Birthname: Mildred Natwick
| Sign | Gemini |
| Born |
Jun 19, 1905
Baltimore, MD |
| Died |
Oct 25, 1994
New York City, NY |
| Age | Died at 89 |
| Final Resting Place Lorraine Park Cemetery | |
Mildred Natwick |
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| Job | Actress |
| Years active | 1940—1988 |
| Known for | Bird-like eccentrics |
| Top Roles | Nurse Caroline Braddock, Abby Allshard aka Old Iron Pants, Amelia Newcombe, Grace Hewitt, Freda |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Musical, Film Adaptation, Adventure |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Romance (Comic), Romance (Drama), Based on Play, World War II |
| Top Collaborators | John Ford (Director), John Wayne, Ward Bond, Francis Ford, Arthur Shields, Mae Marsh, Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Jack Pennick |
| Also Born on June 19 | |
| Also Born in 1905 | |
| Also Born in Maryland | |
| Also a Gemini | |
Mildred Natwick Overview:
Legendary character actress, Mildred Natwick, was born on Jun 19, 1905 in Baltimore, MD. Natwick died at the age of 89 on Oct 25, 1994 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Lorraine Park Cemetery in Woodlawn, MD.
MINI BIO:
One look at sharp-faced American actress, Mildred Natwick, and you knew that here was a lady who had a sense of humor but would stand no nonsense. Appearing in character roles on stage from an early age, she usually played bird-like eccentrics in films, but could also be very droll, especially as Jane Fonda's mother in "Barefoot in the Park", the role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.
(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).HONORS and AWARDS:
.Although Natwick was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.
Academy Awards
| Year | Award | Film name | Role | Result |
| 1967 | Best Supporting Actress | Barefoot in the Park (1967) | Mrs. Ethel Banks | Nominated |
Mildred Natwick BlogHub Articles:
Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as The Snoop Sisters
Mildred Natwick and Helen Hayes. Over a decade before Angela Lansbury starred in Murder, She Wrote, Helen Hayes played an elderly mystery author and amateur detective in The Snoop Sisters. The series co-starred Mildred Natwick as Hayes' sister and ran as a 90-minute installment on The NBC Tuesday M... Read full article
The Extraordinary Mildred Natwick
On a Friday earlier this month, with time to spare before a screening of the Jacques Becker heist classic Touchez pas au grisbi at the Pacific Film Archive, we stopped by Rasputin’s, a decades-old Berkeley establishment that deals in new and used records, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays. There I manage... Read full article
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Mildred Natwick Quotes:
Nancy Fallon: Wild!
Grace Hewitt: Try not to show it too much, kids like you to be casual.
Nancy Fallon: Grace, I'll welcome any tip you can give me on how to behave with a teenage daughter.
Grace Hewitt: Well, all I know is anything you do is wrong. If you try to spruce yourself up it's, "Oh Mother, that's too kiddish for you," and if you don't it's, "Mother, do you have to dress like an old bag?"
Nancy Fallon: Oh, you make it sound awful.
Grace Hewitt: They love you. They bully you, but they love you, the little monsters. And if anything goes wrong, they turn back to being 6 or 7 years old and cling to you, and that's heaven.
Yolanda Aquaviva: Oh yes, I do.
Aunt Amarilla: Fine, we must buy a horse.
Aunt Amarilla: Oh, I should like to see that.