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 nonprofessional 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 McGraths 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 actordirectorplaywright Joshua Logan On Broadway she played Prossy in Katharine Cornells production of Candida She made her film debut in John Fords 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 Hitchcocks 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 Natwicks memorable roles was in The House Without a Christmas Tree 1972 which starred Jason Robards and Lisa Lucas The programs success spawned three sequels The Thanksgiving Treasure The Easter Promise and Addie and The King of Hearts In 1971 Natwick costarred 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 197374 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 offBroadway theatre company She gueststarred on such television series as McMillan Wife Family Alice The Love Boat Hawaii FiveO 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia