of the war years traveling the world with the U.S.O., and entertaining servicemen from the South Pacific to Europe, including Italy and North Africa.Flying to England on a troop shoot, Mary got caught in the Battle of the Bulge and spent the Christmas of 1944 with the soldiers fighting that battle. She appeared in only a handful of films thereafter. Her last performance on the silver screen was in Dragnet, a B-movie in which she played Anne Hogan opposite Henry Wilcoxon. Over the course of 22 years, Brian had appeared in more than 79 movies. She played in the stage comedy Mary Had a Little... in the 1951 in Melbourne, Australia, co-starring with John Hubbard. Like many "older" actresses, during the 1950s Brian created a career for herself in television. Perhaps her most notable role was playing the title character's mother in Meet Corliss Archer in 1954. She also dedicated much time to portrait painting after her acting years.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Silenciosos Barulhentos
Film • 2024
jako (archive footage)
Meet Corliss Archer
Serial • 1954
Dragnet
Film • 1947
jako Anne Hogan
Danger! Women at Work
Film • 1943
jako Pert
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Film • 1943
jako Helen
Calaboose
Film • 1943
jako Doris Lane
I Was a Criminal
Film • 1941
jako Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
Film • 1937
jako Frances 'Frankie' Ricks
Navy Blues
Film • 1937
jako Doris Kimbell
Two's Company
Film • 1936
jako Julia Madison
Killer at Large
Film • 1936
jako Linda Allen
Three Married Men
Film • 1936
jako Jennie Mullins
Once in a Million
Film • 1936
jako Suzanne
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Film • 1936
jako Frances Clayton
Spendthrift
Film • 1936
jako Sally Barnaby
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Film • 1935
jako Hope Wolfinger
Charlie Chan in Paris
Film • 1935
jako Yvette Lamartine
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Film • 1934
jako Self
College Rhythm
Film • 1934
jako Gloria Van Dayham
Monte Carlo Nights
Film • 1934
jako Mary Vernon
Ever Since Eve
Film • 1934
jako Elizabeth Vandergrift
Shadows of Sing Sing
Film • 1933
jako Muriel Ross aka Muriel Rossi
Fog
Film • 1933
jako Mary Fulton
One Year Later
Film • 1933
jako Molly Collins
Moonlight and Pretzels
Film • 1933
jako Sally Upton
Song of the Eagle
Film • 1933
jako Elsa Kranzmeyer
The World Gone Mad
Film • 1933
jako Diane Cromwell
Girl Missing
Film • 1933
jako June Dale
Hard to Handle
Film • 1933
jako Ruth Waters
Manhattan Tower
Film • 1932
jako Mary Harper
The Unwritten Law
Film • 1932
jako Ruth Evans
Blessed Event
Film • 1932
jako Gladys Price
It's Tough to Be Famous
Film • 1932
jako Janet Porter McClenahan
Hollywood Halfbacks
Film • 1931
The Runaround
Film • 1931
jako Evelyn
Homicide Squad
Film • 1931
jako Millie
Gun Smoke
Film • 1931
jako Sue Vancey
The Front Page
Film • 1931
jako Peggy Grant
Captain Applejack
Film • 1931
jako Poppy Faire
The Royal Family of Broadway
Film • 1930
jako Gwen Cavendish
Only Saps Work
Film • 1930
jako Barbara Tanner
The Social Lion
Film • 1930
jako Cynthia Brown
Paramount on Parade
Film • 1930
jako Sweetheart (Dream Girl)
The Light of Western Stars
Film • 1930
jako Ruth Hammond
Only the Brave
Film • 1930
jako Barbara Calhoun
Burning Up
Film • 1930
jako Ruth Morgan
The Kibitzer
Film • 1930
jako Josie Lazarus
The Marriage Playground
Film • 1929
jako Judith Wheater
The Virginian
Film • 1929
jako Molly Stark Wood
The River of Romance
Film • 1929
jako Lucy Jeffers
The Man I Love
Film • 1929
jako Celia Fields
Black Waters
Film • 1929
jako Eunice
Someone to Love
Film • 1928
jako Joan Kendricks
Varsity
Film • 1928
jako Fay
Forgotten Faces
Film • 1928
jako Alice Deane
The Big Killing
Film • 1928
jako Mary Beagle - Old Man Beagle's Daughter
Harold Teen
Film • 1928
jako Lillums Lovewell
Partners in Crime
Film • 1928
jako Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl
Under the Tonto Rim
Film • 1928
jako Lucy Watson
Two Flaming Youths
Film • 1927
jako Mary Gilfoil
Shanghai Bound
Film • 1927
jako Sheila
Man Power
Film • 1927
jako Alice Stoddard
Running Wild
Film • 1927
jako Elizabeth Finch
Knockout Reilly
Film • 1927
jako Mary Malone
Her Father Said No
Film • 1927
jako Charlotte Hamilton
Stepping Along
Film • 1926
jako Molly Taylor
The Prince of Tempters
Film • 1926
jako Mary
Beau Geste
Film • 1926
jako Isabel Rivers
More Pay - Less Work
Film • 1926
jako Betty Ricks
Brown of Harvard
Film • 1926
jako Mary Abbot
Paris at Midnight
Film • 1926
jako Victorine Tallefer
Behind the Front
Film • 1926
jako Betty Bartlett-Cooper
The Enchanted Hill
Film • 1926
jako Hallie Purdy
He's a Prince!
Film • 1925
jako Girl
The Street of Forgotten Men
Film • 1925
jako Mary Vanhern
The Air Mail
Film • 1925
jako Minnie Wade
The Little French Girl
Film • 1925
jako Alix Vervier
Piotruś Pan
Film • 1924
jako Wendy Darling