Margaret Wycherly

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Margaret Wycherly

Margaret Wycherly (born October 26, 1881 in London , England , † June 6, 1956 in New York City , New York , USA ) was a British actress .

Life

Margaret Wycherly, was actually primarily a stage actress, but appeared occasionally in silent films, for the first time at the age of 34 in The Fight of 1915. She was after trips to Broadway, such as in the critically acclaimed appearances in Tobacco Road and The Thirteenth Chair , finally to a sound film star through two roles in particular, in which she played the mother of two Hollywood legends in each film.

In 1941, in Sergeant York , she played Gary Cooper's mother . This immediately earned her an Oscar nomination . However, she made an even more lasting impression on the audience as the mother of James Cagney in the 1949 film Jump in the Death ( White Heat ). Here she played in an impressive way a type that was rarely to be found in Hollywood at the time, a super mother, who was clearly not innocent of her son's psychopathic traits. Wycherly embodied a woman who, as so often in this period, did not represent a good and rather passive corrective for the protagonist or, as a mere "femme fatale", was a means to an end to lead the protagonist in a more passive way into a vortex of abyss maneuvering, but a cunning, resolute and overpowering woman standing in the criminal milieu, who exerts significant influence on the psyche of her son and ultimately manipulates him for her own purposes, albeit out of motives of unreflected love for him.

Margaret Wycherley married Bayard Veiller in 1901 and they had a son, Anthony . She died in New York City in 1956 at the age of 74.

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SURNAME Wycherly, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1956
Place of death New York City , New York , USA