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Mary Carlisle
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Mary Carlisle retired from films in 1942. Seven years later, she began a second career as the manager of the Elizabeth Arden Salon in Beverly Hills, California. Carlisle recently received a "star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Of the fifteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" in the year 1932, Carlisle is one of only three still living today. The other two are Dorothy Layton, and Gloria Stuart, star of the blockbuster 1997 movie Titanic.
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Lloyd's ward, Gayle (Mary Carlisle), becomes engaged to marry the young physician Dr. David Bently (Nedrick Young), on the night that Zolarr exhumes Elwyn's coffin and he emerges as a vampire ready to seek revenge on his brother. Elwyn displays his vampire powers, only achieved at night, as there's the mysterious death of a healthy person. He then vows to make Gayle his disciple and puts her in a trance. When Clayton is visited by the ghostly figure of his evil brother, he can't get David to believe him. David thinks Clayton has turned evil and is responsible for Gayle's condition. As Gayle lies in a coma and grows weaker every day, the two squabble until a local woman, Kate (Fern Emmett), who is considered by the locals as daffy, suggests all the movie-lore remedies for handling a vampire, like having a crucifix worn by Mary as protection and finding during daylight the body of the vampire and burning it. David is convinced when Elwyn puts in an appearance at Mary's bedside with him present, but the ignorant locals form a lynching party for Clayton.
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From All Movie Guide: The archetypal "college coed" type of the 1930s, Mary Carlisle was brought to Hollywood at age four by her recently widowed mother. While eating lunch with her mother at the Universal Pictures commissary, Mary was spotted by Carl Laemmle Jr. and offered a screen test. She was interested, but decided to finish school before launching her film career. She finally stepped before the cameras in the early Cecil B. DeMille talkie Madame Satan (1930); she free-lanced thereafter, appearing in as many as 18 pictures a year. Mary played leads from 1933 onward, notably in a trio of Bing Crosby pictures: College Humor (1933), Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938). During Mary's first decade in Hollywood, her mother became the second wife of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.
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Mary Carlisle was born in Richmond, Virginia, at the home of her maternal grandparents. She was born into a very wealthy and privileged family. Her father, Calderon Carlisle, was a successful lawyer and this meant that Mary had a private education which included piano lessons which was regarded as one of the essential accomplishments foryoung ladies of the day. One of her early teachers was Hermine Seron. This would explain why most of her early works are for the piano.
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Like Robson, Grand Old Girl's co-stars Alan Hale and Mary Carlisle were ... enjoying successful careers at the time the film was made. Hale entered films in 1911 and had starred with silent greats such as Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922). Hale’s sound career was on the rise when Grand Old Girl was filmed. He had recently appeared in the Bette Davis-Leslie Howard drama Of Human Bondage and the John Ford war adventure The Lost Patrol (both 1934). Likewise, Carlisle had made a name for herself as a B-movie regular in films such as Wheeler and Woolsey’s Kentucky Kernels and the mystery Murder in the Private Car (both 1934).
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Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor (Bing Crosby) and one of his students (Mary Carlisle). Feeling stilted, the school football star (Richard Arlen) is temporarily unable to concentrate on his game. Fortunately for the team, Crosby's romantic interest has a football-loving brother (Jack Oakie) who saves the day. Husband and wife team Gracie Allen and George Burns appear as themselves, stopping by to create mayhem at a fraternity dance. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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