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Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress.

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Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she was born to to Joseph and Mildred Marion Dawes Natwick. She graduated from the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. After graduating from Bennett College with a degree in theater arts, Mildred Natwick toured with a number of stage productions before her first Broadway production, Carry Nation. She began performing at age 21 with the Vagabonds, a nonprofessional group in Baltimore. She soon joined the celebrated University Players on Cape Cod, Mass.. Throughout the 1930s she starred in a number of plays, frequently collaborating with friend and actor-director-playwright Joshua Logan. On Broadway, she played the role of Prossy in theatrical actress Katharine Cornell`s production of Candida. Natwick made her film debut in John Ford`s The Long Voyage Home as a cockney prostitute, and she movingly portrayed the landlady in The Enchanted Cottage (1945). Natwick is remembered for small but memorable roles in several John Ford classics, including 3 Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1948), and The Quiet Man (1952), as the sheltered widow Mrs. Tillane. The character actress was often given one-scene parts or shallow roles which she transcended with her personality and talent, such as her role as a birth control advocate in the comedy Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), recluse widow Mrs. Ivy Gravely in Alfred Hitchcock`s The Trouble with Harry (1955), and a sorceress in The Court Jester (1956). Natwick continued to appear on the stage, and made regular guest appearances in television series. She was twice nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, and in 1972 for the musical 70 Girls 70. She returned to film with Barefoot in the Park (1967) as Jane Fonda`s mother. The role earned Natwick her first and only Academy Award nomination. Her final role was in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons. Natwick died of cancer at age 89 in New York City.

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