Mary Field

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Birth Place

Wimbledon, England, GB

Died

December 23, 1968

Biography

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Mary Field was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1926, she began her career in educational film production. Early on in her acting career, Field landed roles in various films, including "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937), "White Banners" (1938) with Claude Rains and "Cowboy From Brooklyn" (1938). She also appeared in the drama "Dancing Co-ed" (1939) with Lana Turne...

Filmography

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Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)

Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)

The Missouri Traveler (1958)

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

The Price of Fear (1956)

The Toy Tiger (1956)

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Great Gildersleeve, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) That Female Man Trap!

Three Faces Of Eve, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) On Your Way To Hollywood

Biography

Mary Field was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. In 1926, she began her career in educational film production. Early on in her acting career, Field landed roles in various films, including "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937), "White Banners" (1938) with Claude Rains and "Cowboy From Brooklyn" (1938). She also appeared in the drama "Dancing Co-ed" (1939) with Lana Turner, the Robert Livingston western "The Trail Blazers" (1940) and the historical drama "The Howards of Virginia" (1940) with Cary Grant. She kept working in film throughout the forties, starring in the thriller "Ministry of Fear" (1944) with Ray Milland, the action picture "A Lady Takes a Chance" (1944) with Jean Arthur and the dramatic adaptation "Frenchman's Creek" (1944) with Joan Fontaine. She also appeared in "The Unseen" (1945) with Joel McCrea. Toward the end of her career, she continued to act in "Up in Central Park" (1948) with Deanna Durbin, the comedic fantasy "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid" (1948) with William Powell and the Dan Dailey dramatic adaptation "Chicken Every Sunday" (1949). She also appeared in the Raymond Walburn comedy "Henry, the Rainmaker" (1949) and the Raymond Walburn comedy "Father Makes Good" (1950). Field was most recently credited in "Time to Choose: A PBS/NPR Voter's Guide" (PBS, 2000-01). Field passed away in December 1968 at the age of 59.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)

Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)

The Missouri Traveler (1958)

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

The Price of Fear (1956)

The Toy Tiger (1956)

To Hell and Back (1955)

The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Sister Mary Theresa

Lucy Gallant (1955)

Four Guns to the Border (1954)

Champ for a Day (1953)

The Lady Wants Mink (1953)

Anything Can Happen (1952)

Something to Live For (1952)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Dear Brat (1951)

Passage West (1951)

The Barefoot Mailman (1951)

Paid in Full (1950)

Dear Wife (1950)

Father Makes Good (1950)

Edge of Doom (1950)

Mary Jane Glennon

Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

Let's Dance (1950)

You're My Everything (1949)

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)

Henry, the Rainmaker (1949)

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Top O' the Morning (1949)

One Sunday Afternoon (1949)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

Telephone operator

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

Up in Central Park (1948)

A Song Is Born (1948)

The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Sitting Pretty (1948)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)

Joan of Arc (1948)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

Unconquered (1947)

Out of the Past (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)

Welcome Stranger (1947)

Life with Father (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

Louisiana (1947)

The Pilgrim Lady (1947)

Telephone operator

High Conquest (1947)

Where There's Life (1947)

The Unfaithful (1947)

Driftwood (1947)

Dark Passage (1947)

Lady Luck (1946)

Tall thin woman

Rendezvous with Annie (1946)

Song of the South (1946)

Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946)

Murder in the Music Hall (1946)

Sentimental Journey (1946)

Talk About a Lady (1946)

Telephone operator

One More Tomorrow (1946)

The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

Bradford's secretary

Because of Him (1946)

The Dark Corner (1946)

House of Horrors (1946)

Little Giant (1946)

Black Angel (1946)

Wonder Man (1945)

District attorney's secretary

The Unseen (1945)

The Affairs of Susan (1945)

Love Letters (1945)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Up in Mabel's Room (1944)

Priscilla's sister

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Ministry of Fear (1944)

