Mary Young (actress)

For other people with the same name, see Mary Young.
Mary Young
Born Mary Young
(1879-06-21)June 21, 1879
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died June 23, 1971(1971-06-23) (aged 92)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Other names Mary Marsden Young
Occupation Actress
Years active 1937-1968
Spouse(s) John Craig

Mary Young (June 21, 1879 - June 23, 1971)[1] was an American stage and film actress whose career spanned the first sixty years of the 20th century. A gorgeous well-rounded beauty in her youth, she started in the legitimate theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television. Her spouse was handsome debonair Broadway actor John Craig (1868-1932). On stage she scored a memorable hit in 1913 playing opposite John Barrymore in the stage version of Believe Me Xantippe. Her first Broadway credit was in 1899. She was approaching sixty in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. Her last television appearance was in a 1968 episode of Gomer Pyle.

She died at La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1971.[2]

Selected filmography

Young, left with John Barrymore and Frank Campeau in the 1913 Broadway play Believe Me, Xantippe[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edit. c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
  2. ↑ Who Was Who On Screen 2nd edit. p.503 by Evelyn Mack Truitt c.1977
  3. ↑ The Broadway League. "Believe Me Xantippe - IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information". ibdb.com.
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