Mary Brian

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-02-17 (96 years old)

Deathday

2002-12-30

Place of Birth

Corsicana, Texas, USA

Mary Brian

Biography

Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002), was an American actress, who made the transition from silent films to sound films. Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." After her showing in a beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed close for the rest of their lives. Ralston described both Bronson and Brian as 'very charming people'. The studio, who created her stage name for the mo...

Acting

1935

Charlie Chan in Paris

as Yvette Lamartine

1936

1929

The Virginian

as Molly Stark Wood

1931

The Front Page

as Peggy Grant

1932

Blessed Event

as Gladys Price

1927

Man Power

as Alice Stoddard

1927

1927

Two Flaming Youths

as Mary Gilfoil

1932

The Unwritten Law

as Ruth Evans

1935

Man on the Flying Trapeze

as Hope Wolfinger

1930

1931

1929

The Man I Love

as Celia Fields

1933

1933

The World Gone Mad

as Diane Cromwell

1930

1932

Manhattan Tower

as Mary Harper

1933

Hard to Handle

as Ruth Waters

1929

The Marriage Playground

as Judith Wheater

1933

One Year Later

as Molly Collins

1934

Monte Carlo Nights

as Mary Vernon

1930

Only the Brave

as Barbara Calhoun

1942

Jealous

as dancer

1930

Only Saps Work

as Barbara Tanner

1933

Girl Missing

as June Dale

1926

Beau Geste

as Isabel Rivers

1932

It's Tough to Be Famous

as Janet Porter McClenahan

1943

Calaboose

as Doris Lane

1937

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

as Frances 'Frankie' Ricks

1937

Navy Blues

as Doris Kimbell

1936

Three Married Men

as Jennie Mullins

1931

The Runaround

as Evelyn

1931

Captain Applejack

as Poppy Faire

1936

Spendthrift

as Sally Barnaby

1928

Varsity

as Fay

1926

Brown of Harvard

as Mary Abbot

1930

Burning Up

as Ruth Morgan

1928

Forgotten Faces

as Alice Deane

1930

The Social Lion

as Cynthia Brown

1928

Partners in Crime

as Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl

1928

Harold Teen

as Lillums Lovewell

1925

1924

Peter Pan

as Wendy Darling

1926

Paris at Midnight

as Victorine Tallefer

1926

Behind the Front

as Betty Bartlett-Cooper

1929

The River of Romance

as Lucy Jeffers

1930

The Kibitzer

as Josie Lazarus

1925

The Air Mail

as Minnie Wade

1925

The Little French Girl

as Alix Vervier

1934

Ever Since Eve

as Elizabeth Vandergrift

1933

Song of the Eagle

as Elsa Kranzmeyer

1941

I Was a Criminal

as Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife

1926

More Pay - Less Work

as Betty Ricks

1930

Paramount on Parade

as Sweetheart (Dream Girl)

1931

Gun Smoke

as Sue Vancey

1929

Black Waters

as Eunice

1927

Running Wild

as Elizabeth Finch

1934

College Rhythm

as Gloria Van Dayham

1947

Dragnet

as Anne Hogan

1926

Stepping Along

as Molly Taylor

1925

1933

Fog

as Mary Fulton

1928

The Big Killing

as Mary Beagle - Old Man Beagle's Daughter

1927

Knockout Reilly

as Mary Malone

1926

The Enchanted Hill

as Hallie Purdy

1936

Killer at Large

as Linda Allen

1936

1928

Under the Tonto Rim

as Lucy Watson

1936

Two's Company

as Julia Madison

1928

Someone to Love

as Joan Kendricks

2024

Noisy Silencers

as (archive footage)

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