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American
actress Alice Brady first came to prominence in the silent films produced
by World Studios, which was owned and operated by Brady's father,
the influential theatrical producer William H. Brady. A star from
her first film, As Ye Sow (1914), onward, she was applauded for her
acting skills, though critics at the time noted that her somewhat
offbeat facial features would be better suited to character roles
than to ingenues. Brady devoted the 1920s to motherly and matronly
portrayals on stage - which, as it turned out, were far more rewarding
professionally than the heroines she'd played at World. Making her
talking-picture debut in 1933's When Ladies Meet, Brady rapidly became
one of Hollywood's most prolific portrayers of addlebrained society
matrons and world-weary matriarchs. Her comic skills won her roles
in such classics as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Three Smart Girls, but
it was for her dramatic portrayal of the resilient, much-maligned
Mrs. O'Leary in In Old Chicago (1938) that she won an Academy Award.
Shortly after completing her work on John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln
(1939), Brady passed away at the age of 47. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie
Guide
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