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Alice Brady

Alice Brady

Highest Rated: 100% Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Lowest Rated: 60% Go West, Young Man (1936)

Birthday: Nov 2, 1892

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Best-known for playing dithery society matrons in 1930s films, this performer actually had a long and varied career. The daughter of famed theatrical producer William A. Brady and stepdaughter of stage great Grace George, Alice Brady rejected a career in grand opera and began acting in stock companies. She first reached Broadway as an ingenue in "The Balkan Princess" (1911) and scored a hit in several Gilbert and Sullivan revivals the following year. Brady varied between light comedy and heavy drama over the next twenty years in shows like "Little Women" (1912, as Meg), "Sinners" (1915), "Anna Ascends" (1920), "Zander the Great" (1923), "The Bride of the Lamb" (1926) and "Love, Honor and Betray" (1930). Perhaps her biggest Broadway hit was as the tragic daughter Lavinia in Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1931).

Highest rated movies

100% Young Mr. Lincoln
100% Gold Diggers of 1935
97% My Man Godfrey
93% The Gay Divorcee
88% 100 Men and a Girl
86% Three Smart Girls
67% In Old Chicago
60% Go West, Young Man

Photos

THE LAND OF HOPE, Alice Brady, 1921 GO WEST YOUNG MAN, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson, 1936 BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD, Jackie Cooper (left), Alice Brady (right), 1933 JOY OF LIVING, Alice Brady, Irene Dunne, 1938 GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935, Alice Brady, Adolphe Menjou, 1935 BETSY ROSS, George MacQuarrie, Alice Brady, 1917 BETSY ROSS, George MacQuarrie, Alice Brady, 1917 GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Cawthorn, Alice Brady, Grant Mitchell, Glenda Farrell, 1935 SHOULD LADIES BEHAVE, from left, Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Katherine Alexander, 1933 BETSY ROSS, Alice Brady, Lillian Cook, 1917 BETSY ROSS, Alice Brady, Lillian Cook, 1917 SHOULD LADIES BEHAVE, from left, Katherine Alexander, Conway Tearle, Mary Carlise, Alice Brady, 1933 WHEN LADIES MEET, Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Alice Brady, Martin Burton, Myrna Loy, 1933 WHEN LADIES MEET, from left: Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, 1933 MY MAN GODFREY, foreground from left: Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Carole Lombard, William Powell, 1936 mymangodfrey1936-fsct04(mymangodfrey1936-fsct04) THREE SMART GIRLS, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Mischa Auer, 1936 MISSING MILLIONS, from left, Alice Brady, David Powell, (as Boston Blackie), 1922 MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, Alice Brady, Charles Ruggles, 1936 MY MAN GODFREY, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, William Powell, James Flavin, 1936 MY MAN GODFREY, Alice Brady, Mischa Auer, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Franklin Pangborn, 1936

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 81% Young Mr. Lincoln Abigail Clay (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 58% Zenobia Mrs. Emily Carter (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 53% Joy of Living Minerva Garret (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call It a Day Muriel West (Character) - 1937
88% 55% 100 Men and a Girl Mrs. Frost (Character) - 1937
67% 53% In Old Chicago Molly O'Leary (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mama Steps Out Ada Cuppy (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Dodd Takes the Air Mme. Sonia Moro (Character) - 1937
60% 17% Go West, Young Man Mrs. Struthers (Character) - 1936
86% 52% Three Smart Girls Mrs. Lyons (Character) - 1936
97% 90% My Man Godfrey Angelica Bullock (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mind Your Own Business Melba Shanks (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Metropolitan Ghita Galin (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 20% Let 'Em Have It Aunt Ethel (Character) - 1935
100% 72% Gold Diggers of 1935 Mrs. Prentiss (Character) - 1935
93% 82% The Gay Divorcee Hortense (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Broadway to Hollywood Lulu Hackett (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stage Mother Katherine `'Kitty'` Lorraine (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beauty for Sale Mrs. Henrietta Sherwood (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Should Ladies Behave? Laura Merrick (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 45% When Ladies Meet Bridget Drake (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marie, Ltd. Drina Hilliard (Character) - 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Indestructible Wife Charlotte Ordway (Character) - 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman and Wife Jane Eyre (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet Betsy Ross Betsy Griscom (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bohemians Mimi (Character) - 1916
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Boss Emily Griswold (Character) - 1915

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Designing Women Unknown (Guest Star) 1991