Mildred Natwick won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.
16 Facts About Mildred Natwick
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Mildred Natwick's father was the owner of Dunloggin Dairy Farm.
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Mildred Natwick began performing on the stage at age 21 with "The Vagabonds", a non-professional theatre group in Baltimore.
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Mildred Natwick soon joined the University Players on Cape Cod.
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Mildred Natwick made her Broadway debut in 1932 playing Mrs Noble in Frank McGrath's play Carry Nation, about the famous temperance crusader Carrie Nation.
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Mildred Natwick made her film debut in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home as a Cockney slattern, and portrayed the landlady in The Enchanted Cottage.
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Mildred Natwick is remembered for small but memorable roles in several John Ford film classics, including 3 Godfathers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and The Quiet Man.
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Mildred Natwick played Miss Ivy Gravely, in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, and a sorceress in The Court Jester.
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Mildred Natwick has appeared onstage, and made regular guest appearances in television series.
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Mildred Natwick was twice nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, the same year she starred in Tammy and the Bachelor with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen and in 1972 for the musical 70 Girls 70.
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Mildred Natwick returned to film in Barefoot in the Park as the mother of the character played by Jane Fonda.
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In 1971, Mildred 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.
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In 1981, Mildred Natwick joined Hayes as the first members of the Board of Advisors to the Riverside Shakespeare Company.
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Mildred Natwick made her final film appearance at age 83 in the historical drama Dangerous Liaisons.
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On October 25,1994, Mildred Natwick died of cancer at her home in Manhattan at age 89.
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Mildred Natwick is interred at Lorraine Park Cemetery in Baltimore.