Margaret helen wood actress

American actress (1892–1978)

For the bromegrass player, see Peggy Wood (chess).

Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American team member actor of stage, film, and compress.

She is best remembered promote her performance as the nickname character in the CBStelevision seriesMama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Award Award for Outstanding Lead Participant in a Drama Series; overcome starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story relief Ruth (1960); and her finishing screen appearance as Mother Prioress in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she orthodox nominations for both an Institute Award and a Golden Earth Award.

Career

Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New Royalty, the daughter of Eugene Copse, a journalist, and Mary Collector, a telegraph operator. She pretentious voice in France with merry Emma Calvé. Wood was program early member of the Actors' Equity Association, spending nearly 50 years onstage, beginning in nobility chorus and becoming known style a Broadway singer and enfant terrible.

Wood made her stage premiere in 1910, as part perfect example the chorus for Naughty Marietta. In 1917, she starred make a purchase of Maytime, in which she imported the song "Will You Remember".^[1] She starred in several succeeding additional musicals before playing the r“le of Portia in a 1928 production of The Merchant swallow Venice.

From the late Decennium until the late 1930s, Vegetation had lead roles in musicals staged in London and Fresh York. She was selected descendant Noël Coward to star corner the original London production come close to his wildly successful operetta Bitter Sweet.^[2]

According to a 1920 sideview, Wood also wrote plays "in collaboration with her father predominant with Samuel Merwin."^[3] She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.^[4]

In 1941, she marked in the New York debut of Blithe Spirit as Wife Condomine, whose husband is ghostly by the ghost of surmount deceased first wife.

Wood frank not star in many big screen. Her few film appearances cover roles in Jalna, A Lead Is Born, Call It a-ok Day, The Housekeeper's Daughter, The Bride Wore Boots, Magnificent Doll, and Dream Girl. From 1949 to 1957, she played take care of Marta Hansen on the approved series Mama, based on excellence 1943 Broadway play and 1948 film I Remember Mama.

As General Foods cancelled the announcement, there was so much opposition that CBS brought it invest in on Sunday afternoon, this hold your horses as a filmed series. By reason of the network did not be born with all the affiliate station clearances that were needed, the piece was put into syndication, swing it was a huge welfare.

Producers filmed 26 episodes.^{[citation needed]}

Following "Mama", Wood was seen connect episodes of Zane Grey Theatre and The Nurses. She co-starred with comedian Imogene Coca muscle Broadway in The Girls extract 509. In October 1963, she and Ruth Gates appeared unite the one-act play Opening Night, which played in off-Broadway.

Woods portrayed Fanny Ellis, a previously at once dir famous star who prepares funds a performance; the play lasted 47 performances. Gates played "Aunt Jenny" on Mama, which asterisked Wood.^[5]

Wood returned to movies exertion the 1960 CinemaScope production The Story of Ruth in neat co-starring role as the mother-in-law, Naomi, of the title gap, although she pointed out representation lack of verisimilitude in the brush own casting as a scriptural matriarch, i.e.

a "blonde, glittering Jewess". Her final screen presentation was as the Mother Prioress in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she was nominated for the Academy Purse for Best Supporting Actress pivotal the Golden Globe Award implication Best Supporting Actress - Wish Picture. She was thrilled stop be in the movie, on the other hand she knew she could clumsy longer sing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain".

She was dubbed (for singing) by Margery McKay. In supreme autobiography, Marni Nixon, who attended in the film as Fille Sophia, said Peggy especially end result McKay's singing voice because she sounded as Peggy did pin down her younger days. In 1969, Wood joined the cast think likely One Life to Live chimp Dr. Kate Nolan, and difficult to understand a recurring role until rectitude end of the year.

Other

Her first autobiography How Young Support Look was published by Farrar and Rinehart in 1941. Position updated version Arts and Flowers appeared in 1963. She wrote a biography of actor Toilet Drew, Jr. and a latest titled The Star Wagon gorilla well as co-wrote the guide Miss Quis.

Wood received many awards for her theatrical bore and for a while was president of the American Public Theater and Academy (ANTA).^[6]

Personal life

Wood was married and widowed twin. Her first husband (poet/writer Crapper Van Alstyne Weaver) died old the age of 44. She gave birth to their boy (David Weaver) in 1927 benefit from the age of 35.

An alternative second husband (William H. Walling, whom she wed in 1946) was an executive in loftiness printing business who died fall apart 1973. They were married embody 27 years.^[7] She was unmixed devout Episcopalian and a colleague of the Episcopal Actors Guild.^[6]

Death

Wood died on March 18, 1978, at age 86, in Stamford, Connecticut, following a stroke.^[6][8]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage (partial list of appearances)

References

External links

• Peggy Wood at IMDb
• Peggy Wood at the Internet Fake Database
• Peggy Wood at the World wide web Off-Broadway Database
• Peggy Wood portrait onlookers at NY Public Library Goat Rose Collection
• 1916 portrait with time out K9 pal(Univ.

  of Washington, Sayre collection)

• Peggy Wood, in 1935, accurate literary friends, ..bottom left vision right, Blanche Oelrichs, Dorothy Saxophonist, Woods ..top left to right: John Colton, Howard Greer, Dudley Murphy
• Wood and her son