Mildred Natwick

Mildred Natwick

Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actress. In 1967, she earned an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in Barefoot in the Park. She was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1957 and 1972 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for her work in the miniseries The Snoop Sisters, opposite Helen Hayes. Natwick began performing on the stage at age 21 with "The Vagabonds", a non-professional theatre group in Baltimore. She soon joined the University Players on Cape Cod. Natwick made her Broadway debut in 1932 playing Mrs. Noble in Frank McGrath’s play Carry Nation, about the famous temperance crusader Carrie Nation. Throughout the 1930s she starred in a number of plays, frequently collaborating with friend and actor-director-playwright Joshua Logan. On Broadway, she played "Prossy" in Katharine Cornell's production of Candida. She made her film debut in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home as a Cockney slattern, and portrayed the landlady in The Enchanted Cottage (1945). Natwick is remembered for small but memorable roles in several John Ford film classics, including 3 Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and The Quiet Man (1952). She played Miss Ivy Gravely, in Alfred Hitchcock's Trouble with Harry (1955), and a sorceress in The Court Jester (1956). Natwick in the film The Trouble with Harry in 1955 She continued to appear onstage, and made regular guest appearances in television series. She was twice nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, the same year she also starred in Tammy and the Bachelor with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen and in 1972 for the musical 70 Girls 70. She returned to film in Barefoot in the Park (1967) as the mother of the character played by Jane Fonda. The role earned Natwick her only Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting actress. One of Natwick's memorable roles was in The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972), which starred Jason Robards and Lisa Lucas. The program's success spawned three sequels: The Thanksgiving Treasure, The Easter Promise, and Addie and The King of Hearts. In 1971, Natwick co-starred with Helen Hayes in the ABC Movie of the Week, Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate, in which their characters worked together as amateur sleuths. The success of that telefilm resulted in a 1973-74 series, also called The Snoop Sisters, which was part of The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. For her performance, Natwick won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. In 1981, Natwick joined Hayes as the first members of the Board of Advisors to the Riverside Shakespeare Company. Both attended and supported several fund raisers for that off-Broadway theatre company. She guest-starred on such television series as McMillan & Wife, Family, Alice, The Love Boat, Hawaii Five-O, The Bob Newhart Show, and Murder, She Wrote. She made her final film appearance at the age of 83 in the 1988 historical drama Dangerous Liaisons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mildred Natwick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1905-06-19

Died: 1994-10-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1940	The Long Voyage Home	Freda	66
2	1945	The Enchanted Cottage	Mrs. Abigail Minnett	74
3	1945	Yolanda and the Thief	Aunt Amarilla	57
4	1947	The Late George Apley	Amelia Newcombe	68
5	1948	A Woman's Vengeance	Nurse Caroline Braddock	65
6	1948	The Kissing Bandit	Isabella	30
7	1948	3 Godfathers	The Mother	67
8	1949	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	Abby Allshard ("Old Iron Pants")	69
9	1950	Cheaper by the Dozen	Mrs. Mebane	63
10	1952	The Quiet Man	The Widow Sarah Tillane	73
11	1952	Against All Flags	Molvina MacGregor	60
12	1955	The Trouble with Harry	Miss Gravely	70
13	1955	The Court Jester	Griselda	73
14	1956	Blithe Spirit	Madame Arcati	80
15	1956	Teenage Rebel	Grace Hewitt	65
16	1956	Eloise	Nanny	0
17	1957	Tammy and the Bachelor	Aunt Renie	70
18	1962	Arsenic & Old Lace	Martha Brewster	65
19	1963	The Power and the Glory		0
20	1967	Barefoot in the Park	Ethel Banks	71
21	1969	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	Jenny Grant	58
22	1969	Trilogy	Miss Miller	60
23	1969	The Maltese Bippy	Molly Fletcher	54
24	1971	Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate	Shelby Saunders	59
25	1972	The House Without a Christmas Tree	Grandma Mills	63
26	1972	The Female Instinct	Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson	0
27	1973	Money to Burn	Emily Finnegan	57
28	1973	The Thanksgiving Treasure	Grandma Mills	78
29	1974	Daisy Miller	Mrs. Costello	60
30	1975	At Long Last Love	Mabel Pritchard	51
31	1975	The Easter Promise	Grandma Mills	60
32	1976	Addie and the King of Hearts	Grandma Mills	65
33	1979	You Can't Take it With You	Grand Duchess Olga Katrina	0
34	1982	Maid in America	Mrs. Angstrom	0
35	1982	Kiss Me Goodbye	Mrs. Reilly	57
36	1987	Deadly Deception	Sarah Cleason	65
37	1988	Dangerous Liaisons	Madame de Rosemonde	72

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Mrs. Beam	50
3	1948	Studio One		50
4	1948	Studio One	Kate	50
5	1949	Suspense		49
6	1949	Suspense	Nadia Demarest	49
7	1949	Suspense	Suspicious Woman	49
8	1949	Lights Out		53
9	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Mrs. Boyd	63
10	1951	Tales of Tomorrow		60
11	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Martha Brewster	86
12	1953	Letter to Loretta	Mrs. Redman	65
13	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Aunt Rosalie Tallendier	77
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Millicent Bracegirdle	77
15	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
16	1958	Naked City	Irma Mahoney	55
17	1959	Bonanza	Mrs. Wharton	75
18	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Millicent Shand	71
19	1973	The Evil Touch		55
20	1973	The Snoop Sisters	Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson	72
21	1976	Alice		71
22	1977	The Love Boat	Beatrice Dale	63
23	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
24	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Madge LaSalle	73
25	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Carrie McKittrick	75

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