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Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 - October 28, 1939) was an Oscar-winning American actress in the silent film era of the late 1910s and 1920s through the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

Career

Brady broke onto the movie scene at the age of 22 in New York City's World Studios, since her father, William A. Brady, was its owner as well as an important theatrical producer in New York.

Her first film was the silent As Ye Sow (1915) as Dora Leland. She acted in more than 50 silent films throughout her career, yet spent most of the 1920s on stage and away from the cinema. She returned to the screen in 1933, landing a role in her first talkie, When Ladies Meet.

It was for her portrayal of Mrs. Molly O'Leary in 1938's In Old Chicago
that she won her Academy Award. Brady's statuette was swiped by an impostor who came onstage to accept the award on the absent actress' behalf. It has never been never recovered and the imposter could never be tracked down.

Before the Academy could do justice and issue a copy of the statuette, Alice Brady died, aged 46, in New York City of cancer on October 28, 1939 (five days before her 47th birthday), shortly after filming Young Mr. Lincoln
with director John Ford.

Academy Awards

Wins:

1937 - Best Supporting Actress
in In Old Chicago

Nominations:

1936 - Best Supporting Actress in My Man Godfrey

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