Mary Young (actress)

Mary Young
L to R: Mary Young, John Barrymore, Frank Campeau Believe Me, Xantippe a 1913 play
Born Mary Marsden Young
(1879-06-21)June 21, 1879
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died June 23, 1971(1971-06-23) (aged 92)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Other names Mary Marsden Young
Mrs. John Craig
Miss Mary Young
Occupation Actress
Years active 1899-1968
Spouse(s) John Dickey Craig[1]
Children Harmon Bushnell Craig (died 1917)
John Richard Craig Jr.(died 1945)
Relatives Harmon Bushnell Craig (grandson)

Mary Marsden Young (June 21, 1879 – June 23, 1971)[2][3] was an American stage and film actress whose career spanned the first sixty years of the 20th century. She started her career in the theatre and ended playing elderly ladies in film and lastly on television.

On stage she scored a memorable hit in 1913 playing opposite John Barrymore in the stage version of Believe Me Xantippe. Her first Broadway credit was in 1899. She was approaching sixty in 1937 when she made her first Hollywood movie. She made many television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. Her last television appearance was in a 1968 episode of Gomer Pyle.

Family

She and her husband, actor John Craig(1868-1931)[4][5] had two children, the eldest of whom, Harmon Bushnell Craig, was killed at 22 while serving in World War I.[6] Their other son John Craig Jr. died in Los Angeles in 1945.

Death

Young died at La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1971, aged 92.[7]

Selected filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ John Craig, actor, ; findagrave.com
  2. ↑ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edit. c. 2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
  3. ↑ Mary Marsden Young Craig; findagrave.com
  4. ↑ Legendary Locals of Boston's South End, page 57, by Hope J. Shannon c.2014 ISBN 978-1-4671-0112-7 Retrieved June 30, 2017
  5. ↑ National Magazine: An Illustrated American Monthly, Volume 36 April 1912-September 1912 by Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple
  6. ↑ Goldsmith, Louie. "The Sagamore - "Serve my country to the last stitch": Honoring alumni lost in World War 1". thesagonline.com.
  7. ↑ Evelyn Mack Truitt, Who Was Who On Screen 2nd edit. p. 503, c. 1977
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