Brady, Alice

Brady, Alice

▪ American actress
born Nov. 2, 1892, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Oct. 28, 1939, New York City

      American actress whose talents on the stage aided her successful transition from silent movies to talking pictures.

      The daughter of theatrical manager William A. Brady (Brady, William A), Alice was educated in a convent school in Madison, New Jersey, and at the New England Conservatory of Music. She abandoned plans for an operatic career and, over her father's objections, entered the theatre, making her Broadway debut in a minor role in his 1910 production of The Mikado. The next year she appeared under an assumed name in The Balkan Princess, and in 1912, as Alice Brady, she won wide acclaim in Little Women.

      In 1914, after an extensive national tour with DeWolf Hopper's Gilbert and Sullivan opera company, Brady moved to Hollywood and made a series of motion pictures, many for her father's company, including As Ye Sow (1914), The Gilded Cage (1914), La Boheme (1916), Betsy Ross (1917), and Woman and Wife (1918). In 1918 she returned to Broadway in the hit Forever After, and she subsequently enjoyed great successes in Zander the Great (1923), Old Mama (1925), The Bride of the Lamb (1926), Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (1931; with Alla Nazimova), Mademoiselle (1932), and many other plays.

      During the 1930s she returned to the screen to appear successfully in “talkies,” including such films as The Gay Divorcee (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), Three Smart Girls (1937), In Old Chicago (1937; for which she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress), and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Whereas her typical film role was a wealthy, rather flighty society woman, her stage portrayals and her Oscar-winning performance demonstrated her considerable range.

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