Mary Orr Denham; playwright & actress (her short story became All About Eve)
Hyfler/Rosner
October 1, 2006 Sunday
Late Edition - Final
HEADLINE: Paid Notice: Deaths
DENHAM, MARY ORR
DENHAM--Mary Orr Actress and author, died September 22, 2006
at age 94. She was preceded in death by her husband,
Reginald Denham, with whom she collaborated on writing
scripts for the theater, notably ''Wallflower'' which
premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theater in 1944. She
published many works of her own including the short story
''The Wisdom of Eve'' which appeared first in 1947 in
Cosmopolitan Magazine and resulted in the 1950 Academy Award
winning movie ''All About Eve.'' Mary is survived by nieces,
Lenschen Witte and Jessica Ivan of Ohio, and step
grandchildren Tamara Ustinov, Mark Warrington and Elizabeth
Warrington of the UK. Services will be private.
MGW
scrawled:
> DENHAM--Mary Orr Actress and author, died September 22, 2006
> at age 94. She was preceded in death by her husband,
> Reginald Denham, with whom she collaborated on writing
> scripts for the theater, notably ''Wallflower'' which
> premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theater in 1944. She
> published many works of her own including the short story
> ''The Wisdom of Eve'' which appeared first in 1947 in
> Cosmopolitan Magazine and resulted in the 1950 Academy Award
> winning movie ''All About Eve.'' Mary is survived by nieces,
> Lenschen Witte and Jessica Ivan of Ohio, and step
> grandchildren Tamara Ustinov, Mark Warrington and Elizabeth
> Warrington of the UK. Services will be private.
I'm involved in an organization that has a person who's actions
prompted me to insist that a co-director absolutely *must* see All
About Eve. Art imitates life :-(
--
MGW
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> DENHAM--Mary Orr Actress and author, died September 22, 2006
> at age 94. She was preceded in death by her husband,
> Reginald Denham, with whom she collaborated on writing
> scripts for the theater, notably ''Wallflower'' which
> premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theater in 1944.
The IBDB has two pages for her - one for her writing credits and one
for her acting credits. They're most likely the same person, especially
since she acted in one of her own plays:
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=7610
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=55194
Interesting that, aside from "Wallflower" (which ran for 5 months), her
other plays (as a playwright) were flops - 3 shows that had a total of
14 performances.
One other interesting note is that she played Miss Swift in the
original cast of "The Desperate Hours." That play was in the news just
last week due to the death of its author, Joseph Hayes.
IMDB credits (as a writer):
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0650581/
-Tim
