Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. She is perhaps best remembered as the flighty mother of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, released in 1936.
Brady was born in New York City as Mary Rose Brady, and was interested at an early age in becoming an actress. He...
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Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. She is perhaps best remembered as the flighty mother of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, released in 1936.
Brady was born in New York City as Mary Rose Brady, and was interested at an early age in becoming an actress. Her father, William A. Brady, was an important theatrical producer, and her mother was Rose Marie Rene who died in 1896 when little Alice was four. Alice got her first job on Broadway in 1911 at the age of 18, in a show her father was associated with. She continued to perform there (often in shows her father produced) consistently for the next 22 years. In 1931 she appeared in the premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Her step mother was the Broadway star Grace George(1879-1961) whom her father married when Alice was a child....
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