Mary Nash(1884-1976)

Veteran stage character actress who came to Hollywood and settled in 1934, best known as Kate Hepburn's socialite mom in Indiscrétions (1940) and Shirley Temple's cruel nemesis in both Heidi la sauvageonne (1937) and Petite princesse (1939)."

[on her role as Anna Valeska in the play Captain Applejack] You don't know what fun it is. It feels, every night, as if I were stepping forth to a party. All the sobbing and gnashing of teeth that I have been doing had almost worn me out, and this part came along like a gust of wind that could blow you away if you'd let it, but it is very refreshing, just the same. It is perfectly true that emotional roles do exhaust you. I used to leave the theater tired to death. I don't know what fatigue means in this part.