Mary Brian
The Sweetest Girl in Pictures (nickname) · Louise Byrdie Dantzler
- Туған күні:
- 1906-02-17
- Қайтыс болған күні:
- 2002-12-30
- Туған жері:
- Corsicana, Texas, USA
Өмірбаяны
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.
Фильмографиясы
Silenciosos Barulhentos
2024
(archive footage)
Dragnet
1947
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Anne Hogan
Danger! Women at Work
1943
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Pert
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Helen
Calaboose
1943
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Doris Lane
I Was a Criminal
1941
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife
Affairs of Cappy Ricks
1937
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Frances 'Frankie' Ricks
Navy Blues
1937
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Doris Kimbell
Two's Company
1936
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Julia Madison
Killer at Large
1936
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Linda Allen
Three Married Men
1936
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Jennie Mullins
Once in a Million
1936
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Suzanne
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1936
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Frances Clayton
Расточитель
1936
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Sally Barnaby
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Hope Wolfinger
Чарли Чен в Париже
1935
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Yvette Lamartine
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
1934
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Self
College Rhythm
1934
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Gloria Van Dayham
Monte Carlo Nights
1934
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Mary Vernon
Ever Since Eve
1934
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Elizabeth Vandergrift
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Muriel Ross aka Muriel Rossi
Fog
1933
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Mary Fulton
One Year Later
1933
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Molly Collins
Moonlight and Pretzels
1933
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Sally Upton
Song of the Eagle
1933
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Elsa Kranzmeyer
The World Gone Mad
1933
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Diane Cromwell
Girl Missing
1933
TMDb 5.2 / 10
June Dale
Тяжело управлять
1933
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Ruth Waters
Manhattan Tower
1932
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mary Harper
The Unwritten Law
1932
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Ruth Evans
Blessed Event
1932
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Gladys Price
It's Tough to Be Famous
1932
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Janet Porter McClenahan
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Runaround
1931
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Evelyn
Homicide Squad
1931
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Millie
Gun Smoke
1931
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Sue Vancey
Первая полоса
1931
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Peggy Grant
Captain Applejack
1931
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Poppy Faire
The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Gwen Cavendish
Only Saps Work
1930
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Barbara Tanner
The Social Lion
1930
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Cynthia Brown
Paramount on Parade
1930
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Sweetheart (Dream Girl)
The Light of Western Stars
1930
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Ruth Hammond
Только храбрые
1930
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Barbara Calhoun
Burning Up
1930
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Ruth Morgan
The Kibitzer
1930
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Josie Lazarus
The Marriage Playground
1929
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Judith Wheater
Вирджинец
1929
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Molly Stark Wood
The River of Romance
1929
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Lucy Jeffers
The Man I Love
1929
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Celia Fields
Black Waters
1929
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Eunice
Someone to Love
1928
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Joan Kendricks
Varsity
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Fay
Forgotten Faces
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Alice Deane
The Big Killing
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Mary Beagle - Old Man Beagle's Daughter
Harold Teen
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lillums Lovewell
Partners in Crime
1928
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl
Under the Tonto Rim
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lucy Watson
Two Flaming Youths
1927
Mary Gilfoil
Shanghai Bound
1927
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Sheila
Man Power
1927
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Alice Stoddard
Running Wild
1927
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Elizabeth Finch
Knockout Reilly
1927
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Mary Malone
Her Father Said No
1927
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Charlotte Hamilton
Stepping Along
1926
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Molly Taylor
The Prince of Tempters
1926
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Mary
Beau Geste
1926
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Isabel Rivers
More Pay - Less Work
1926
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Betty Ricks
Brown of Harvard
1926
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Mary Abbot
Paris at Midnight
1926
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Victorine Tallefer
Behind the Front
1926
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Betty Bartlett-Cooper
The Enchanted Hill
1926
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Hallie Purdy
He's a Prince!
1925
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Girl
The Street of Forgotten Men
1925
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Mary Vanhern
The Air Mail
1925
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Minnie Wade
The Little French Girl
1925
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Alix Vervier
Peter Pan
1924
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Wendy Darling