Mariette Hartley

Mariette Hartley
Hartley with Raymond Burr in Kingston: Confidential (1977)
Born Mary Loretta Hartley
(1940-06-21) June 21, 1940
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation Actress
Years active 1962–present
Spouse(s)
John Seventa
(m. 1960; div. 1962)

Patrick Boyriven
(m. 1978; div. 1996)

Jerry Sroka
(m. 2005)
Children 2

Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American character actress.

Personal life

Hartley was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary "Polly" Ickes (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive.[1] Her maternal grandfather was John B. Watson, an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Hartley has a younger brother, Paul, who is a writer (The Seventh Tool) and research philosopher.

In 1960, Hartley married John Seventa, but they divorced two years later. A second marriage to Patrick Boyriven on August 13, 1978, produced two children, Sean (born 1975) and Justine (born 1978).[2] Hartley and Boyriven divorced in 1996 and Hartley married Jerry Sroka in 2005.[3]

Hartley is a 1965 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (at the time, Carnegie Institute of Technology and Mellon Institute).[4]

In her 1990 autobiography Breaking the Silence, written with Anne Commire, Hartley talked about her struggles with psychological problems, pointing directly to Watson’s practical application of his theories as the source of the dysfunction in his family. She has also spoken in public about her experience with bipolar disorder and was a founder of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.[5]

In 2009, Hartley spoke at a suicide and violence prevention forum about her father's suicide.[6]

Career

Hartley began her career as an eight year old in the White Barn Theater in Westport, Connecticut. In her teens as a stage actress, she was coached and mentored by Eva Le Gallienne. Her film career began with Ride the High Country (1962), a Western starring Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, and directed by Sam Peckinpah. In 1962, she appeared in an episode of CBS's Gunsmoke as a mountain girl. In 1963, she starred in the leading role in Drums of Africa with Frankie Avalon, Lloyd Bochner, and Torin Thatcher, directed by James B. Clark. She was cast in an episode of the Jack Lord adventure/drama series about the rodeo circuit, Stoney Burke. Hartley had a supporting role as Susan Clabon in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie in 1964.

In the 1963–1964 television season, she appeared in an episode of ABC’s drama about college life, Channing and in two episodes of NBC's The Virginian. In 1963, she was cast as the character Hagar in "The Day of the Misfits" of the ABC Western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, starring child actor Kurt Russell in the title role.

In 1965, Hartley was cast as a Mormon "hand-cart" pioneer, Jessica Scott, who with her husband searches for their lost boy taken by Indians while they are en route to Utah, in the episode "The Red Shawl" of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days, then hosted by Ronald W. Reagan. The boy was wrapped in the shawl when he went missing.[7] Also 1967 "Death Valley Days" in Lost Sheep in Trinidad as Sister Blandia

In 1966, Hartley appeared as Polly Dockery in the series finale, "A Burying for Rosey", of ABC's The Legend of Jesse James. She also made three guest appearances on NBC's Bonanza, one in 1965 ("Right Is the Fourth R"), another one in 1968 (“The Survivors”), and the last one in 1970 (“Is There any Man Here?”) and ("The Iron Butterfly").

With Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1962)

She worked with Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry, two creators of television science fiction. In 1963, she appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone ("The Long Morrow"). She played the character Ellie in episode 118 (1964) of Gunsmoke. She appeared in two episodes of the NBC series Daniel Boone, "Valley of the Sun" in 1968 and as a nun in "An Angel Cried" in 1970. In 1969, she appeared in the penultimate episode of NBC's Star Trek, "All Our Yesterdays,"[8] as Zarabeth. She appeared in several science fiction films, Marooned (1969), Earth II (1971), and the pilot for the postapocalyptic Genesis II (1973), another Roddenberry production.

Her later film roles included two Lee Van Cleef Westerns, Barquero (1970) and The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972). She also appeared in The Return of Count Yorga (1971), Skyjacked (1972), Improper Channels (1981), O'Hara's Wife (1982) opposite Ed Asner, 1969 (1988), Encino Man (1992), and Novel Romance (2006).

On television, she portrayed Dr. Claire Morton on the primetime adaption of ABC's Peyton Place. In 1971, Hartley had a guest appearance with Glenn Corbett on the Gunsmoke episode "Phoenix". In 1973, she appeared as divorcee Marilyn Dietz on The Bob Newhart Show, and in Disney's The Mystery in Dracula's Castle. In 1974, she guest-starred in the "Moran's the Man" episode of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. She also guest-starred in the "Zero" episode of Emergency!. In 1975, she appeared on McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver, titled "Lady on the Run." In 1976, she played a widow on Little House on the Prairie episode 43, "For My Lady". In 1978, she appeared in the television series Logan’s Run (based on the film of the same name) and in CBS's The Incredible Hulk in two episodes. As Dr. Carolyn Fields, she marries Bill Bixby's character, the alter ego of the Hulk; for her performance, Hartley won an Emmy Award. In 1979, she appeared in an episode of The Rockford Files titled "Paradise Cove" (season 6, episode 1, number 112 in the series, first aired September 28, 1979) as Althea Morgan, the court-appointed receiver.

