Mercedes mccambridge net worth
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Mercedes McCambridge
American actress (1916–2004)
Mercedes McCambridge | |
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McCambridge in All the King's Men (1949) | |
| Born | Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (1916-03-16)March 16, 1916 Joliet, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 2, 2004(2004-03-02) (aged 87) La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Mundelein College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1930s–2004 |
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| Children | 1 |
Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge[1] (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress".[2] She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her screen debut in All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She voiced the majority of dialogue for demon Pazuzu in The Exorcist (19
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McCambridge, Mercedes (1918—)
Stage, screen, and radio actress who won an Academy Award for her first film and was later the off-camera voice of the demon in The Exorcist . Born Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge on March 17, 1918, in Joliet, Illinois; daughter of John Patrick McCambridge (a farmer) and Marie (Mahaffry) McCambridge; Mundelein College, B.A., 1937; married William Fifield (a writer), in 1939 (divorced 1946); married Fletcher Markle (a writer and director), in 1950 (divorced 1962); children: (first marriage) John Lawrence (died 1987).
Selected filmography:
All the King's Men (1949); Lightning Strikes Twice (1951); Inside Straight (1951); The Scarf (1951); Johnny Guitar (1954); Giant (1956); Suddenly, Last Summer (1959); Cimarron (1960); Angel Baby (1961); Crackshot (1968); 99 Women (1969); Sixteen (1972); Two for the Money (1972); The Girls of Huntington House (1973); (voice only) The Exorcist (1973); Thieves (1977); The Sacketts (1979); Amazing Stories: Book Two (1987).
Born in 1918 in Joliet, Illinois, actress Mercede
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I am a huge fan of the horror genre and one of my all-time favorite films is 1973’s The Exorcist directed by William Fredkin, based on William Peter Blatty’s novel of the same name (also a personal favorite). Recently, I was tasked with working on updating the WLA’s collections page when I made an amazing discovery: our archives held the collection of a major star of this film.
Mercedes McCambridge, who often felt more comfortable being addressed simply as Mercy, is perhaps the most famous graduate of Mundelein College*. Many students who take classes in the Mundelein skyscraper today do not realize that the building’s auditorium played a crucial role in the education of an Oscar-winning actor. A few years ago, my colleague Nathan recounted the impact of Mundelein College on McCambridge’s career in another post on the WLA blog titled “Acting Up: Mercedes McCambridge and Sister Mary Leola Oliver.” At the WLA, we often speak about McCambridge’s Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, awarded in 1949 for her role as Sadie Burke in A
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