Mildred Natwick
37 movies · 20 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 19, 1905
- Died
- Oct 25, 1994 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biography
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).
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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.
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Mildred Natwick: movies and TV shows
Acting (57)
- 1988 Dangerous Liaisons
as Madame de Rosemonde
- 1987 Deadly Deception
as Sarah Cleason
- 1984
- 1982 Kiss Me Goodbye
as Mrs. Reilly
- 1982 Maid in America
as Mrs. Angstrom
- 1980
- 1979
- 1979 You Can't Take it With You
as Grand Duchess Olga Katrina
- 1977
- 1976
- 1976 Addie and the King of Hearts
as Grandma Mills
- 1975 The Easter Promise
as Grandma Mills
- 1975 At Long Last Love
as Mabel Pritchard
- 1974 Daisy Miller
as Mrs. Costello
- 1973
- 1973 The Thanksgiving Treasure
as Grandma Mills
- 1973 Money to Burn
as Emily Finnegan
- 1973
- 1972 The Female Instinct
as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson
- 1972 The House Without a Christmas Tree
as Grandma Mills
- 1972
- 1971 Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
as Shelby Saunders
- 1969 The Maltese Bippy
as Molly Fletcher
- 1969 Trilogy
as Miss Miller
- 1969
- 1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Jenny Grant
- 1967 Barefoot in the Park
as Ethel Banks
- 1963
- 1962 Arsenic & Old Lace
as Martha Brewster
- 1959
- 1958
- 1957 Tammy and the Bachelor
as Aunt Renie
- 1956 Eloise
as Nanny
- 1956 Teenage Rebel
as Grace Hewitt
- 1956 Blithe Spirit
as Madame Arcati
- 1955 The Court Jester
as Griselda
- 1955
- 1955 The Trouble with Harry
as Miss Gravely
- 1955
- 1953
- 1952 Against All Flags
as Molvina MacGregor
- 1952 The Quiet Man
as The Widow Sarah Tillane
- 1951
- 1951
- 1950
- 1950 Cheaper by the Dozen
as Mrs. Mebane
- 1949 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Abby Allshard
- 1949
- 1948 3 Godfathers
as The Mother
- 1948 The Kissing Bandit
as Isabella
- 1948
- 1948
- 1948 A Woman's Vengeance
as Nurse Caroline Braddock
- 1947 The Late George Apley
as Amelia Newcombe
- 1945 Yolanda and the Thief
as Aunt Amarilla
- 1945 The Enchanted Cottage
as Mrs. Abigail Minnett
- 1940 The Long Voyage Home
as Freda
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1949 Lights Out
1 episode