Mary Brian
Birthday
1906/02/17
Day of death
2002/12/30 (96 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Corsicana, Texas, USA
Also know as
The Sweetest Girl in Pictures (nickname), Louise Byrdie Dantzler
Biography
Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002), was an American actress, who made the transition from silent films to sound films. Brian was dubbed "The Sweetest Girl in Pictures." After her showing in a beauty contest, she was given an audition by Paramount Pictures and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. There she starred with Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston, and the three of them stayed cl...Read more
Acting
(1935) Charlie Chan in Paris
as Yvette Lamartine
(1936) The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
as Frances Clayton
(1929) The Virginian
as Molly Stark Wood
(1931) The Front Page
as Peggy Grant
(1932) Blessed Event
as Gladys Price
(1927) Man Power
as Alice Stoddard
(1927) Shanghai Bound
as Sheila
(1927) Two Flaming Youths
as Mary Gilfoil
(1932) The Unwritten Law
as Ruth Evans
(1935) Man on the Flying Trapeze
as Hope Wolfinger
(1930) The Royal Family of Broadway
as Gwen Cavendish
(1931) Homicide Squad
as Millie
(1929) The Man I Love
as Celia Fields
(1933) Moonlight and Pretzels
as Sally Upton
(1933) The World Gone Mad
as Diane Cromwell
(1930) The Light of Western Stars
as Ruth Hammond
(1932) Manhattan Tower
as Mary Harper
(1933) Hard to Handle
as Ruth Waters
(1929) The Marriage Playground
as Judith Wheater
(1933) One Year Later
as Molly Collins
(1934) Monte Carlo Nights
as Mary Vernon
(1930) Only the Brave
as Barbara Calhoun
(1942) Jealous
as dancer
(1930) Only Saps Work
as Barbara Tanner
(1933) Girl Missing
as June Dale
(1926) Beau Geste
as Isabel Rivers
(1932) It's Tough to Be Famous
as Janet Porter McClenahan
(1943) Calaboose
as Doris Lane
(1937) Affairs of Cappy Ricks
as Frances 'Frankie' Ricks
(1937) Navy Blues
as Doris Kimbell
(1936) Three Married Men
as Jennie Mullins
(1931) The Runaround
as Evelyn
(1931) Captain Applejack
as Poppy Faire
(1936) Spendthrift
as Sally Barnaby
(1928) Varsity
as Fay
(1926) Brown of Harvard
as Mary Abbot
(1930) Burning Up
as Ruth Morgan
(1928) Forgotten Faces
as Alice Deane
(1930) The Social Lion
as Cynthia Brown
(1928) Partners in Crime
as Marie Burke, The Cigarette Girl
(1928) Harold Teen
as Lillums Lovewell
(1943) Danger! Women at Work
as Pert
(1925) The Street of Forgotten Men
as Mary Vanhern
(1924) Peter Pan
as Wendy Darling
(1926) Paris at Midnight
as Victorine Tallefer
(1926) Behind the Front
as Betty Bartlett-Cooper
(1929) The River of Romance
as Lucy Jeffers
(1930) The Kibitzer
as Josie Lazarus
(1925) The Air Mail
as Minnie Wade
(1925) The Little French Girl
as Alix Vervier
(1934) Ever Since Eve
as Elizabeth Vandergrift
(1933) Song of the Eagle
as Elsa Kranzmeyer
(1943) I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Helen
(1941) I Was a Criminal
as Frau Obermueller, the Mayor's Wife
(1926) More Pay - Less Work
as Betty Ricks
(1934) Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
as Self
(1930) Paramount on Parade
as Sweetheart (Dream Girl)
(1931) Gun Smoke
as Sue Vancey
(1929) Black Waters
as Eunice
(1927) Running Wild
as Elizabeth Finch
(1934) College Rhythm
as Gloria Van Dayham
(1947) Dragnet
as Anne Hogan
(1926) Stepping Along
as Molly Taylor
(1925) He's a Prince!
as Girl
(1933) Fog
as Mary Fulton
(1926) The Prince of Tempters
as Mary
(1928) The Big Killing
as Mary Beagle - Old Man Beagle's Daughter
(1927) Knockout Reilly
as Mary Malone
(1926) The Enchanted Hill
as Hallie Purdy
(1936) Killer at Large
as Linda Allen
(1936) Once in a Million
as Suzanne
(1928) Under the Tonto Rim
as Lucy Watson
(1936) Two's Company
as Julia Madison
(1931) Hollywood Halfbacks
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(1928) Someone to Love
as Joan Kendricks
(2024) Noisy Silencers
as (archive footage)
(1927) Her Father Said No
as Charlotte Hamilton
(1954) Meet Corliss Archer
as ---