Biography
Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth; and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. W...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Sound of Music
1965
as Mother Abbess
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain wi...
The Story of Ruth
1960
as Naomi
Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow wit...
Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Self (uncredited)
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...
Mr. Lincoln
1952
as Narrator
A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on location in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Dream Girl
1948
as Lucy Allerton
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
Magnificent Doll
1946
as Mrs. Payne
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Ma...
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
as Grace Apley
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
as Olga
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
A Star Is Born
1937
as Miss Phillips
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
Call It a Day
1937
as Ethel Francis
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Jalna
1935
as Meg Whiteoaks
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
The Right to Live
1935
as Nurse Weyland
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
Handy Andy
1934
as Ernestine Yates
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty y...
Wonder of Women
1929
as Brigitte
The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife. This film is believed lost.
Almost a Husband
1919
as Eva McElwyn
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young wh...