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Mari Aldon is a Actor Lituanienne born on 18 november 1925 at Tauragė (Lituanie)

Mari Aldon

Mari Aldon
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Birth name Mari A. Aldon
Nationality Lituanie
Birth 18 november 1925 at Tauragė (Lituanie)
Death 31 october 2004 (at 78 years) at Las Vegas (USA)

Mari Aldon (1925–2004) was a Lithuanian-born American actress. After making her screen debut in a minor role in The Locket (1946) she gradually evolved to playing supporting or lead roles. Her most notable performance was starring opposite Gary Cooper in the 1951 Western Distant Drums. By the mid-1950s she was appearing either in B Pictures like the British thriller Mask of Dust (1954) or in supporting roles in more expensive films such as David Lean's Summertime (1955). After this point she worked largely in television.

She was the wife of film director Tay Garnett.

Biography

Mari Aldon fut l'épouse du réalisateur Tay Garnett de 1953 à 1977. Celui-ci la poussa à devenir actrice, alors qu'elle n'avait qu'une formation de danseuse.

Elle ne tourna que quelques rôles mineurs, à l'exception de celui que lui offrit Raoul Walsh dans Les Aventures du capitaine Wyatt où elle fut la partenaire de Gary Cooper.

Dès 1950, elle se tourna vers la télévision. Elle apparut dans plusieurs séries célèbres, comme Bonanza et Perry Mason.

Elle revint au cinéma, discrètement, pour y tourner deux autres films majeurs signés Mankiewicz et David Lean.

Best films

Distant Drums (1951)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Mari Aldon (12 films)

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Actress

Live a Little, Love a Little, 1h30
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Rudy Vallée, Don Porter, Dick Sargent, Sterling Holloway
Roles Minor Role (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.850532.850532.850532.850532.85053
Greg Nolan (Elvis) is a newspaper photographer who lives a carefree life—that is, until he encounters an eccentric, lovelorn woman named Bernice (Carey) on the beach. Bernice assumes different names and personalities whenever the mood hits her. (She introduces herself to Greg as "Alice" but she's known to the delivery boy as "Susie" and to the milkman as "Betty.")
Summertime
Summertime (1955)
, 1h39
Directed by David Lean
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Darren McGavin, Isa Miranda, Mari Aldon, Gino Cavalieri
Roles Phyl Yaeger
Rating70% 3.547093.547093.547093.547093.54709
The story focuses on Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn), a single, middle-aged elementary school secretary (she refers to her position as "a fancy secretary") from Akron, Ohio. She is on her summer vacation and is now enjoying her lifelong dream of a vacation in Venice after saving up money for the past few years for the big trip. During the water bus ride to the Pensione Fiorini, she meets two fellow Americans, Lloyd (MacDonald Parke) and Edith (Jane Rose) McIlhenny. At the hotel, they are greeted by Signora Fiorini (Isa Miranda), a widow who transformed her home into a pensione after World War II. Also staying at the property are Eddie Yaeger (Darren McGavin), a young American painter studying art, and his wife Phyl (Mari Aldon).
The Barefoot Contessa, 2h8
Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, La provence, Films about television
Actors Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien, Olga San Juan, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi
Roles Myrna
Rating68% 3.448583.448583.448583.448583.44858
Down on his luck, veteran movie director and writer Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart) is reduced to working for abusive, emotionally stunted business tycoon Kirk Edwards (Warren Stevens), who has decided he wants to produce a film to stroke his monumental ego. Looking for a fresh leading lady, they discover, in a Madrid night club, stunning dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner), a blithe but proud spirit who likes to go barefoot and has a troubled home life.
Mask of Dust, 1h19
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films
Actors Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, Peter Illing, Alec Mango, George Coulouris, James Copeland
Roles Patricia Wells
Rating49% 2.487752.487752.487752.487752.48775
A freestyle racing driver must choose between his love for racing, and his wife. His friends's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival...
This Woman Is Dangerous, 1h40
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey
Roles Ann Jackson
Rating60% 3.047443.047443.047443.047443.04744
Beth Austin (Joan Crawford) is the leader of a hold-up gang and the mistress of its most cold-blooded killer Matt Jackson (David Brian). In New Orleans, the group robs a casino by impersonating police officers. After taking in a haul of $90,000 ($791,000 in 2013 dollars), she tells Matt that she has suffered from failing eyesight and needs to travel to an eye clinic in Indiana to have an advanced operation. While initially mad that she is leaving the group, he promises to lie low until she returns.
Distant Drums, 1h41
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carl Harbaugh, Ray Teal
Roles Judy Beckett
Rating63% 3.1964753.1964753.1964753.1964753.196475
In 1840, U.S. Army General Zachary Taylor sends out naval Lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island home, where the reclusive Captain Quincy Wyatt lives with a 5-year-old son.
The Tanks Are Coming, 1h30
Directed by D. Ross Lederman, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Political films
Actors Steve Cochran, Philip Carey, Mari Aldon, Paul Picerni, Harry Bellaver, Robert Horton
Roles Patricia Kane
Rating61% 3.09973.09973.09973.09973.0997
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un sergent se retrouve à la tête d'une escouade de chars et tente d'inculquer à ses hommes l'esprit de groupe.
Tomorrow Is Another Day, 1h30
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal, Morris Ankrum, John Kellogg
Roles Dance Hall Hostess
Rating70% 3.5431053.5431053.5431053.5431053.543105
Convicted of murder at age 13, Bill Clark is freed after 18 years behind bars. He meets a taxi dancer, Catherine Higgins, but when her New York City police detective boyfriend George Conover catches them together, Bill is knocked out. When he awakens, Conover has been shot.
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, 1h27
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey, Ted de Corsia, Michael Tolan, Scott Forbes
Rating65% 3.2906653.2906653.2906653.2906653.290665
During 1920s, before the 1944 California prison reform, Warden Ben Rickey (Ted De Corsia) rules Folsom Prison with ruthless control. He believes that prisons should be used more for punishing the captive convicts, rather than using the time that they would spend behind the walls of the prison as an opportunity to reform their unruly behavior and repeated returns to a life behind bars. His methods of control are violent, torturous, and meant to beat the prisoners into submission.
A Woman's Vengeance, 1h36
Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Humphreys
Roles Girl (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4398953.4398953.4398953.4398953.439895
Henry Maurier rebounds from the death of wife Emily by marrying his brother-in-law's mistress, upsetting another woman who is in love with him. Suspicions grow that Henry might have hurried along his wife's death with poison.
The Locket
The Locket (1946)
, 1h25
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond, Sharyn Moffett, Ricardo Cortez
Roles Mary (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5440053.5440053.5440053.5440053.544005
A story told in a number of flashbacks from different points of view, this psychological drama tells the story of a bride-to-be (Day) who, as a child, was falsely accused of theft. She grows up to become a kleptomaniac, inveterate liar, and eventually a murderess.