Mercedes McCambridge
Birthday: 16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
Birth Name: Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
Height: 160 cm
Mercedes McCambridge is a highly-talented radio performer who won a best supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut.Mercedes McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Marie (Mahaffry) and John Pat ...Show More
[on Joan Crawford] She was a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
[on Joan Crawford] She was a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
[on Nicholas Ray]: I think his films probably showed his great restlessness, his moroseness, his vul Show more
[on Nicholas Ray]: I think his films probably showed his great restlessness, his moroseness, his vulnerability, the rawness of his nature, the occasional tenderness, which was very profound - but that that's just my observation of watching a man walk around the set. Hide
No it wasn't. Finish your popcorn.
No it wasn't. Finish your popcorn.
One of the most destructive things in my life was the kind of parts I played in pictures. I studied Show more
One of the most destructive things in my life was the kind of parts I played in pictures. I studied Shakespeare and the classics, and I end up shooting Joan Crawford and killing a horse that Elizabeth Taylor was in love with. I'm serious. I played the worst harridans, the most hard-bitten women, the absolute heavies, and it just about did me in. Hide
[on Johnny Guitar (1954)] When you are as big a star as Joan Crawford was in those days, you don't a Show more
[on Johnny Guitar (1954)] When you are as big a star as Joan Crawford was in those days, you don't allow anybody to photograph you outside. Not in harsh light, and only in long, long, long shots. If you are a cameraman and you think you are going to get any closer than the length of a football field to take pictures of Miss Crawford, in anything but elaborately diffused interior light, you had better get out of show business, and a few of them had to. Hide
Mercedes McCambridge's FILMOGRAPHY
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Mercedes McCambridge'S roles
Luz Benedict
Pazuzu
Miss Van Campen