The Port of Forty Thieves (1944)

Three Little Sisters (1944)

Carrie Higginbotham

Ladies of Washington (1944)

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Cashier at restaurant

Once Upon a Time (1944)

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (1944)

Holy Matrimony (1943)

Oxford's secretary

The Gorilla Man (1943)

The Crystal Ball (1943)

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Salute to the Marines (1943)

Princess O'Rourke (1943)

Three Hearts for Julia (1942)

The Gay Sisters (1942)

Get Hep to Love (1942)

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

I Married a Witch (1942)

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

The Great Gildersleeve (1942)

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)

Kirsty Lundstrom

The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)

Ball of Fire (1942)

Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

Elizabeth's maid

This Above All (1942)

Just Off Broadway (1942)

Wake Island (1942)

Now, Voyager (1942)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Mother in railroad station

Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

Affectionately Yours (1941)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Wild Geese Calling (1941)

Father Steps Out (1941)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

Golden Hoofs (1941)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Sea Raiders (1941)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

Legion of the Lawless (1940)

Convicted Woman (1940)

The Trail Blazers (1940)

Girls of the Road (1940)

Charter Pilot (1940)

My Son, My Son! (1940)

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)

Yesterday's Heroes (1940)

When Tomorrow Comes (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939)

Indianapolis lab assistant

Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

The Fighting Gringo (1939)

Sandra Courtney

Society Smugglers (1939)

The Sun Never Sets (1939)

The Family Next Door (1939)

Little Accident (1939)

Eternally Yours (1939)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Unexpected Father (1939)

Stunt Pilot (1939)

White Banners (1938)

Slander House (1938)

His Exciting Night (1938)

The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse (1938)

There Goes My Heart (1938)

Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

The Storm (1938)

Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

Hoosier Schoolboy (1937)

Call It a Day (1937)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Producer (Special)

Time to Choose: A PBS/NPR Voter's Guide (2000)

Life Events

1926

Began her career in educational film production

1934

First feature film as co-director "Strictly Business"

Videos

Great Gildersleeve, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) That Female Man Trap! Title character (Harold Peavy) is hiding in the basement (visited by Lillian Randolph as Birdie) to avoid aggressive spinster Amelia (Mary Field), who’s made an unwelcome house call on singing pupil Leroy (Freddie Mercer, a highly trained singer, doing his own vocal, on an aria often sung by Enrico Caruso), who’s sort-of rescued by sister Margie (Nancy Gates) and her band, early in the first feature in the RKO series, The Great Gildersleeve, 1942.

Three Faces Of Eve, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) On Your Way To Hollywood Georgian Ralph White (David Wayne) discovers some gaudy wardrobe purchases and confronts his wife (Joanne Woodward, title character), early in Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve, 1957.

Major And The Minor, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Why I Hate Women Susan (Ginger Rogers), fed up and leaving New York, finds out her saved-up train fare home isn't enough, improvising her part of the premise, in Billy Wilder's first directing effort, The Major And The Minor, 1942.

I Married A Witch (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Fairer Than All Women Influence of producer Preston Sturges apparent, even on French director Rene Clair during his wartime Hollywood sojourn, opening scenes with protagonist Fredric March playing various of his ancestors, discussing witches, from I Married A Witch, 1942, co-starring Veronica Lake.

Eternally Yours (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Great Arturo Anita (Loretta Young) and her shower quests with advice from Gloria (Eve Arden) decide to go and see The Great Arturo (David Niven) where Anita and The Great Arturo discover a strong emotion through eye contact in Eternally Yours, 1939.

Ministry Of Fear (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You Killed Me! Widower Neale (Ray Milland) and Willi (Carl Esmond), hunting spies in wartime London, join the seance hosted by Mrs. Bellane (Hillary Brooke), Cost (Dan Duryea) also a late arrival, in Fritz Lang's Ministry Of Fear, 1944, from a Graham Greene novel.

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