Mary Boland

Mary Boland was born on Jan 28, 1882 in USA. Mary Boland's big-screen debut came with The Price of Happiness directed by Edmund Lawrence in 1916. Mary Boland is known for Pride and Prejudice directed by Robert Z. Leonard, Greer Garson stars as Elizabeth Bennet and Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. The most recent award Mary Boland achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Mary Boland plays is Guilty Bystander which will be released on Apr 21, 1950.

Lively, buxom character actress Mary Boland made a name for herself playing vacuous or pixilated motherly types during the 1930s. One of her most memorable performances was as the addle-brained Mrs. Rimplegar of La lune à trois coins (1933), who gives away her family fortune to a swindler because he seemed like 'such a nice young man'. She also made a series of popular homespun comedies under contract to Paramount, in which she co-starred opposite Charles Ruggles. She was notable as a social snob in L'extravagant Mr Ruggles (1935), the oversexed and alcoholic Countess DeLave in Femmes (1939) and as Mrs. Bennet in MGM's classic Orgueil et préjugés (1940). For all her scatty or matronly character roles in the movies, Mary Boland had once been a star comedienne on Broadway.Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of traveling actor William A. Boland (who happened to be on tour at her birth), she was educated at Sacred Heart Convent in Detroit. At 25, Mary appeared in her first play, 'Strongheart', and was on Broadway two years later in 'The Ranger', with Dustin Farnum. She started in silent films in 1915, her debut being Thomas H. Ince's 'The Edge of the Abyss'. After a wartime interval, entertaining troops on the Western Front during World War I, she made a return to the stage and had notable successes with the comedies 'Clarence' (1919-20,with Alfred Lunt) as Mrs.Wheeler, 'Meet the Wife' (1923-24,with a young Humphrey Bogart) and 'Cradle Snatchers' (1925-26), starring as Susan Martin. These performances established her as one of theaters foremost comediennes, ideally cast as dithery wives and mothers, or social climbers.Mary's film career ended in 1950 and she appeared in her last play, 'Lullaby', in 1954. She retired to live out the rest of her days in her suite at the Essex House in New York.