About
Mary Field
Overview
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Mary Field (June 10, 1909 – June 12, 1996) was an American film actress who primarily appeared in supporting roles. She was born in New York City. As a child she never knew her biological parents. During her infancy she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name was "Olivia Rockefeller". She would later be adopted.
In 1937, she was signed under contract to Warner Bros. Studios and made her film debut in The Prince and the Pauper (1937). Her other screen credits include parts in such films as Jezebel (1938), Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), Eternally Yours (1939), When Tomorrow Comes (1939), Broadway Melody of 1940, Ball of Fire (1941), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ministry of Fear (1944), Dark Angel (1946), Out of the Past(1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Life With Father (1947). During her time in Hollywood she appeared in approximately 103 films.
Her TV credits include parts in Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and The Loretta Young Show. In 1963, her last acting role was as a Roman Catholic nun in the television series, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly and modeled after the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name. She appeared in several episodes of the television comedy, Topper, as Henrietta Topper's friend Thelma Gibney.
Known for
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| 1960 | Seven Ways from Sundown | Actor | Ma Karrington | 58 Average |
| 1958 | Ride a Crooked Trail | Actor | Mrs. Curtis | 59 Average |
| 1958 | The Missouri Traveler | Actor | Nelda Hamilton | 59 Average |
| 1957 | The Three Faces of Eve | Actor | Effie, sales clerk | 61 Fair |
| 1957 | The Three Faces of Eve | Actor | Effie Blanford (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1956 | Toy Tiger | Actor | Miss Elsie | 59 Average |
| 1956 | The Price of Fear | Actor | Ruth McNab | 59 Average |
| 1955 | Lucy Gallant | Actor | Irma Wilson | 59 Average |
| 1955 | To Hell and Back | Actor | Mrs. Murphy | 59 Average |
| 1955 | The Private War of Major Benson | Actor | Sister Mary Theresa | 59 Average |
| 1954 | Four Guns to the Border | Actor | Mrs. Pritchard | 58 Average |
| 1953 | The Lady Wants Mink | Actor | Janie | 59 Average |
| 1951 | Dear Brat | Actor | Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1950 | Edge of Doom | Actor | Mary Jane Glennon | 59 Average |
| 1950 | Cheaper by the Dozen | Actor | Music Teacher (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1949 | Dear Wife | Actor | Mrs. Bixby | 58 Average |
| 1949 | Mighty Joe Young | Actor | Secretary (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1949 | Special Agent | Actor | Miss Tannehill - Librarian (uncredited) | N/A N/A |
| 1949 | You're My Everything | Actor | Record Store Clerk (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Actor | Peasant woman | 59 Average |
| 1949 | Henry, the Rainmaker | Actor | Mrs. Sweeney | N/A N/A |
| 1948 | One Sunday Afternoon | Actor | Secretary | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Joan of Arc | Actor | Boy's Mother (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born | Actor | Miss Totten | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Sorry, Wrong Number | Actor | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1948 | Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid | Actor | Wee Shop Clerk | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Up in Central Park | Actor | Schoolteacher | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Romance on the High Seas | Actor | Marie - Elvira's Maid (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1948 | The Fuller Brush Man | Actor | Beaver Patrol Leader | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Sitting Pretty | Actor | Della (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1948 | If You Knew Susie | Actor | Telephone Operator | 59 Average |
| 1947 | Out of the Past | Actor | Marny (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 1947 | Louisiana | Actor | Mrs. Davis | N/A N/A |
| 1947 | Unconquered | Actor | Maggie | 59 Average |
| 1947 | Driftwood | Actor | Mrs. White | 59 Average |
| 1947 | Life with Father | Actor | Nora | 59 Average |
| 1947 | Dark Passage | Actor | Aunt Mary at Bus Station (uncredited) | 64 Fair |
| 1947 | The Unfaithful | Actor | Miss Bryar | 59 Average |
| 1947 | High Conquest | Actor | Miss Woodley | N/A N/A |
| 1947 | Welcome Stranger | Actor | Secretary | 58 Average |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | Actor | Dutch Girl's Adoptive Mother (uncredited) | 67 Fair |
| 1947 | The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Actor | Felice | 59 Average |
| 1947 | The Other Love | Actor | Nurse (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1947 | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | Actor | Typewriting Academy Receptionist | 59 Average |
| 1946 | Song of the South | Actor | Mrs. Favers | 60 Fair |
| 1946 | Black Angel | Actor | Mavis' Maid (Uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1946 | Rendezvous with Annie | Actor | Deborah | 59 Average |
| 1946 | The Walls Came Tumbling Down | Actor | Bradford's Secretary | 59 Average |
| 1946 | One More Tomorrow | Actor | Maude Miller | 59 Average |
| 1946 | Murder in the Music Hall | Actor | Waitress | 58 Average |
| 1946 | The Dark Corner | Actor | Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1946 | Talk About a Lady | Actor | Telephone Operator | 58 Average |
| 1946 | Little Giant | Actor | Secretary (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1945 | The Affairs of Susan | Actor | Nancy | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Frenchman's Creek | Actor | Prue (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1944 | Up in Mabel's Room | Actor | Priscilla's Sister (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1944 | The Port of 40 Thieves | Actor | Della | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Ladies of Washington | Actor | Nurse's Aide (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Actor | Penelope Hyslup (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid | Actor | Husband-Seeking Woman | N/A N/A |
