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Mary Wickes: Washington University
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Aufgewachsen im US-Bundesstaat Missouri besuchte Mary Wickes nach dem Schulabschluss zunächst die Washington University in St. Louis. Daneben spielte sie als Schauspielerin für Theater- und Radio-Produktionen. Dabei arbeitete sie auch für Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre of the Air. Von Welles erhielt sie 1938 auch ihre erste Filmrolle in dem Kurzfilm Too Much Johnson mit Joseph Cotten.
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From All Movie Guide: "I'm not a comic," insisted Mary Wickes. "I'm an actress who plays comedy." True enough; still Wickes was often heaps funnier than the so-called comics she supported. The daughter of a well-to-do St. Louis banker, Wickes was an excellent student, completing a political science degree at the University of Washington at the age of 18. She intended to become a lawyer, but she was deflected into theatre. During her stock company apprenticeship, Wickes befriended Broadway star Ina Claire, who wrote the young actress a letter of introduction to powerful New York producer Sam Harris.
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Thursday's dedication will premiere an 11-minute video of excerpts from Wickes' work and interviews with Wickes and many who knew her. It will ... feature as speakers Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of University Libraries; and Gregory Richards, Wickes' longtime friend and pastor of the Beverly Hills, Calif., Episcopal church Wickes attended. The ceremony, sponsored by University Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences, is free and open to the public.
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Mary ... took her nursing roles seriously, working frequently as a volunteer nurse and board member of several medical institutions. She also taught comedy acting seminars at Washington University, the College of William and Mary, and the American Conservatory Theater.
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