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Mary Marsden Young

New York, 1879 - 1971, La Jolla, California

BiographyBorn Mary Marsden Young
June 21, 1879
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died June 23, 1971 (aged 92)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Other names Mary Marsden Young
Mrs. John Craig
Miss Mary Young
Occupation Actress
Years active 1899-1968
Spouse(s) John Dickey Craig[1]
Children Harmon Bushnell Craig (died 1917)
John Richard Craig, Jr.(died 1945)
Relatives Harmon Bushnell Craig (grandson)

Mary Marsden Young (June 21, 1879 – June 23, 1971)[2][3] was an American stage and film actress whose career spanned the first sixty years of the 20th century. She started her career in the theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television.

On stage she scored a memorable hit in 1913 playing opposite John Barrymore in the stage version of Believe Me Xantippe. Her first Broadway credit was in 1899. She was approaching sixty in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. Her last television appearance was in a 1968 episode of Gomer Pyle.[citation needed]

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Family[edit]
She and her husband, actor John Craig(1868-1931)[4][5] had two children, the eldest of whom, Harmon Bushnell Craig, was killed at 22 while serving in World War I.[6] Their other son John Craig Jr. died in Los Angeles in 1945.

Death[edit]
Young died at La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1971, aged 92.[7]

Selected filmography[edit]
This Is My Affair (1937) - Dowager
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - Betsy Ann's Mother (uncredited)
The Women (1939) - Grandma (uncredited)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Auntie Maude (uncredited)
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) - Old Lady (uncredited)
Blondie for Victory (1942) - Mrs. Webster, Housewife of America (uncredited)
The Navy Comes Through (1942) - Mrs. Duttson (uncredited)
Watch on the Rhine (1943) - Mrs. Mellie Sewell
Address Unknown (1944) - Mrs. Delaney
Casanova Brown (1944) - Mrs. Dean (uncredited)
The Lost Weekend (1945) - Mrs. Deveridge
The Stork Club (1945) - Mrs. Edith Bates
Shock (1946) - Mrs. Penny (uncredited)
To Each His Own (1946) - Mrs. Nix
The Bride Wore Boots (1946) - Janet Doughton
Temptation (1946) - Mrs. McCormick (uncredited)
Blondie's Holiday (1947) - Mrs. Breckenbridge
A Likely Story (1947) - Little Old Lady
A Double Life (1947) - Actress in 'A Gentleman's Gentleman'
Song of Surrender (1949) - Miss Rivercomb (uncredited)
One Too Many (1950) - Mrs. Sullivan
The Mating Season (1951) - Spinster
The Fat Man (1951) - Saleswoman (uncredited)
An American in Paris (1951) - Flower Lady (uncredited)
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951) - Mrs. Reed, Tourist Stop Manager
Walk East on Beacon (1952) - Old Lady (uncredited)
It Should Happen to You (1954) - Elderly Customer at Macy's (uncredited)
A Star is Born (1954) - Boardinghouse Woman (uncredited)
This Is My Love (1954) - Mrs. Timberly
The Seven Year Itch (1955) - Woman in Train Station (uncredited)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Extra (uncredited)
Official Detective "The Silk Stocking Gang" (1958) - Mrs. Claudia Montgomery
Alias Jesse James (1959) - 'Ma' James
Blue Denim (1959) - Aunt Bidda
The Trouble with Angels (1966) - Mrs. Eldridge
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - Mrs. Galbrace (uncredited)
See also[edit]
List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners

References[edit]
Jump up ^ John Craig, actor, ; findagrave.com
Jump up ^ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edit. c. 2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
Jump up ^ Mary Marsden Young Craig; findagrave.com
Jump up ^ Legendary Locals of Boston's South End, page 57, by Hope J. Shannon c.2014 ISBN 978-1-4671-0112-7 Retrieved June 30, 2017
Jump up ^ National Magazine: An Illustrated American Monthly, Volume 36 April 1912-September 1912 by Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple
Jump up ^ Goldsmith, Louie. "The Sagamore - "Serve my country to the last stitch": Honoring alumni lost in World War 1". thesagonline.com.
Jump up ^ Evelyn Mack Truitt, Who Was Who On Screen 2nd edit. p. 503, c. 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Young_(actress) I.S. 1/11/2018

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