Olive Carey

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Olive Golden Carey , née Olive Fuller Golden (born January 31, 1896 in New York City , New York , † March 13, 1988 in Carpinteria , California ) was an American actress who worked between the 1910s and the 1960s played mainly in western films.

Life

Olive Fuller Golden, whose year of birth is occasionally given as 1895, was born into a family of actors. Her father, George Fuller Golden, was an actor and variety entertainer. He founded the first American actors union . Her younger sisters Ruth Fuller Golden (1901–1931) and Mignonne Golden (1904–1997) also became actresses. Olive got into film around 1912. There she soon met her future husband, the actor Harry Carey . She also made early acquaintance with the later directing legend John Ford , with whom she remained on friendly terms for many years. At times she acted as Ford's manager. She is said to have made the two soul mates "Easterner" known to each other, thus creating one of the foundations for the American western film as a legend of the just faded Wild West .

His marriage to Harry Carey, 18 years his senior, in January 1920 gave birth to two children, Ellen and Henry Jr., who, like his father, took the stage name Harry Carey (Jr.) . Both children are especially familiar with their nicknames , Ellen was nicknamed "Cappy", Harry was only called "Dobe" by friends and colleagues. Olive Carey had six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren at the end of her life.

Olive Carey starred in over 70 films. Her acting career, however, was marked by several longer periods of interruption. Olive Carey was considered a very self-confident and energetic woman from an early age. As an actress, she often took on roles in which she could portray self-confident to resolute, tough to male female characters. In the early silent film era , she acted under her maiden name Olive (Fuller) Golden, occasionally she was listed as Olive (Fuller) Gordon. After the death of her husband in, she appeared in several well-known films by her friend John Ford, for example in the western classic The Black Falcon , where she was the film mother of her biological son Harry Carey Jr. as Mrs. Jorgensen. mimed. Ford's film 3 Godfathers (Eng. Traces in the Sand , 1948) was dedicated to the memory of her husband, who died in 1947, the "shining star in the early western firmament" (To the memory of Harry Carey "Bright star of the early western sky ... ").

The special relationship with John Ford is also highlighted by an anecdote passed down by her son , according to which she repeatedly forgot her lyrics while filming the western Zwei ritten together (a variation on The Black Falcon ), so that the main actor Richard Widmark is already in Laughing fits walled. Ford then grumbled in his own way, “ Goldie, you're the worst goddam actress I've ever directed ” ( Goldie, you're the worst goddam actress I've ever had to lead), she is said to have replied with a wink: “ Oh go fuck yourself! “(Oh, fuck yourself!). No one else, Harry Carey Jr. emphasized, should have allowed such a disrespectful reaction to the conservative Ford without having to fear serious consequences. Actors who ended up on Ford's blacklist often had long-term problems getting bigger roles. At the same time, apart from her deceased husband, only John Ford should have allowed himself to condescitively call Olive Carey " Goldie " (piece of gold), even if it is understood as a derivation from her maiden name.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Harry Carey (jr.): Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company . Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, et al. a. 1994 (Filmmakers; 42), ISBN 0-8108-2865-0

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personal data
SURNAME Carey, Olive
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carey, Olive Golden (full name); Golden, Olive Fuller (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1988
Place of death Carpinteria , California