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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.
Filmography Seven Ways from Sundown
1960
Mary Karrington
Details Ride a Crooked Trail
1958
Mrs. Curtis
Details The Missouri Traveler
1958
Nelda Hamilton
Details The Three Faces of Eve
1957
Effie, sales clerk
Details The Three Faces of Eve
1957
Effie Blanford (uncredited)
Details The Price of Fear
1956
Ruth McNab
Details Lucy Gallant
1955
Irma Wilson
Details To Hell and Back
1955
Mrs. Murphy
Details The Private War of Major Benson
1955
Sister Mary Theresa
Details Four Guns to the Border
1954
Mrs. Pritchard
Details The Lady Wants Mink
1953
Janie
Details Dear Brat
1951
Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited)
Details Edge of Doom
1950
Mary Jane Glennon
Details Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
Music Teacher (uncredited)
Details Mighty Joe Young
1949
Secretary (uncredited)
Details You're My Everything
1949
Record Store Clerk (uncredited)
Details Special Agent
1949
Miss Tannehill - Librarian (uncredited)
Details A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
Peasant woman
Details Henry, the Rainmaker
1949
Mrs. Sweeney
Details One Sunday Afternoon
1948
Secretary
Details Joan of Arc
1948
Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Details A Song Is Born
1948
Miss Totten
Details Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Details Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
1948
Wee Shop Clerk
Details Up in Central Park
1948
Schoolteacher
Details Romance on the High Seas
1948
Marie - Elvira's Maid (uncredited)
Details The Fuller Brush Man
1948
Beaver Patrol Leader (uncredited)
Details Sitting Pretty
1948
Della (uncredited)
Details If You Knew Susie
1948
Telephone Operator
Details Out of the Past
1947
Marny (uncredited)
Details Dark Passage
1947
Aunt Mary at Bus Station (uncredited)
Details The Unfaithful
1947
Miss Bryar
Details High Conquest
1947
Miss Woodley
Details Welcome Stranger
1947
Secretary
Details Miracle on 34th Street
1947
Dutch Girl's Adoptive Mother (uncredited)
Details The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
Felice
Details The Other Love
1947
Nurse (uncredited)
Details The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947
Typewriting Academy Receptionist
Details Song of the South
1946
Mrs. Favers
Details Black Angel
1946
Mavis' Maid (Uncredited)
Details Rendezvous with Annie
1946
Deborah
Details The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
Bradford's Secretary
Details One More Tomorrow
1946
Maude Miller
Details Murder in the Music Hall
1946
Waitress
Details The Dark Corner
1946
Movie Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Details Talk About a Lady
1946
Telephone Operator
Details Little Giant
1946
Secretary (uncredited)
Details The Affairs of Susan
1945
Nancy
Details Frenchman's Creek
1944
Prue (uncredited)
Details Up in Mabel's Room
1944
Priscilla's Sister (uncredited)
Details The Port of 40 Thieves
1944
Della
Details Mr. Skeffington
1944
Penelope Hyslup (uncredited)
Details Ladies of Washington
1944
Nurse's Aide (uncredited)
Details Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944
Husband-Seeking Woman
Details It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Restaurant Cashier (uncredited)
Details Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
Maid (scenes deleted)
Details Princess O'Rourke
1943
Clara Stilwell (uncredited)
Details A Lady Takes a Chance
1943
Florrie Bendix
Details Three Hearts for Julia
1943
Symphony Guild Secretary (uncredited)
Details Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943
Ellie, Cockney Maid
Details Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
Party Pianist (uncredited)
Details The Gorilla Man
1943
Nurse Kruger
Details The Great Gildersleeve
1942
Amelia Hooker
Details You Were Never Lovelier
1942
Louise - the Acuña Maid (uncredited)
Details I Married a Witch
1942
Nancy Wooley (uncredited)
Details Now, Voyager
1942
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Details You Can't Escape Forever
1942
Kirsty Lundstrom (uncredited)
Details Get Hep to Love
1942
Woman Judge
Details The Major and the Minor
1942
Mother at Station (uncredited)
Details Wake Island
1942
Character TBA
Details Mrs. Miniver
1942
Miss Spriggins (uncredited)
Details Miss Annie Rooney
1942
Mrs. Metz
Details This Above All
1942
Hotel Maid
Details The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942
Maid (Uncredited)
Details Mexican Spitfire at Sea
1942
Agnes
Details Ball of Fire
1941
Miss Totten
Details One Foot in Heaven
1941
Lulu Digby (uncredited)
Details How Green Was My Valley
1941
Eve (uncredited)
Details Sea Raiders
1941
Aggie Nelson
Details Wild Geese Calling
1941
Jennie Delaney
Details Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Wife (uncredited)
Details A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
Woman on Street (uncredited)
Details Shadows on the Stairs
1941
Phoebe Marcia St. John Snell
Details The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
Miss Frame
Details Golden Hoofs
1941
Nellie Crocker
Details Charter Pilot
1940
King's Secretary
Details The Bank Dick
1940
Woman with Cherries on Hat (uncredited)
Details The Trail Blazers
1940
Alice Chapman
Details The Howards of Virginia
1940
Susan Howard
Details Three Faces West
1940
Mrs. Stebbins
Details My Son, My Son!
1940
Bessie, Ladies' Room Maid
Details Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
1940
Girl Customer (uncredited)
Details Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
Second Bride (uncredited)
Details Convicted Woman
1940
Gracie Dunn
Details The Invisible Man Returns
1940
Passerby at Willie's House (uncredited)
Details Legion of the Lawless
1940
Mrs. Barton
Details Eternally Yours
1939
Peabody's Housekeeper
Details Dancing Co-Ed
1939
Miss Jennie May
Details The Fighting Gringo
1939
Sandra Courtney
Details Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
Ada - Brand's Maid (uncredited)
Details The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Piano Player
Details The Family Next Door
1939
Secretary
Details Sergeant Madden
1939
Mrs. Daly
Details Society Smugglers
1939
Secretary
Details Made for Each Other
1939
Johns Hopkins Technician (uncredited)
Details There Goes My Heart
1938
Mrs. Crud - Pennypepper's Patient (voice) (uncredited)
Details Slander House
1938
Bessie, an attendant
Details Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Maid
Details The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
Millie - Mrs. Updyke's Maid (uncredited)
Details Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938
Myrtle Semple
Details Jezebel
1938
Woman at the Olympus Ball (uncredited)
Details The Prince and the Pauper
1937
Mrs. Canty
Details Call It a Day
1937
Elsie Lester, Roger's Secretary (uncredited)
Details