Mary Nash(1884-1976)

Veteran stage character actress who came to Hollywood and settled in 1934, best known as Kate Hepburn's socialite mom in Scandalo a Filadelfia (1940) and Shirley Temple's cruel nemesis in both Zoccoletti olandesi (1937) and La piccola principessa (1939)."

[on her role as Anna Valeska in the play Captain Applejack] You don't know what fun it is. It feels, every night, as if I were stepping forth to a party. All the sobbing and gnashing of teeth that I have been doing had almost worn me out, and this part came along like a gust of wind that could blow you away if you'd let it, but it is very refreshing, just the same. It is perfectly true that emotional roles do exhaust you. I used to leave the theater tired to death. I don't know what fatigue means in this part.