Mary Nash
Acting
Biography
Mary Nash (born Mary Honora Ryan) was a noted American stage and screen actress.
Born: August 14, 1884
Place of Birth: Troy, New York, USA
Known For
The Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Heidi
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
Come and Get It
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Charlie Chan in Panama
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
The Little Princess
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
Gold Rush Maisie
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
The Human Comedy
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Men of Boys Town
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Filmography
as Mrs. Muller
as Sarah Duncan
as The Duenna
as Duenna
as Mrs. Vera Preston
as Queen
as Mrs. Fame
as Miss Hicks
as Emma Hope
as Mrs. Maitland
as Margaret Lord
as Sarah Davis
as Miss Purvis
as Miss Sarah Finch
as Miss Mac Daid
as Amanda Minchin
as Mrs. Pryor
as Fraulein Rottenmeier
as Mrs. Jenny Ball
as Duchess Anna of Elberfield
as Emma Louise Glasgow
as Mrs. Fresnel
as Edith Hayes
as Rozika