Mary Antoinette Perry Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Mary Antoinette Perry (June 27, 1888 – June 28, 1946) was an actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards are her namesake.
Following the enduring effects of a stroke she suffered earlier, she gave up her stage acting career in 1927 during a revival of "Electra" in which she played Clytemnestra. She was greatly influenced by actress/playwright Rachel Crothers, who directed her own plays, and decided she wanted to direct as well.
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While in New York, famed Broadway impresario David Belasco, obsessed with her beauty and alabaster complexion, put her on the Broadway stage, where she soon graduated to major starring roles. He lost her, however, to Denver oil, gas and utilities magnate Frank Frueauff. Freuauff left her with a $13-million estate when he died of a heart attack in 1922.
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Stage actress-cum pioneering producer and director known for her great beauty and tough-as-nails demeanor. Began performing on stage at age 15, touring with an uncle's company.
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Had a huge smash with Mary Chase's comedy "Harvey", starring Frank Fay and Josephine Hull, which ran a then-unheard-of 1,775 performances. The play was adapted into an extremely successful film (Harvey (1950)) starring James Stewart and Hull, for which she won a "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar.
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Daughter Margaret Perry confessed that Antoinette was an avid gambler, especially on horses, and when she died she was $300,000 in debt and living on $800 a week from royalties from her stage hit "Harvey".
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Theatre's most coveted annual award - The Tony - was created in her honor, having devoted so much of her life to the pursuit of excellence on the stage
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