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Mary Brian was an American actress who made the transition from silent films to sound films.

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I'll Let The Film Pile Up For You

An Interview With Mary Tomasini

by Rachel Igel

George Tomasini had a varied and fascinating career. He edited nine films for Alfred Hitchcock, including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, North By Northwest (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Psycho and The Birds.

Among his many other credits were Stalag 17, Elephant Walk, The Time Machine, The Misfits, and the original Cape Fear, Mary Brian married George Tomasini in 1947 and they were together until his death in 1964. Mary had a very successful career of her own, appearing on the stage and in a variety of films, including the original versions of Peter Pan (as Wendy), Beau Geste (with Ronald Colman), The Virginian (with Gary Cooper), and The Front Page (with Pat O'Brien), as well as The Royal Family of Broadway (with Fredric March). Mary was one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. I spoke with Mary about her life with George, his career and her own, and the way things

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Mary Brian

For other people with similar names, see Mary Bryan.

American actress

Mary Brian
Brian in 1931
Born	Louise Byrdie Dantzler (1906-02-17)February 17, 1906 Corsicana, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 30, 2002(2002-12-30) (aged 96) Del Mar, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1924–1954
Spouses	Jon Whitcomb (m. 1941; div. 1941) George Tomasini (m. 1947; died 1964)

Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler,^[1] February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress who made the transition from silent films to sound films.^[2]

Early life

Brian was born in Corsicana, Texas,^[3] the daughter of Taurrence J. Dantzler and Louise B. Her brother was Taurrence J. Dantzler, Jr.

Her father died when she was one month old and the family later moved to Dallas, Texas.^[3] In the early 1920s, they moved to Long Beach, California. She had intended to become

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Born Feb 17, 1908 in Corsicana, Texas as Louise Byrdie Dantzler, daughter of Louise and Taurrence Brian. Attended Bryan High School in Dallas, TX.
Mary Brian is one of the best-liked silent movie stars both on and off the screen, Mary Brian came to Hollywood in 1923 by way of a beauty contest. Her first screen role was Wendy in the 1924 version of Peter Pan, which resulted in a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures. Mary proved herself equal to the challenge of the microphone with her spirited portrayal of the frontier heroine in her first all-talkie, The Virginian (1929). Her career lost momentum in the early 1930s, though she briefly rallied with an amusing turn as W. C. Fields' faithful daughter in The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) (a repeat of her role in the 1927 silent Running Wild) and an uncharacteristic appearance as a heartbreaking femme fatale in the 1936 Henry Fonda vehicle Spendthrift. Mary retired in 1937, making sporadic comebacks in such low-budgeters of the 1940s as I Escaped from the Gestapo. Mary Brian's last on-camera assignme