| 1944 | It Happened Tomorrow | Actor | Restaurant Cashier (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Four Jills in a Jeep | Actor | Maid (scenes deleted) | 59 Average |
| 1943 | Princess O'Rourke | Actor | Clara Stilwell (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1943 | A Lady Takes a Chance | Actor | Florrie Bendix | 58 Average |
| 1943 | Three Hearts for Julia | Actor | Symphony Guild Secretary (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1943 | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Actor | Ellie, Cockney Maid | 59 Average |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Actor | Party Pianist (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1943 | The Gorilla Man | Actor | Nurse Kruger | 58 Average |
| 1942 | The Great Gildersleeve | Actor | Amelia Hooker | 59 Average |
| 1942 | You Were Never Lovelier | Actor | Louise - the Acuña Maid (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch | Actor | Nancy Wooley (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Actor | Ship's Passenger (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 1942 | You Can't Escape Forever | Actor | Kirsty Lundstrom (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1942 | Get Hep to Love | Actor | Woman Judge | 59 Average |
| 1942 | The Major and the Minor | Actor | Mother at Station (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1942 | Wake Island | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | Actor | Miss Spriggins (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 1942 | Miss Annie Rooney | Actor | Mrs. Metz | 59 Average |
| 1942 | This Above All | Actor | Hotel Maid | 59 Average |
| 1942 | The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Actor | Maid (Uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1942 | Mokey | Actor | Mrs. Graham | 59 Average |
| 1942 | Mexican Spitfire at Sea | Actor | Agnes | 58 Average |
| 1941 | Ball of Fire | Actor | Miss Totten | 63 Fair |
| 1941 | One Foot in Heaven | Actor | Lulu Digby (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1941 | How Green Was My Valley | Actor | Eve (uncredited) | 65 Fair |
| 1941 | Sea Raiders | Actor | Aggie Nelson | 59 Average |
| 1941 | Wild Geese Calling | Actor | Jennie Delaney | 58 Average |
| 1941 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Actor | Wife (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1941 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Actor | Woman on Street (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1941 | Shadows on the Stairs | Actor | Phoebe Marcia St. John Snell | 58 Average |
| 1941 | The Great Mr. Nobody | Actor | Miss Frame | 59 Average |
| 1941 | Golden Hoofs | Actor | Nellie Crocker | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Charter Pilot | Actor | King's Secretary | 59 Average |
| 1940 | The Bank Dick | Actor | Woman with Cherries on Hat (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1940 | The Trail Blazers | Actor | Alice Chapman | N/A N/A |
| 1940 | The Ape | Actor | Mrs. Mason | 58 Average |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia | Actor | Susan Howard | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Girls of the Road | Actor | Mae | 58 Average |
| 1940 | Three Faces West | Actor | Mrs. Stebbins | 58 Average |
| 1940 | My Son, My Son! | Actor | Bessie, Ladies' Room Maid | 58 Average |
| 1940 | Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me! | Actor | Girl Customer (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Broadway Melody of 1940 | Actor | Second Bride (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Convicted Woman | Actor | Gracie Dunn | 58 Average |
| 1940 | The Invisible Man Returns | Actor | Passerby at Willie's House (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1940 | Legion of the Lawless | Actor | Mrs. Barton | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Eternally Yours | Actor | Peabody's Housekeeper | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Dancing Co-Ed | Actor | Miss Jennie May | 59 Average |
| 1939 | The Fighting Gringo | Actor | Sandra Courtney | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Stunt Pilot | Actor | Ethel | N/A N/A |
| 1939 | Good Girls Go to Paris | Actor | Ada - Brand's Maid (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1939 | The Sun Never Sets | Actor | Maid | 59 Average |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Actor | Piano Player | 58 Average |
| 1939 | The Family Next Door | Actor | Secretary | 58 Average |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Actor | Mrs. Daly | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Society Smugglers | Actor | Secretary | 59 Average |
| 1939 | Made for Each Other | Actor | Johns Hopkins Technician (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1938 | There Goes My Heart | Actor | Mrs. Crud - Pennypepper's Patient (voice) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1938 | Slander House | Actor | Bessie, an attendant | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Youth Takes a Fling | Actor | Maid | 58 Average |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Actor | Millie - Mrs. Updyke's Maid (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1938 | Cowboy from Brooklyn | Actor | Myrtle Semple | 59 Average |
| 1938 | White Banners | Actor | Hester | 58 Average |
| 1938 | Jezebel | Actor | Woman at the Olympus Ball (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 1937 | The Prince and the Pauper | Actor | Mrs. Canty | 59 Average |
| 1937 | Call It a Day | Actor | Elsie Lester, Roger's Secretary (uncredited) | 59 Average |