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Date of Birth

2 November 1892, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death

28 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA (cancer)

Mini Biography

Alice Brady was born in New York City on November 2, 1892. She was interested in the stage since she was a child. After a few stage productions, Alice was discovered by movie producers in New York, since this was the film capital at the time. Her first film was at the age of 22 when she starred in AS YE SOW in 1914. Alice was immediately put to work in a number of film projects. Although she appeared in three films in 1915, the following year saw her in nine productions. Alice was one of the fortunate actresses to make a successful transition from the silent era into the sound age. In 1936, Alice was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in MY MAN GODFREY. One year later, she won the Oscar for the same award in IN OLD CHICAGO where Alice turned out a tremendous performance. Alice died of cancer in New York City on October 28, 1939. She was only 46 years old. Her final film that year was YOUNG MR. LINCOLN.

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Spouse

James Crane

(1919 - 1922) (divorced) child, Donald

Trivia

Father was Broadway producer, William A. Brady. He was also involved in film making and was head of the World Film Corporation (191?-1918). He was also involved in an early fight against censorship in 1919 (not too ably) as president of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry.

Due to a broken ankle she was not able to attend The 10 Annual Academy Awards in which she won Best Supporting Actress for In Old Chicago (1937). During the ceremony an unidentified man walked up to the podium and accepted the award on her behalf. When she called The Academy to say that she had not received her Oscar, it was revealed that the man was had been an impostor who had crashed the party, accepted her award and walked off with it. Brady passed away before the academy could issue a replacement. Neither the stolen Oscar nor the man who walked away with it were ever heard from again.

Died of a virulent cancer, 5 days before what would have been her 47th birthday.

Although best remembered for her comic performances as socially-ambitious mothers ("My Man Godfrey"), she often played serious roles, among them Lavinia Mannon in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra.".

Her son was born in 1922.

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