Hartley appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H as Dr. Inga Halvorsen ("Inga"). She also co-starred with Bixby in the 1983 situation comedy Goodnight, Beantown. She appeared in two episodes of the NBC mystery series Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective. One was "Try and Catch Me" with Ruth Gordon, the other "Publish or Perish" with Jack Cassidy. In 1979, she portrayed the Witch in ABC's holiday telefilm The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, or The Night Dracula Saved The World. In 1986, she co-starred with Lynn Redgrave in the made-for-TV movie My Two Loves.

In the 1990s, she toured with Elliott Gould and Doug Wert in the revival of the mystery Deathtrap. She has hosted the long-running television documentary series Wild About Animals, an educational program. In 2005, she appeared in the NCIS episode, "SWAK". In 2006, Hartley starred in her own one-woman show, If You Get to Bethlehem, You've Gone Too Far, which ran in Los Angeles.

She played Dorothy Spiller, the mother of Courteney Cox's character on Dirt and is featured as Ceptembre Sage Weller in Shhh ..., a spoof based on The Secret. She had a recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lorna Scarry.

In 2014, she returned to the stage as Eleanor of Aquitaine with Ian Buchanan's Henry in the Colony Theater Company production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter.

In January 2018, Hartley began a recurring role on the Fox first responder drama 9-1-1 as Patricia Clark, the Alzheimer's-afflicted mother of dispatcher Abby Clark (Connie Britton).

Advertising

During the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, Hartley appeared with James Garner in a popular series of television commercials advertising Polaroid cameras. The two actors had such amazing on-screen chemistry that many viewers erroneously believed that they were married in real life. Hartley's biography indicates that she began to wear a T-shirt printed with the phrase "I am not Mrs. James Garner."[9] (Hartley went as far to have a shirt made for her infant son, reading "I am not James Garner's Child" and even one for her then-husband: "I am not James Garner!") Hartley guest-starred in a memorable episode of Garner's television series The Rockford Files around this time. The script required the two to kiss at one point and unknown to them, a paparazzo was photographing the scene from a distance. The photos were run in a tabloid trying to provoke a scandal, causing a good deal of attention. An article that ran in TV Guide was titled: "That woman is not James Garner’s wife!"

Between 2001 and 2006, Hartley endorsed the See Clearly Method, a commercial eye exercise program, whose sales an Iowa court halted after a finding of fraudulent business practices and advertising.[10][11]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ "Mariette Hartley Biography (1940-)". Film Reference Library. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  2. ↑ Klein, Alvin (February 6, 1994). "A Bittersweet Homecoming for Mariette Hartley". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ "It Didn't Happen in 60 Seconds, but Her Ads with Jim Garner Developed Mariette Hartley's Career". People. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Carnegie Mellon Alumni" (PDF). www.alumni.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Leadership". 2013 Annual Report. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. pp. 40–41. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Retrieved from "Suicide and Violence Prevention: Creating a Safer Community". Santa Barbara Therapy. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2016. .
  7. ↑ ""The Red Shawl" on Death Valley Days"". Internet Movie Data Base. December 30, 1965. Retrieved May 16, 2015. In 1968, Hartley appeared in Death Valley Days "Dress for a Desert Girl".
  8. ↑ "Mariette Hartley Cherishes 'All Our Yesterdays'". StarTrek.com. November 2, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  9. ↑ Hartley, Mariette, and Anne Commire. Breaking the Silence. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, p. 185.
  10. ↑ Shin, Annys; Mui, Ylan Q. & Trejos, Nancy (November 6, 2006). "Seeing the See Clearly Method for What It Is". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 10 November 2006. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
  11. ↑ Richards, David (August 2008). "See Clearly Method Investigation". Independent Investigations Group. Retrieved 2009-05-29.

Further reading

  • Hartley, Mariette; Commire, Anne. Breaking the Silence, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. ISBN 0-399-13583-9.
  • Official website
  • Mariette Hartley on IMDb
  • Morgan, John; Shoop, Stephen A. (1 August 2003). "Mariette Hartley triumphs over bipolar disorder". USA Today.
  • "Mariette Hartley's autobiography and John B. Watson" — article about the children of psychologists Watson and B. F. Skinner
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