18-502: Edward Langford was an actor in American films and theater productions. He was paired in films with Alice Brady . In the 1910s, Langford acted with a company headed by Eleanor Gordon. Alice Brady Alice Brady (born Mary Rose Brady ; November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created
36-642: A fictionalized version of Catherine O'Leary – in 1937's In Old Chicago , Brady won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . She had been nominated for the same award the year before as well, for her work in My Man Godfrey . A long-enduring myth states that at the Academy Awards presentation dinner, Brady's Oscar Award, a plaque (statuettes were not awarded for the Supporting categories until 1943)
54-521: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . In 1960, Brady received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Her star is located at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard . Mary Rose Brady was born in New York City. Her father, William A. Brady , was an important theatrical producer. Her mother, French actress Rose Marie Rene, died in 1896. She
72-534: The O'Leary family's barn at 137 DeKoven Street . Due to a high wind and dry conditions, it spread to burn a large percentage of the city, an event known as the Great Chicago Fire. After the Great Fire, Chicago Republican (now defunct) reporter Michael Ahern published a claim that the fire had started when a cow kicked over a lantern while it was being milked. The owner was not named, but Catherine O'Leary soon
90-530: The O'Learys. Other rumors insisted that Daniel Sullivan had started the fire, or that perhaps it was Louis M. Cohn , who claimed to have been gambling in the barn with the O'Learys' son and others. One of the O'Learys' sons, James Patrick O'Leary , who was two years old at the time of the fire, did go on to become a well-known gambling boss and saloon owner in Chicago. Catherine O'Leary died on July 3, 1895, of acute pneumonia at her home at 5133 Halsted Street , and
108-536: The ceremony and returned them to the Academy to have them engraved afterward. In 2016, the Oscar historian Olivia Rutigliano noted that Miss Brady also followed this practice, which may have led to the story that the Academy was presenting her with a replacement trophy. A sample of her more than 80 films includes: Silent Sound Catherine O%27Leary Catherine O'Leary (née Donegan ; March 1827 – July 3, 1895)
126-447: The fire. Anti-Irish attitudes at the time encouraged making scapegoats of the O'Leary family. It was claimed that the alleged accident happened because she was drunk or that she had hidden the evidence of her guilt. Neighbors were reported to have claimed that they saw broken glass from the lamp, though all these "reports" were unverified. One man claimed he had found the damaged lamp, but it had been stolen by another Irishman to protect
144-511: The next 10 years, all while continuing to perform on stage, the film industry at the time being centered in New York. In 1923, she stopped appearing in films to concentrate on stage acting, and did not appear on the screen again until 1933, when she made the move to Hollywood and M-G-M 's When Ladies Meet become her first talking picture . From then on she worked frequently until her death, making another 25 films in seven years. Her final film
162-577: The next 22 years. In 1931 she appeared in the premiere of Eugene O'Neill 's Mourning Becomes Electra . Her step-mother was actress Grace George , whom her father married when Alice was a child. Her half-brother was William A. Brady Jr, the son of her father and Grace George. Brady's father moved into movie production and presentation in 1913, with his World Film Company , and Brady soon followed along after him, making her first silent feature appearance in As Ye Sow in 1914. She appeared in 53 films in
180-470: The original Broadway and national touring productions of Marian de Forest 's Little Women ; a play adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott . In 1913, Brady appeared with John Barrymore in A Thief for a Night (adapted by P. G. Wodehouse and playwright John Stapleton from Wodehouse's novel, A Gentleman of Leisure ) at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago. She continued to perform on Broadway (often in shows her father produced) consistently for
198-454: The role of Meg March in the original production of Marian de Forest 's Little Women . As a screen actress she first appeared in silent films and was one of the few actresses to survive the transition into talkies . She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard 's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won
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#1732852540346216-517: Was Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Brady was married to actor James Crane from 1919 to 1922, when they divorced. They co-starred in three silent films together: His Bridal Night (1919), Sinners (1920) and A Dark Lantern (1920). The couple had one child, Donald. Brady died from cancer on October 28, 1939, five days before her 47th birthday. She is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York. For her portrayal of Mrs. Molly O'Leary –
234-510: Was an Irish immigrant living in Chicago , Illinois, who became famous when it was alleged that an accident involving her cow had started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Born Catherine Donegan, she and her husband, Patrick O'Leary, had three children. Their son, James Patrick O'Leary , later ran a well-known Chicago saloon and gambling hall. On the evening of October 8, 1871, a fire consumed
252-555: Was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery . In the PBS documentary Chicago: City of the Century , a descendant of O'Leary's stated that she spent the rest of her life in the public eye, and she constantly was blamed for starting the fire. Overcome with much sadness and regret, she "died heartbroken". The last remaining immediate relative of Catherine O'Leary died in 1936. Amateur historian Richard Bales gathered sufficient evidence on Sullivan to convince
270-412: Was identified, because the fire had begun in her family's barn. Illustrations and caricatures soon appeared depicting Mrs. O'Leary with her cow. The idea captured the popular imagination and still is circulated widely today. However, in 1893 Ahern finally admitted he had made up the story. The official report simply states: "Whether it originated from a spark blown from a chimney on that windy night, or
288-469: Was interested at an early age in becoming an actress. She first went on the stage when she was 14 and got her first job on Broadway in 1911 at the age of 18, in a show with which her father was associated. Billed as Mary Rose, Brady debuted on stage in 1911 in New Haven in the operetta The Balkan Princess . She had the first major success of her career in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in
306-421: Was set on fire by human agency, we are unable to determine". Mrs. O'Leary testified that she had been in bed when the fire began, and she had no idea what caused it. Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan, the first person to raise the alarm, said that on seeing the barn on fire, he ran to free the animals, which included a cow owned by Sullivan's mother. He then informed the O'Learys, who were in their home and were unaware of
324-460: Was stolen by a man who came onstage to accept the award on the absent actress's behalf and that it was never recovered, and the impostor was never tracked down. The Academy then issued a replacement plaque which was later presented to Brady. However, according to press at the time the film's director, Henry King, accepted on her behalf at the ceremony and friends of Ms. Brady delivered it to her home later that night. Winners were given blank awards at
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