Mary MacLaren

Highest Rated: 100% In Name Only (1939)

Lowest Rated: 80% Hands Across the Table (1935)

Birthday: Jan 19, 1896

Birthplace: Not Available

The sister of silent screen star Katherine MacDonald and a former photographer's model, blonde Mary MacLaren had danced in the Broadway revue The Passing Show of 1914 before making her screen debut in 1916. A favorite of pioneering woman director Lois Weber, MacLaren starred as the poor working girl in Shoes (1916) and was Marie Walcamp's maid in the anti-abortion drama Where Are My Children (1916). For another early woman director, Ida May Park, MacLaren played an actress betrayed by a Broadway wolf and reduced to living in squalor in the evocative Bread (1918) and she was a regal Anne of Austria in Fairbanks' The Three Musketeers (1921). Like most of her contemporaries, MacLaren's career waned in the 1920s and she was reduced to minor roles after the changeover to sound. After playing scores of maids, nurses and dowagers, MacLaren left films around 1948 to travel with her husband, a British military officer. Sadly, when she resurfaced in the 1970s, a newspaper reporter discovered her living in abject poverty in her once palatial Hollywood home. MacLaren's tragic story was widely reported and in her final years she became a popular guest at various silent screen revivals.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

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RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Dream Girl	Judge Allerton's wife	—	1948
No Score Yet	Lady in the Dark	Model	—	1944
90%	The Leopard Man	Nun	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Saint in Palm Springs	Woman	—	1941
No Score Yet	Prairie Pioneers	Martha Nelson	—	1941
No Score Yet	Misbehaving Husbands	Gossiping Friend	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Fargo Kid	Sarah	—	1940
No Score Yet	Doctor Kildare Goes Home	Crying Woman	—	1940
No Score Yet	'Til We Meet Again	Woman	—	1940
100%	In Name Only	Nurse	—	1939
83%	Union Pacific	Official's Wife	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Duke of West Point	Nurse	—	1938
94%	A Day at the Races	Nurse	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Big Broadcast of 1938	Woman	—	1937
No Score Yet	A Lawman Is Born	Martha Lance	—	1937
No Score Yet	Theodora Goes Wild	Mrs. Wilson	—	1936
No Score Yet	King of the Pecos	Mrs. Clayborn	—	1936
80%	Hands Across the Table	Chambermaid	—	1935
No Score Yet	The New Frontier	Mrs. Shaw	—	1935
No Score Yet	Westward Ho	Hannah Wyatt	—	1935
No Score Yet	Harmony Lane	Mrs. Wade	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Key	Streetwalker	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Life of Vergie Winters	Nurse	—	1934
No Score Yet	Headline Shooter	Murderess	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Phantom Broadcast	Beth	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Uninvited Guest	Irene Carlton	—	1924
No Score Yet	Under the Red Robe	Anne of Austria	—	1923
No Score Yet	The Face in the Fog	Mary Dawson	—	1922
No Score Yet	Outcast	Valentine Moreland	—	1922
100%	The Three Musketeers	Anne of Austria	—	1921
No Score Yet	The Wild Goose	Diana Manners	—	1921
No Score Yet	Where Are My Children?	Maid	—	1916
89%	Shoes	Eva Meyer	—	1916

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