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Mary Nash

Mary Nash

Acting
1884-08-14
Troy, New York, USA

Biography

Mary Nash (born Mary Honora Ryan) was a noted American stage and screen actress.

Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

#1MGM Parade

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10

The original concept of the show was to allow the viewer to see the inner workings of a movie studio and featured interviews with MGM stars and explanations of how movies were made. Later, the format changed to show edited versions of MGM films.

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#2The Philadelphia Story

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Margaret Lord

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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#3Heidi

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Fraulein Rottenmeier

6.9 / 10
DramaFamilyMusic

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

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#4Uncertain Lady

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Edith Hayes

9.0 / 10
Comedy

Elliot's affair prompts his wife Doris to love millionaire Bruce. After a messy gathering, a flat tire stops Doris from chasing Bruce's departing ship, which traps Elliot and Myra on board instead, leaving Bruce free to propose to Doris ashore.

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#5Come and Get It

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Emma Louise Glasgow

6.8 / 10
DramaRomance

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

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#6The Little Princess

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Amanda Minchin

6.7 / 10
FamilyDramaComedy

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

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#7Till the Clouds Roll By

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Muller

5.8 / 10
Music

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

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#8The Rains Came

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Miss Mac Daid

6.1 / 10
DramaRomanceAdventure

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.

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#9Cobra Woman

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Queen

5.4 / 10
AdventureDramaFantasy

A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

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#10Easy Living

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Jenny Ball

7.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

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#11Sailor's Lady

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Miss Purvis

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

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#12The Human Comedy

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Miss Hicks

6.2 / 10
DramaFamily

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

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#13Calling Dr. Gillespie

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Emma Hope

7.0 / 10
DramaThrillerComedy

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

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#14Wells Fargo

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Pryor

5.5 / 10
HistoryWestern

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

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#15Men of Boys Town

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Maitland

6.4 / 10
Drama

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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#16Charlie Chan in Panama

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Miss Sarah Finch

6.8 / 10
CrimeThrillerMystery

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

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#17Gold Rush Maisie

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Sarah Davis

6.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

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#18College Scandal

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Fresnel

6.8 / 10
DramaMysteryCrime

Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.

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#19Yolanda and the Thief

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Duenna

6.0 / 10
MusicRomanceFantasy

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.

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#20The Lady and the Monster

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Fame

6.0 / 10
Sci-FiHorrorThriller

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

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#21The King and the Chorus Girl

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Duchess Anna of Elberfield

6.2 / 10
RomanceComedy

A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

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#22In the Meantime, Darling

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Mrs. Vera Preston

6.8 / 10
ComedyDramaWar

A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.

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#23Monsieur Beaucaire

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as The Duenna

5.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

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#24Arms and the Woman

Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as Rozika

8.8 / 10
Drama

Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young Carl. Rozika marries a chap named Trevor and a predicament ensued after the Great War comes knocking at the door.

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#25Swell Guy

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • as Sarah Duncan

8.0 / 10
Drama

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

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