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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.
Movies
Out of the Past
Marny (uncredited)
The Three Faces of Eve
Effie, sales clerk
Song of the South
Mrs. Favers
Life with Father
Nora
Edge of Doom
Mary Jane Glennon
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Peasant woman
The Prince and the Pauper
Mrs. Canty
The Port of 40 Thieves
Della
Mighty Joe Young
Secretary (uncredited)
The Major and the Minor
Mother at Station (uncredited)
The Price of Fear
Ruth McNab
The Howards of Virginia
Susan Howard
Girls of the Road
Mae
Seven Ways from Sundown
Ma Karrington
Driftwood
Mrs. White
The Private War of Major Benson
Sister Mary Theresa
The Great Gildersleeve
Amelia Hooker
Welcome Stranger
Secretary
Convicted Woman
Gracie Dunn
Miss Annie Rooney
Mrs. Metz
The Affairs of Susan
Nancy
Sergeant Madden
Mrs. Daly
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Agnes
One Sunday Afternoon
Secretary
Four Guns to the Border
Mrs. Pritchard
Sea Raiders
Aggie Nelson
White Banners
Hester
Up in Central Park
Schoolteacher
The Missouri Traveler
Nelda Hamilton
The Ape
Mrs. Mason
Slander House
Bessie, an attendant
The Lady Wants Mink
Janie
Ride a Crooked Trail
Mrs. Curtis
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
Wee Shop Clerk
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Millie - Mrs. Updyke's Maid (uncredited)
Jezebel
Woman at the Olympus Ball (uncredited)
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Myrtle Semple
Dark Passage
Aunt Mary at Bus Station (uncredited)
Three Hearts for Julia
Symphony Guild Secretary (uncredited)
Wild Geese Calling
Jennie Delaney
Shadows on the Stairs
Phoebe Marcia St. John Snell
Youth Takes a Fling
Maid
The Family Next Door
Secretary
To Hell and Back
Mrs. Murphy
Broadway Melody of 1940
Second Bride (uncredited)
Stunt Pilot
Ethel
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Husband-Seeking Woman
Made for Each Other
Johns Hopkins Technician (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Piano Player
The Sun Never Sets
Maid
Dancing Co-Ed
Miss Jennie May
Eternally Yours
Peabody's Housekeeper
Now, Voyager
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris
Ada - Brand's Maid (uncredited)
The Invisible Man Returns
Passerby at Willie's House (uncredited)
Legion of the Lawless
Mrs. Barton
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Bradford's Secretary
Ball of Fire
Miss Totten
The Unfaithful
Miss Bryar
It Happened Tomorrow
Restaurant Cashier (uncredited)
Society Smugglers
Secretary
Dear Brat
Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Woman on Street (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
Woman with Cherries on Hat (uncredited)
My Son, My Son!
Bessie, Ladies' Room Maid
Three Faces West
Mrs. Stebbins
Mr. Skeffington
Penelope Hyslup (uncredited)
You Were Never Lovelier
Louise - the Acuña Maid (uncredited)
Lucy Gallant
Irma Wilson
I Married a Witch
Nancy Wooley (uncredited)
The Trail Blazers
Alice Chapman
Miracle on 34th Street
Dutch Girl's Adoptive Mother (uncredited)
One More Tomorrow
Maude Miller
A Lady Takes a Chance
Florrie Bendix
The Fuller Brush Man
Beaver Patrol Leader
Up in Mabel's Room
Priscilla's Sister (uncredited)
Golden Hoofs
Nellie Crocker
The Great Mr. Nobody
Miss Frame
Get Hep to Love
Woman Judge
A Song Is Born
Miss Totten
Mokey
Mrs. Graham
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Felice
If You Knew Susie
Telephone Operator
Henry, the Rainmaker
Mrs. Sweeney
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Party Pianist (uncredited)
The Fighting Gringo
Sandra Courtney
The Gorilla Man
Nurse Kruger
Murder in the Music Hall
Waitress
Princess O'Rourke
Clara Stilwell (uncredited)
Dear Wife
Mrs. Bixby
Ladies of Washington
Nurse's Aide (uncredited)
Unconquered
Maggie
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
Girl Customer (uncredited)
Little Giant
Secretary (uncredited)
High Conquest
Miss Woodley
Frenchman's Creek
Prue (uncredited)
This Above All
Hotel Maid
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Typewriting Academy Receptionist
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Ellie, Cockney Maid
Call It a Day
Elsie Lester, Roger's Secretary (uncredited)
Romance on the High Seas
Marie - Elvira's Maid (uncredited)
You Can't Escape Forever
Kirsty Lundstrom (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
Lulu Digby (uncredited)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Maid (Uncredited)
The Dark Corner
Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Black Angel
Mavis' Maid (Uncredited)
You're My Everything
Record Store Clerk (uncredited)
Mrs. Miniver
Miss Spriggins (uncredited)
The Three Faces of Eve
Effie Blanford (uncredited)
Sitting Pretty
Della (uncredited)
There Goes My Heart
Mrs. Crud - Pennypepper's Patient (voice) (uncredited)
Wake Island
Rendezvous with Annie
Deborah
Joan of Arc
Boy's Mother (uncredited)
The Other Love
Nurse (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
Maid (scenes deleted)
Louisiana
Mrs. Davis
Cheaper by the Dozen
Music Teacher (uncredited)
How Green Was My Valley
Eve (uncredited)
Charter Pilot
King's Secretary
Toy Tiger
Miss Elsie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wife (uncredited)
Shows
Gunsmoke
Minerva
Four Star Playhouse
Nora
Gunsmoke
Clara
Topper
Wagon Train
Mrs. Gillespie
Studio 57
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Cathy Marion
Chevron Theatre