Biography
Mary Nash (born Mary Honora Ryan) was a noted American stage and screen actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
as Mrs. Muller
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists,...

Swell Guy
1946
as Sarah Duncan
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
as The Duenna
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...

Yolanda and the Thief
1945
as Duenna
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to he...

In the Meantime, Darling
1944
as Mrs. Vera Preston
A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways...

Cobra Woman
1944
as Queen
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

The Lady and the Monster
1944
as Mrs. Fame
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

The Human Comedy
1943
as Miss Hicks
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to w...

Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942
as Emma Hope
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Men of Boys Town
1941
as Mrs. Maitland
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

The Philadelphia Story
1940
as Margaret Lord
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Gold Rush Maisie
1940
as Sarah Davis
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously...

Sailor's Lady
1940
as Miss Purvis
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci...

Charlie Chan in Panama
1940
as Miss Sarah Finch
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet ...

The Rains Came
1939
as Miss Mac Daid
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken art...

The Little Princess
1939
as Amanda Minchin
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Wells Fargo
1937
as Mrs. Pryor
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...

Heidi
1937
as Fraulein Rottenmeier
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Krame...

Easy Living
1937
as Mrs. Jenny Ball
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out ...

The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
as Duchess Anna of Elberfield
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

Come and Get It
1936
as Emma Louise Glasgow
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

College Scandal
1935
as Mrs. Fresnel
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students...

Arms and the Woman
1916
as Rozika
Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young C...