Mildred Dunnock
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Mildred Dunnock (January 25, 1901 – July 5, 1991) was an American stage and film actress.
She received two Academy Award nominations for her supporting appearances in Death of a Salesman (1951) and Baby Doll (1956).
Dunnock's career included three Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Early life
Dunnock graduated from Western High School in Baltimore, Maryland. As she was a student at Goucher College, she became interested in theater, and the Agora dramatic society. She taught English at Friends School of Baltimore and helped with the development of plays.
She earned her master's degree at Columbia University and appeared in a production while she was attending a class in New York.
Personal life and death
Dunnock was married to Keith Urmy, a Manhattan executive, from 1933 to her death. There was only one child at the time. Dunnock died in 1991 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, at the time, she was a resident of nearby West Tilsbury, Massachusetts, although at the time she was a resident of nearby West Tilsbury.
Career
After roles in Broadway productions of Life Begins (1932) and The Hill Between (1938), Dunnock won praise for her performance as a Welsh school teacher in The Corn is Green in 1940 — a role that she performed while she was a full-time teacher at Brearley School. The 1945 film version marked her screen debut. During the 1940s she performed mainly on stage, in such dramas as Another Part of the Forest (1946) and Death of a Salesman (1949) and in the musical Lute Song (1946). She also performed in regional theatrical productions, including those of the Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre.
In 1947, she became a founding member of the Actors Studio.
Dunnock reprised her role as Linda Loman, Willy's wife, in the 1951 film version of Death of a Salesman. She originated for the role of Big Mama in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, although she lost to Judith Anderson. Several of her films include The Trouble with Harry (1955), Love Me Tender (1956), Baby Doll (1956), Peyton Place (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), Butterfield 8 (1960), Something Wild (1961) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). She was the woman in the wheelchair pushed down a flight of stairs to her death by the psychotic villain Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark) in Kiss of Death (1947). She also appeared in guest roles on numerous TV series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Ponds Theater, and later in her career, several television movies.
Dunnock was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Death of a Salesman in 1951, and for Baby Doll in 1956. She was also nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Baby Doll, as well as Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Peyton Place in 1957.
In 1966, she played Linda Loman for the third time in the television film adaptation of Death of a Salesman, alongside her original Broadway co-star, Lee J. Cobb. This earned Dunnock a nomination for an Emmy Award in 1967, in the category of Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama.
Her final film was The Pick-up Artist (1987), which starred Robert Downey, Jr. and Molly Ringwald.
Dunnock has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures, at 6613 Hollywood Boulevard. She is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, which she was inducted into in 1983.