Mercedes McCambridge
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Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television.
Orson Welles dubbed her "the world's best living radio actress." She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for All the King's Boys (1949) and was shortlisted in the same category for Giant (1956).
In The Exorcist (1973), she also played the demon Pazuzu.
Early life
McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois, the daughter of Irish-American Catholic parents Marie (née Mahaffry) and John Patrick McCambridge, a farmer. She graduated from Mundelein College in Chicago.
Personal life
In 1939, McCambridge married William Fifield, her first husband. They had a son, John Lawrence Fifield, who was born in December, 1941. After seven years of marriage, the two divorced in 1946.
In 1950 McCambridge married Canadian Fletcher Markle, an actor/producer/director who produced her in Ford Theater and Studio One. John Markle's son, John, took Markle's name and became known as John Markle later. McCambridge was often hospitalized after bouts of heavy drinking during his marriage and afterwards. After twelve years of marriage, she and Markle divorced in 1962. She began sobriety in 1969 after years with Alcoholics Anonymous.
McCambridge dedicated her time to the non-profit Livengrin Foundation of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, from 1975 to 1982. She began as a volunteer member of the Board of Directors, later becoming president and CEO in charge of the day-to-day operation of the rehabilitation center, which was then a 76-bed residential facility for both male and female alcoholics. Livengrin also works today, with 129 beds and 8 outpatient clinics throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, treating both alcoholism and heroin use. McCambridge, a well-known actress and larger-than-life personality, helped bring public knowledge and understanding of the drug epidemic to the masses, as well as the benefits of seeking medical assistance for the condition. She openly shared her own story of addiction and recovery as a way of reaching those in need of assistance.
Adlai Stevenson's campaign was characterized as a ferocious liberal Democrat.
McCambridge died on March 2, 2004, two weeks before her 88th birthday in La Jolla, California, of natural causes.
After working for Salomon Brothers in New York City, McCambridge's uncle, John Markle, a UCLA economist with a Ph.D. in Economics, joined Little Rock, Arkansas investment company Stephens Inc. in 1979. Markle was a highly respected futures trader and rose quickly in the company's ranks. McCambridge hired Markle to look after her, but the firm discovered in the fall of 1987 that Markle had opened a mystery account in McCambridge's name. Markle had been charging trading losses to the Stephens house account right away, but McCambridge's account was credited to profitable trades to McCambridge's account. Markle was later discovered to have forged his mother's signature in opening the account.
Markle was put on medical leave and later dismissed from his position at Stephens. McCambridge refused to collaborate with Markle and the company in a repayment scheme that would have prevented the matter from becoming public, saying she had done nothing wrong and that Stephens Inc. owes her money. Markle's family died soon after, in November 1987, including wife Christine (age 45) and daughters Amy (age 9) and Suzanne (age 9)—and then himself. He left a note on his crimes and his mother with a long, bitter letter. "You said, 'Well, we should figure it out,'" the letter read, but NO, you refused... You called me a liar, a criminal, and a bum. "I have destroyed your life," I said. Now that I and my entire family are dead—you can have the money,'s good, Mother."
Career
McCambridge began her career as a radio actress in the 1930s while still appearing on Broadway. In 1941, Judy played Judy's companion in A Date with Judy. She appeared in Defense Attorney, a crime drama on ABC from 1951 to 1952.Her other work on radio included:
She appeared on many television mysteries, appeared on television mysteries, and she was a founding cast member of Guiding Light (before the Bauers took over as the central characters). Martha Ellis Bryan appeared on ABC's own show, Defense Attorney, 1951-52.
McCambridge appeared in the CBS soap opera Family Skeleton from June 22, 1953, to March 5, 1954.
In Wire Service, a drama series produced by Desilu Productions, McCambridge portrayed Katherine Wells. McCambridge, George Brent, and Dane Clarke Clark, as reporters for the fictional Trans Globe Wire Service, were the characters in the series.
McCambridge appeared in the first episode of CBS' Lost in Space's "The Space Croppers" (season one), first broadcast on March 30, 1966.
"Darrin Gone" is the title of an episode of Bewitched. McCambridge appeared in "Forgotten," a frenemy of Endora, on ABC on October 17, 1968. (Note: Carlotta was McCambridge's first name.) Endora and Carlotta had made a promise "at the turn of the century" that their first-born children would marry one day. According to the word pact, certain celestial events indicated it was time for the marriage, Carlotta (McCambridge) vanished Darrin and pleaded for Samantha to marry Juke, who was played by veteran character actor Steve Franken.
When she was cast as Sadie Burke opposite Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949), McCambridge's film career flourished. McCambridge received the 1949 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role, and the film received Best Picture of the Year. The Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress and New Star of the Year – Actress – were also recognized for McCambridge's appearance.
In 1954, she co-starred with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in the offbeat western drama Johnny Guitar, now regarded as a cult classic. McCambridge and Hayden have voiced their displeasure with Crawford, with McCambridge describing her as "a mean, tipsy, mighty, rotten egg lady" in a tweet.
In George Stevens' classic Giant (1956), which starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, McCambridge appeared as Luz in the supporting role. She had been nominated for another Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress, but she lost to Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind. In 1959, McCambridge appeared opposite Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and Elizabeth Taylor in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' film version of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer.
In The Exorcist, McCambridge portrayed Pazuzu, the demon possessed the teenage girl Regan (played by Linda Blair). McCambridge continued to eat raw eggs, chain-cigarette, and whisky to make her voice strong and her presence lively, to the point of being as troubling as possible. During recordings, director William Friedkin also ordered that she be tied to a chair, ensuring that the demon appeared to be battling against its restraints. Friedkin said she initially requested no credit for the film, afraid that it would distract attention from Blair's appearance, but later complained about her lack of credit during the film's premiere. When she was properly credited for her vocal performance in the film, her contest with Friedkin and the Warner Bros. ended.
On a Hot Tin Roof as Big Mama, she appeared as Big Mama in the 1970s, opposite John Carradine as Big Daddy.
McCambridge appeared in college plays as a guest artist. She helped bring El Centro College's theater building to life by appearing in a production of The Madwoman of Chaillot in May 1977. Eddie Thomas had known her for many years and she held an actors' workshop for the college students during the week leading up to the opening night. She appeared in 1979 for El Centr's production of The Mousetrap, in which she received top billing despite her character being killed (by actor Jim Beaver) fewer than 15 minutes into the play. In the 1970 production of Come Back, Little Sheba in the University of North Alabama Summer Theatre Productions, she also appeared with longtime character actor Lyle Talbot (of ABC's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).
McCambridge served as the head of Livengrin, a Pennsylvania rehabilitation facility for alcohol addicts, for a short time in the 1970s. She was at the same time finishing touches on her soon-to-becoming autobiography, The Quality of Mercy: An Autobiography (Times Books, 1981) ISBN 0-8129-0945-3.