Mary Boland (born Marie Anne Boland; January 28, 1882 – June 23, 1965) was an American stage and film actress.

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Monday, July 26, 2021. 8:03. PM.
Mary Boland - Actress. 
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1.Profile :

(Boland in 1940)



Born Marie Anne Boland, January 28, 1882, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died June 23, 1965 (aged 83), New York City, U.S.

Occupation Actress

Years active 1901–1955


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2. Introduction :


Mary Boland (born Marie Anne Boland; January 28, 1882 – June 23, 1965) was an American stage and film actress.

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3. Early years :


Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boland was the daughter of repertory actor William Augustus Boland, and his wife Mary Cecilia Hatton. She had an older sister named Sara. The family later moved to Detroit.

Boland went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Detroit. By the age of fifteen she had left school and was performing on stage.

In 1901, she began acting on stage with a local stock theater company.

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4. Career :


She debuted on Broadway in 1907 in the play The Ranger with Dustin Farnum and had appeared in eleven Broadway productions, notably with John Drew, becoming his "leading lady in New York and on the road." She made her silent film debut for Triangle Studios in 1915. She entertained soldiers in France during World War I then returned to America. After appearing in nine movies, she left filmmaking in 1920, returning to the stage and appearing in several Broadway productions, including The Torch-Bearers (1922). She became famous as a comedian.


Boland's greatest success on the stage in the 1920s was the comedy The Cradle Snatchers (1925–26), in which she, Edna May Oliver, and Margaret Dale, having been abandoned by their husbands, take on young lovers. Roy Liebman notes this play helped establish the persona that was to be associated with her for the rest of her career. Boland's paramour was Humphrey Bogart in one of his first roles. She had previously performed with Bogart in the 1923 comedy Meet the Wife at the Klaw Theatre as Gertrude Lennox.


After an eleven-year absence, in 1931 she returned to Hollywood under contract to Paramount Pictures. She achieved far greater film success with her second try, becoming one of the most popular character actresses of the 1930s, always playing major roles in her films and often starring, notably in a series of comedies opposite Charles Ruggles.


Boland appeared in numerous films, including Ruggles of Red Gap, The Big Broadcast of 1936, Danger - Love at Work, Nothing but Trouble, and Julia Misbehaves. She is likely best remembered for her portrayals of Countess DeLave in The Women (1939) and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1940).


For the remainder of her career, Boland combined films and, later television productions, with appearances on stage, including starring in the 1935 Cole Porter musical Jubilee and appearing in the play "One Fine Day" with Charlie Ruggles in 1948. Her last Broadway appearance was in 1954 at the age of seventy-two. That play, Lullaby, was not a success. Her last acting was done in the 1955 television adaptation of The Women recreating her film role.

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5. Personal life and death :


Boland never married or had children. On June 23, 1965, she died of a heart attack at her home in New York. She was interred in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Vespers in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Boland was a practicing Roman Catholic and a Republican who supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.

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6. Recognition :


For her contribution to the film industry, Boland has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard.

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7. Filmography :


7.1. Silent :

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The Edge of the Abyss (1915) - Alma Clayton

The Price of Happiness (1916) - Bertha Miller

The Stepping Stone (1916) - Mary Beresford

Mountain Dew (1917) - Lily Bud Raines

A Woman's Experience (1918, Extant; Library of Congress) - Agnes Roydant

The Prodigal Wife (1918) - Marion Farnham

The Perfect Lover (1919) - Mrs. Whitney

His Temporary Wife (1920) - Verna Devore

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7.2. Sound :


Secrets of a Secretary (1931) - Mrs. Merritt

Personal Maid (1931) - Mrs. Otis Gary

The Night of June 13 (1932) - Mazie Strawn

Evenings for Sale (1932) - Jenny Kent

If I Had a Million (1932) - Mrs. Peabody

Mama Loves Papa (1933) - Jessie Todd

Three-Cornered Moon (1933) - Mrs. Nellie Rimplegar

The Solitaire Man (1933) - Mrs. Hopkins


Four Frightened People (1934) - Mrs. Mardick

Six of a Kind (1934) - Flora Whinney

Melody in Spring (1934) - Mary Blodgett

Stingaree (1934) - Mrs. Clarkson

Here Comes the Groom (1934) - Mrs. Widden

Down to Their Last Yacht (1934) - Queen of Malakamokalu, 'Queenie'

The Pursuit of Happiness (1934) - Comfort Kirkland


Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) - Effie Floud

People Will Talk (1935) - Clarice Wilton

Two for Tonight (1935) - Mrs. Smythe

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935) - Mrs. Sealingsworth


Early to Bed (1936) - Tessie Weeks

A Son Comes Home (1936) - Mary Grady

Wives Never Know (1936) - Marcia Bigelow

College Holiday (1936) - Carola P. Gaye


Marry the Girl (1937) - Ollie Radway

Danger – Love at Work (1937) - Mrs. Alice Pemberton

There Goes the Groom (1937) - Mrs. Russell

Mama Runs Wild (1937) - Alice Summers

Little Tough Guys in Society (1938) - Mrs. Berry

Artists and Models Abroad (1938) - Mrs. Isabel Channing


Boy Trouble (1939) - Sybil Fitch

The Magnificent Fraud (1939) - Mme. Geraldine Genet

Night Work (1939) - Sybil Fitch

The Women (1939) - The Countess De Lave - Flora


He Married His Wife (1940) - Ethel

New Moon (1940) - Valerie de Rossac

Pride and Prejudice (1940) - Mrs. Bennet

Hit Parade of 1941 (1940) - Emily Potter

One Night in the Tropics (1940) - Aunt Kitty Marblehead

In Our Time (1944) - Mrs. Bromley

Nothing but Trouble (1944) - Mrs. Hawkley

Forever Yours (1945) - Aunt Mary

Julia Misbehaves (1948) - Ma Ghenoccio

Guilty Bystander (1950) - Smitty

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