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Mildred Natwick


Actor
Mildred Natwick

About

Birth Place
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Born
June 19, 1905
Died
October 25, 1994

Biography

Baltimore native Mildred Natwick earned a degree in theater arts from Bennett College and immediately got to work on the stage. She performed with a traveling non-professional group called the Vagabonds in the late 1920s and eventually hooked up with rising stars like Henry Fonda and James Stewart in the esteemed University Players on Cape Cod. She finally hit Broadway in the 1932 produc...

Biography

Baltimore native Mildred Natwick earned a degree in theater arts from Bennett College and immediately got to work on the stage. She performed with a traveling non-professional group called the Vagabonds in the late 1920s and eventually hooked up with rising stars like Henry Fonda and James Stewart in the esteemed University Players on Cape Cod. She finally hit Broadway in the 1932 production of "Carrie Nation." She worked Broadway stages steadily through the 1930s, not finding her way to Hollywood until she was cast in the 1940 war drama "The Long Voyage Home," starring John Wayne. Her acting impressed director John Ford, who cast her three more times in three more John Wayne films through the end of the 1940s. Natwick had firmly established herself as a character actress who could be counted on to carry a scene--and possibly even steal it--but she never strayed too far from her first love, the theater. She continued to move between the two mediums, gathering respect and acclaim in each, in the form of a Tony Award nomination for 1957's "Waltz of the Toreadors" and the 1972 musical "70 Girls 70," as well as an Academy Award Nomination for 1967's "Barefoot in the Park."

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3 Godfathers (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Robert William Pedro Highest John Ford sentiment as Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro (Pedro Armendariz) and Kearney (Harry Carey Jr.) receive the dying wishes of "The Mother" (Mildred Natwick) in 3 Godfathers, 1949.
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Sayeth Solomon Opening with appearances by Sandy Baron, Norman Fell, Reva Rose, Marty Ingels (with cameos by Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes), Michael Constantine, Peggy Cass, Suzanne Pleshette, Murray Hamilton and Hilarie Thompson, part of the tour group in If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, 1969.
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Lord Of The Reedy River Now in Switzerland, resolute American Samantha (Suzanne Pleshette) withstands the further advances of tour-guide Charlie (Ian MacShane) offering fondue, while the kids (Hilarie Thompson, Luke Halpin) hit a hostel where Donovan offers an original composition, in If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, 1969.
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Sort Of Foreign Looking Arrived at London, Suzanne Pleshette appoints herself to seek the tour guide (Ian MacShane as Charlie) who’s running late, then Norman Fell, Michael Constantine, Sandy Baron, Murray Hamilton, Peggy Cass, Hilarie Thompson, Pamela Britton, Marty Ingels and others in the roll call, early in If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, 1969.
Quiet Man, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) See Here Little Man! Dannaher (Victor McLaglen) throws a tantrum, interrupting Michaeleen (Barry FitzGerald) and Thornton (John Wayne), who’s about to buy his old family home from widow Tillane (Mildred Natwick), though his sister Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara) doesn’t object, in John Ford’s The Quiet Man, 1952.
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He'll Live To Make Sergeant The famous and largely accidental "lightning" sequence which won cinematographer Winton Hoch his Academy Award, in which Brittles (John Wayne) helps the doctor (Arthur Shields) and Abby (Mildred Natwick) save an injured soldier in John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949.
Court Jester, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Pellet With The Poison Danny Kaye as Hawkins (posing as "Giacomo") challenged to a duel, in the famous routine with Jean (Glynis Johns) and Griselda (Mildred Natwick) plotting his escape, in The Court Jester, 1956, from Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.
Yolanda and the Thief -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credit sequence for MGM's audacious 1945 musical flop Yolanda and the Thief, starring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer, music by Harry Warren and producer Arthur Freed.

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