Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis (born November 25, 1896 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 2, 1972 in Danbury , Connecticut ) was an American actress .
Life
Jessie Royce Landis began her acting career at theaters in her hometown of Chicago. When she was 30, she made her Broadway debut in New York City in The Honor of the Family . At a young age, she successfully specialized in character roles that were often older than herself, but which earned her a long acting career. In 1930 she played the leading female role in the sound film Man Overboard alongside George Bancroft , but this was her last film appearance for the next 19 years. In the 1930s and 1940s she continued her theater career and starred in a total of over 30 Broadway productions.
It was not until 1949 that Jessie Royce Landis was regularly in front of the camera again, where she was now mostly used in maternal, comedic supporting roles. She probably had her best-known roles in Alfred Hitchcock's oeuvre : In Above the Roofs of Nice (1955) she played the mother of Grace Kelly , in The Invisible Third (1959) the mother of Cary Grant . In both films, Landis' character annoyed her film children with her instructive, overprotective behavior. As the mother of her Hitchcock film daughter Grace Kelly, she also appeared in the melodrama The Swan . She played her last cinema role in the disaster film Airport , and Royce Landis had her last television appearance in 1971 in an episode of the Columbo series .
In 1954 she published her autobiography You Won't Be So Pretty . In 1972 Jessie Royce Landis died of complications from cancer at the age of 75 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1930: Man Overboard (Derelict)
- 1949: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
- 1949: Fear of Shame (My Foolish Heart)
- 1955: Above the roofs of Nice (To Catch a Thief)
- 1956: The Swan (The Swan)
- 1956: Playboy - March, March! (The Girl He Left Behind)
- 1957: Mein Mann Gottfried (My Man Godfrey)
- 1958: Left and right of the marriage bed (I married a woman)
- 1959: The Invisible Third (North by Northwest)
- 1959: It's only available in America (A Private's Affair)
- 1960: do you love Brahms? (Goodbye Again)
- 1962: Champagne in Paris (Bon Voyage!)
- 1962: Don't do that, Angelika (Critic's choice)
- 1962: Sexy! (Boys' Night Out)
- 1963: April discovers Rome (Gidget goes to Rome)
- 1970: Airport
- 1971: Columbo : Steps from the Shadows ( Columbo: Lady in Waiting ; TV movie)
Web links
- Jessie Royce Landis in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jessie Royce Landis in Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Jessie Royce Landis in database Find a Grave (English)
- Jessie Royce Landis in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jessie Royce Landis: What a Character!
- ↑ Jessie Royce Landis at Allmovie
- ↑ Jessie Royce Landis: What a Character!
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landis, Jessie Royce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1972 |
| Place of death | Danbury , Connecticut , United States |