MARY PHILIPS
Mary Philips
- © Twentieth Century-Fox
- (Mary Philips in Leave Her to Heaven, 1945)
Biography
BIO
Mary Philips was born in New London, Connecticut in 1901.
She made her Broadway stage debut as a chorus girl in 1918, at the age of 17. A prolific stage actress, she went on to appear in another 30 Broadway productions through 1945.
Philips made her first film appearance in 1930, at the age of 29, in a short-reel for Vitaphone. She appeared in 20 feature films during her career. Her last film was released in 1954.
Philips married the actor Humphrey Bogart in 1928. With a well established stage career on Broadway, she refused to follow him to Hollywood. They divorced in 1938.
That same year, she married the actor and long-time friend Kenneth MacKenna. They remained married until his death in 1962.
Philips died of cancer in Santa Monica, California, in 1975. She was 74 years old.
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