LYCOS RETRIEVER
Mildred Natwick
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Elderly mystery writer Millicent Shand (Mildred Natwick) visits the Cryogenic Institute run by Dr. Kirk (Peter Lawford). She says that she is interested in seeing if she would like to retire there and be frozen after death. Actually, she hopes to gather evidence that her late friend was murdered so the Institute could collect a $2 million bequest she left to them in her will.
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Synopsis: Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney star as four elderly pranksters devoted to practical jokes. When one of the ladies gets hold of a computer-dating questionnaire, the others invent a mythical girl and feed the falsified information into the computer. Alas, the descriptionRead More
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Joseph Natwick had two daughters, Mary and Mildred Natwick. Mildred was a character actress and has starred in many movies. Some of her noteworthy movies were: Dangerous Liaisons, The Trouble with Harry , and Barefoot in the Park . She ... starred with Helen Hayes in the TV series, The Snoop Sisters .
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In 1921 Natwick became an animator for the Hearst Film Service. Later, Grim went to
work for Max and Dave Fleischer, and created Betty Boop. After that, Grim joined
Disney in 1935 were he worked as the lead animator for the movie "Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs." Natwick ... worked as director for Gulliver's Travels (1939), and worked on a number of short cartoons for television and theatrical release.
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NOTE: This delightful episode gave Mildred Natwick a chance to reprise her role as Gwen Snoop from The Snoop Sisters series, which she did with James MacArthur's mother, Helen Hayes. One amusing note was provided by having Millicent always call the Governor "Sunny." When McGarrett asked him about that, the Governor shyly replied, "I was a very good natured, happy kid."
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Best known for creating the Fleischer Studio's most popular character, Betty Boop, Natwick worked for a number of American animation studios, including the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, the Walter Lantz studio, UPA, and the Richard Williams studio. At Disney, Natwick was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and was instrumental in bringing the titular heroine to life.
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