Mary Casson was an English theatre actress who made her name in portraying characters in the plays of William Shakespeare and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan.
10 Facts About Mary Casson
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Mary Casson was born on 22 May 1914 in the British capital of London.
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Mary Casson was the daughter of the actor and director Lewis Casson and the actress Sybil Thorndike.
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Mary Casson was educated at home until she was seven years old when she was sent to the Francis Holland School in Sloane Square.
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Mary Casson made her debut in the theatre at the age of six when she appeared as Belinda Cratchit in a 1921 production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at the Lyric Theatre.
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Mary Casson appeared alongside her mother as Astyanax in The Trojan Women in 1922 and was Warwick's page in Saint Joan in Paris in 1924.
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Three years later, Mary Casson made the first of six successive appearances as Wendy Darling at the Christmas performance of Peter Pan in the Gaiety Theatre and returned there in 1928.
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Mary Casson played the same character twice more in the same play at the Palladium Theatre between 1931 and 1933.
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In 1952, Casson married her daughter's primary school teacher, Ian Haines, and worked as an accompanist in schools in Barking, East London until she retired in the mid-1970s.
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Mary Casson began to play the organ at the age of 70 and continued to play the instrument at the St Andrews Church in Wickhambreaux near Canterbury a few weeks before her death.