Mildred Natwick

Mildred Natwick was an American film, television and stage actress. Mildred Natwick was born on 19th June 1905 in Baltimore, Maryland, US. Her parents’ names were Joseph Natwick and Mildred Marion Natwick. Ole Natwick, her grandfather, migrated to the US from Norway in the year 1847. Myron ‘Grim’ Natwick, her first cousin, was an animator and cartoonist. She did her schooling from Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore and completed her graduation from Bennett College. In 1926, she started to perform on the stage with a nonprofessional theatre group, The Vagabonds, in Baltimore. Further, she joined the University Players on Cape Cod. In 1932, she made her Broadway debut in the play ‘Carry Nation’ playing the role of Mrs. Noble; the play was about the well-known temperance crusader Carrie Nation. The whole decade she appeared in the numerous plays, on most of the occasion collaborating with Joshua Logan, actor-playwright-director and a friend of her. She also starred in another Broadway production named ‘Candida’. Mildred made her film debut in the year 1940 by appearing in the John Ford’s ‘The Long Voyage Home’. Further, she acted in many John Ford movies like ‘3 Godfathers’ (1948), ‘She Wore a Yellow Ribbon’ (1949) and ‘The Quiet Man’ (1952).

In 1955, she appeared in the role of Miss Ivy Gravely, in Alfred Hitchcock movie ‘The Trouble with Harry’. Natwick has received two Tony Awards nomination for her roles in ‘The Waltz of the Toreadors’ (1957) and ’70 Girls 70’ (1972). After doing theatre and doing guest roles on TV shows, she came back to films in the year 1967 by appearing in the movie ‘Barefoot in the Park’; for the role of mother of Jane Fonda Jane Fonda was born on 21st December, 1937 in New >> Read More... in the movie she received her only nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is famous for her role in the show ‘The House Without a Christmas Tree’; the success of the show resulted in three sequels namely ‘The Thanks giving Treasure’, ‘The Easter Promise’ and ‘The King of Hearts’. For her role in the TV series ‘The Snoop Sisters’ she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. In 1981, she joined Hayes, and both were the members of the Board of Advisors of the Riverside Shakespeare Company; the company supported many fundraisers for the off-Broadway theatre company. She made her last appearance in the film ‘ Dangerous Liaisons Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (1988) at the age of 88. Natwick died due to cancer on 25th October 1994 at her home in Manhattan.