Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Movie
as Madame de Rosemonde
Mildred Natwick
1905-06-19
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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.
Filmography
Deadly Deception
1987 · Movie
as Sarah Cleason
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV Show
as Carrie McKittrick
Maid in America
1982 · Movie
as Mrs. Angstrom
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982 · Movie
as Mrs. Reilly
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · TV Show
as Madge LaSalle
You Can't Take it With You
1979 · Movie
as Grand Duchess Olga Katrina
Trapper John, M.D.
1979 · TV Show
The Love Boat
1977 · TV Show
as Beatrice Dale
Addie and the King of Hearts
1976 · Movie
as Grandma Mills
Alice
1976 · TV Show
At Long Last Love
1975 · Movie
as Mabel Pritchard
The Easter Promise
1975 · Movie
as Grandma Mills
Daisy Miller
1974 · Movie
as Mrs. Costello
Money to Burn
1973 · Movie
as Emily Finnegan
The Thanksgiving Treasure
1973 · Movie
as Grandma Mills
The Evil Touch
1973 · TV Show
The Snoop Sisters
1973 · TV Show
as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson
The Female Instinct
1972 · Movie
as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson
The House Without a Christmas Tree
1972 · Movie
as Grandma Mills
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · TV Show
as Grace Dubois
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1971 · Movie
as Shelby Saunders
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969 · Movie
as Jenny Grant
Trilogy
1969 · Movie
as Miss Miller
The Maltese Bippy
1969 · Movie
as Molly Fletcher
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV Show
as Millicent Shand
Barefoot in the Park
1967 · Movie
as Ethel Banks
The Power and the Glory
1963 · Movie
Arsenic & Old Lace
1962 · Movie
as Martha Brewster
Bonanza
1959 · TV Show
as Mrs. Wharton
Naked City
1958 · TV Show
as Irma Mahoney
Tammy and the Bachelor
1957 · Movie
as Aunt Renie
Teenage Rebel
1956 · Movie
as Grace Hewitt
Blithe Spirit
1956 · Movie
as Madame Arcati
Eloise
1956 · Movie
as Nanny
The Trouble with Harry
1955 · Movie
as Miss Gravely
The Court Jester
1955 · Movie
as Griselda
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · TV Show
as Aunt Rosalie Tallendier, Millicent Bracegirdle
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · TV Show
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV Show
as Mrs. Redman
The Quiet Man
1952 · Movie
as The Widow Sarah Tillane
Against All Flags
1952 · Movie
as Molvina MacGregor
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Martha Brewster
Tales of Tomorrow
1951 · TV Show
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950 · Movie
as Mrs. Mebane
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · TV Show
as Mrs. Boyd
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · Movie
as Abby Allshard
Suspense
1949 · TV Show
as Suspicious Woman, Nadia Demarest
Lights Out
1949 · TV Show
3 Godfathers
1948 · Movie
as The Mother
A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · Movie
as Nurse Caroline Braddock
The Kissing Bandit
1948 · Movie
as Isabella
Studio One
1948 · TV Show
as Mrs. Beam, Kate
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · TV Show
The Late George Apley
1947 · Movie
as Amelia Newcombe
The Enchanted Cottage
1945 · Movie
as Mrs. Abigail Minnett
Yolanda and the Thief
1945 · Movie
as Aunt Amarilla
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Movie
as Freda
