Marsha Mason
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Marsha Mason began her career in New York theater, and also got bit parts in films and TV shows. Later she moved to San Francisco, appearing in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives directed by Francis Ford Coppola for the American Conservatory Theater. While in California she got her first substantial screen role, a supporting part in Blume In Love (1973). Meanwhile, her work in repertory caught the attention of director Mark Rydell, who cast her in the lead of his film Cinderella Liberty (1973); she earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a prostitute with a black son. Nevertheless, it was three years berfore her next screen appearance. Mason was again Oscar-nominated for her costarring role in The Goodbye Girl (1977), which increased the regularity of her film work for the next five years but still failed to establish her as a star; moreover, she was twice more nominated for Oscars, bringing her total to four nominations with no victories. Her screen appearances since 1983 have been infrequent, though she continued acting on stage and TV. She married and divorced playwright Neil Simon, who wrote several of the films she appeared in; some critics have suggested that her career suffered because she was overly identified with Simon's work.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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70% | Dark Horse |
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$0.2M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Bereft |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Long Shot: Believe in Courage |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | The Good Doctor |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Restless Spirits |
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— | 1999 |
59% | 2 Days in the Valley |
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— | 1996 |
32% | Nick of Time |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Confianza Perdida |
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— | 1995 |
22% | I Love Trouble |
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— | 1994 |
11% | Drop Dead Fred |
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— | 1991 |
20% | Stella |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | The Image |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Dinner at Eight |
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— | 1989 |
70% | Heartbreak Ridge |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Trapped in Silence |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Surviving |
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— | 1985 |
71% | Max Dugan Returns |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal |
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— | 1982 |
57% | Only When I Laugh |
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— | 1981 |
50% | Chapter Two |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Promises in the Dark |
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— | 1979 |
47% | The Cheap Detective |
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— | 1978 |
84% | The Goodbye Girl |
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— | 1977 |
53% | Audrey Rose |
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— | 1977 |
63% | Cinderella Liberty |
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— | 1973 |
71% | Blume in Love |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Hollywood Collection |
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— | 1971 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
The Middle
2009-2018
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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No Score Yet |
Madam Secretary
2014-2019
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94% |
Man Seeking Woman
2015-2017
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19% |
Lipstick Jungle
2008-2009
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No Score Yet |
Army Wives
2007-2014
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86% |
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King
2006
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79% |
The Education of Max Bickford
2001-2002
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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50% |
Sibs
1992
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Quotes from Marsha Mason's Characters
Drop Dead Fred: | Oh, you wanted me to go away? Fine, just say the magic words & I'll piss off. |
Drop Dead Fred: | Oh, you wanted me to go away? Fine, just say the magic words and I'll piss off. |
Elizabeth Cronin: | Piss off! |
Drop Dead Fred: | Gotcha! You just said the magic words! |
Polly: | What did you just say to me? |
Drop Dead Fred: | She told you to piss off, have you gone deaf? |
Elizabeth Cronin: | I said "Piss off" but I didn't say it to you. |
Elliott Garfield: | I happen to have a lease in my pocket. Are you gonna honor it or what? |
Paula McFadden: | I have a daughter in my bedroom. That tops the lease in your pocket. |
Paula McFadden: | What happened to your eye? |
Elliott Garfield: | I used it to stop a fist from going through my face. |
Paula McFadden: | You were never four-and-a-half, you were born 26. |
Lucy McFadden: | [hears Elliot chanting] What's that? |
Paula McFadden: | Sounds like God. |
Lucy McFadden: | I smell strawberries burning. |
Paula McFadden: | That's incense. |
Lucy McFadden: | What's incense? |
Paula McFadden: | It is what I'm feeling right now. |
Paula McFadden: | I thought you said you were decent. |
Elliott Garfield: | I am decent. I also happen to be naked. |