When her Hollywood career began in 1934, Mary Nash was already a veteran performer, having appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway. Following a brief appearance as a dancer in 1904, she joined Ethel Barrymore in a 1905 off- Broadway production, 'Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire'. This was followed by 'Captain Jinks' and 'The Silver Box' with the same company,...
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[on her role as Anna Valeska in the play Captain Applejack] You don't know what fun it is. It feels, every night, as if I were stepping forth to a party. All the sobbing and gnashing of teeth that I have been doing had almost worn me out, and this part came along like a gust of wind that could blow you away if you'd let it, but it is very refreshing, just the same. It is perfectly true that emotional roles do exhaust you. I used to leave the theater tired to death. I don't know what fatigue means in this part.