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 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
[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
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
No it wasn't. Finish your popcorn.
No it wasn't. Finish your popcorn.
[on Joan Crawford] She was a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
[on Joan Crawford] She was a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady.
Mercedes McCambridge's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (105)
Mercedes McCambridge'S roles
Miss Van Campen
Pazuzu
Luz Benedict
