Mary Carlisle

Mary Carlisle
Mary Carlisle
Born February 3, 1912 (1912-02-03) (age 99)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Years active 1930 – 1943
Spouse James Blakeley (1942-2007; his death) 1 child

Mary Carlisle (born February 3, 1912) is a retired American actress and singer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was a star of Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in 1932. The archetypal blonde, Mary Carlisle was brought to Hollywood at the age of four by her recently widowed mother. While eating lunch with her mother at the Universal Pictures commissary, Mary was spotted by Carl Laemmle, Jr. and offered a screen test.

Her first screen role was at the age of eight when she played Jackie Coogan's sweetheart in If I Were King. After that she decided to finish school before launching her film career. Carlisle finally stepped back in front of the cameras in 1930, appearing in a series of Collegian short subjects and Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. She subsequently freelanced in eighteen movies, alternating between supporting and leading roles. She co-starred in three films with Bing Crosby: College Humor, Double or Nothing and Doctor Rhythm.

In 1934, Carlisle was featured opposite Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray in Once to Every Woman, based on a story by A.J. Cronin. She also starred with Robert Armstrong and Richard Cromwell, for Producers Releasing Corporation, in Baby Face Morgan (1942).

During Carlisle's first decade in Hollywood, her mother became the second wife of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, thus becoming Kaiser's step-daughter. Carlisle married New York socialite James Blakely, a film actor who later became an executive producer at 20th Century-Fox. James Blakely, who wrote an autobiography entitled Wide-Eyed in Babylon in 1974, died on January 30, 2007. The couple had one child.

Carlisle retired from films in 1942. In 1949, she began a second career as the manager of the Elizabeth Arden Salon in Beverly Hills, California. She recently received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars", following the deaths of Gloria Stuart, and Barbara Kent (1927), only Carlisle (1932) is known to still be alive as of November 2011.[1]

References

  1. ^ Wollstein, Hans J. (2000–2001). "The WAMPAS Baby Stars". The Old Corral at b-westerns.com. http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies88.htm. 

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