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Jessie Royce Landis (November 25, 1904 - February 2, 1972) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career. In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as a character actress, most notably in To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief (film)

To Catch a Thief is a 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams , and released by Paramount Pictures....
 (1955
1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
), and North by Northwest
North by Northwest

North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
 (1959
1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
), both starring Cary Grant
Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
. In North by Northwest she played Grant's character's mother (she was only 8 years older than Grant), and in To Catch a Thief she played Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
's mother.






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Jessie Royce Landis (November 25, 1904 - February 2, 1972) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career. In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as a character actress, most notably in To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief (film)

To Catch a Thief is a 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams , and released by Paramount Pictures....
 (1955
1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
), and North by Northwest
North by Northwest

North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
 (1959
1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
), both starring Cary Grant
Cary Grant

Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
. In North by Northwest she played Grant's character's mother (she was only 8 years older than Grant), and in To Catch a Thief she played Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
's mother. She also made many television appearances.

She was married three times. Her autobiography
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
, titled You Won't Be So Pretty (But You'll Know More) was published in 1954. Landis died of cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
 in Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It has an estimated population of 78,736. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County & is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....
, aged 75.

Filmography

  • Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
    Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

    Mr. Belvedere Goes to College is a 1949 in film comedy film starring Clifton Webb as prickly genius Lynn Belvedere. Needing a college degree, Mr....
     (1949)
  • It Happens Every Spring
    It Happens Every Spring

    It Happens Every Spring is a movie which was made in 1949. The story is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the King Kelly....
     (1949)
  • My Foolish Heart
    My Foolish Heart (film)

    My Foolish Heart is an Academy Award-nominated 1949 film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken....
     (1949)
  • To Catch a Thief
    To Catch a Thief (film)

    To Catch a Thief is a 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams , and released by Paramount Pictures....
     (1955)
  • The Swan
    The Swan (film)

    The Swan is a 1956 in film remake by MGM of a 1925 in film film . The film is a romantic comedy directed by Charles Vidor, produced by Dore Schary from a screenplay by John Dighton based on the play by Ferenc Moln?r....
     (1956)
  • My Man Godfrey
    My Man Godfrey (1957 film)

    My Man Godfrey is a 1957 in film comedy film starring June Allyson and David Niven. It is a remake of Gregory La Cava's 1936 in film screwball comedy My Man Godfrey....
     (1957)
  • I Married a Woman
    I Married a Woman

    I Married a Woman is a 1958 in film film. It also features John Wayne in a cameo role as himself. It was filmed in RKO-Scope and black and white except for one of Wayne's two scenes, which was shot in Technicolor....
     (1958)
  • North by Northwest
    North by Northwest

    North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
     (1959)
  • Goodbye Again
    Goodbye Again (1961 film)

    Goodbye Again, also known as Aimez Vous Brahms?, is a 1961 in film France-USA romantic film drama film made by Argus Film and Mercury Productions and released by United Artists....
     (1961)
  • Boys' Night Out
    Boys' Night Out (film)

    Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962 in film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon ....
     (1962)
  • Critic's Choice
    Critic's Choice (1963 film)

    Critic's Choice is a 1963 in film directed by Don Weis.Based on the 1960 Critic's Choice by Ira Levin, the movie starred Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and included Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor and Jerome Cowan in the cast....
     (1963)
  • Gidget Goes to Rome
    Gidget Goes to Rome

    Gidget Goes to Rome is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Cindy Carol as the archetypal high school teen surfer girl originally created by Sandra Dee in the 1959 film Gidget....
     (1963)
  • Airport
    Airport (film)

    Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
     (1970)


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