Personal Info
Birth date
1910-08-30 (114 Years)
Day of death
1941-05-06
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Darlington, Durham, England, UK
Also known as
Mary Elizabeth Lawson
Mary Elizabeth Beaumont
Mary Lawson
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Elizabeth Lawson (30 August 1910 – 6 May 1941) was a stage and film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her performances on stage and screen, Lawson was known for her romantic affairs, including with tennis player Fred Perry and her future husband, the married son of the Dame of Sark. Lawson and her husband died in the Second World War during a German bombing raid on Liverpool.
Filmography
Scrooge
5.967
Overview:
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.Cotton Queen
5.3
Overview:
The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.A Fire Has Been Arranged
5.8
Overview:
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.Falling in Love
NYR
Overview:
British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.D’Ye Ken John Peel?
5.5
Overview:
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.Things Are Looking Up
6
Overview:
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.Radio Pirates
7.5
Overview:
Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.Oh, Boy!
NYR
Overview:
A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...Acting
1938Oh, Boy! as June Messenger
1937Cotton Queen as Joan Todcastle
1936House Broken as Angela Macgregor
1935Can You Hear Me, Mother? as Mary Warner
1935Scrooge as Poor Man's Wife
1935Radio Pirates as Unknown
1935D’Ye Ken John Peel? as Toinette
1935Things Are Looking Up as Mary Fytte
1935A Fire Has Been Arranged as Betty
1934Falling in Love as Ann Brent
1934Colonel Blood as Susie