Nana Bryant

Nana Irene Bryant (November 23, 1888 – December 24, 1955) was an American film, stage, and television actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1935 and 1955.

Biography Bryant was born on November 23, 1888, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She headed a repertory troupe that toured the middle United States before she became the leading woman in a California stock company. She eventually "became an established favorite in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other Pacific Coast cities" for six years.

In 1935, Bryant went to Hollywood to work under contract to Columbia Pictures Corporation. She remained on the West Coast until 1950, when she began doing a daily television program in New York. She returned to Hollywood in 1953.

On television, she played Connie's mother in The First Hundred Years and Mrs. Nestor in Our Miss Brooks. She also made several appearances as the mother of Margaret Williams (Jean Hagen) during the first three seasons of Make Room for Daddy.

Bryant appeared for the first time in a musical role October 1 to November 1, 1912 in The Man Who Owns Broadway at Morosco's Burbank Theatre, produced by David M. Hartford. Her role was Sylvia, Anthony Bridwell's daughter. She sang "Song of the Soul" in Act 1 and I'm in love with one of the stars. She was accompanied by Sophia Caldwell of Wheeling, West Virginia; Caldwell was then studying for the opera.

Personal life Bryant married writer Ted MacLean when she was 17 years old; they had a son and were divorced in 1915. She later wed actor Cliff Thompson, and they were divorced in 1932. She died on December 25, 1955, in her apartment in Hollywood, California, aged 67.

Partial filmography

Unknown Woman (1935) - Aunt Mary Atlantic Adventure (1935) - Joan Hill (uncredited) A Feather in Her Hat (1935) - Lady Drake Guard That Girl (1935) - Sarah Crime and Punishment (1935) - Madam (uncredited) One Way Ticket (1935) - Mrs. Bourne The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) - Aunt Julie Stewart You May Be Next (1936) - Miss Abbott Lady of Secrets (1936) - Aunt Harriet The King Steps Out (1936) - Louise Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) - Sarah Barstow Blackmailer (1936) - Mrs. Lindsay The Man Who Lived Twice (1936) - Margaret Schuyler Theodora Goes Wild (1936) - Ethel Stevenson Pennies from Heaven (1936) - Miss Howard Let's Get Married (1937) - Mrs. Willoughby The League of Frightened Men (1937) - Agnes Burton The Devil Is Driving (1937) - Mrs. Sanders A Dangerous Adventure (1937) - Marie Counsel for Crime (1937) - Mrs. Maddox Man-Proof (1938) - Meg Swift Midnight Intruder (1938) - Mrs. John Clark Reitter Sr. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) - Mrs. Thatcher Mad About Music (1938) - Louise Fusenot Sinners in Paradise (1938) - Mrs. Franklin Sydney Give Me a Sailor (1938) - Mrs. Minnie Brewster Always in Trouble (1938) - Mrs. Minnie Darlington Out West with the Hardys (1938) - Dora Northcote Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938) - Mrs. Henry Peck Swing, Sister, Swing (1938) - Hyacinth Hepburn Lincoln in the White House (1939, Short) - Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited) Street of Missing Men (1939) - Mrs. Putnam Parents on Trial (1939) - Margaret Ames Espionage Agent (1939) - Mrs. Corvall Our Neighbors – The Carters (1939) - Louise Wilcox Brother Rat and a Baby (1940) - Mrs. Harper If I Had My Way (1940) - Marian Johnson A Little Bit of Heaven (1940) - Mom Father Is a Prince (1940) - Susan Bower The Reluctant Dragon (1941) - Mrs. Benchley Nice Girl? (1941) - Mary Peasley Thieves Fall Out (1941) - Martha Matthews One Foot in Heaven (1941) - Mrs. Morris Public Enemies (1941) - Emma The Corsican Brothers (1941) - Madame Dupre Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) - Mrs. Marshall Todwell Get Hep to Love (1942) - Aunt Addie Youth on Parade (1942) - Agatha Frost Thunder Birds (1942) - Mrs. Blake Madame Spy (1942) - Alicia Rolf Hangmen Also Die! (1943) - Mrs. Hellie Novotny Get Going (1943) - Mrs. Daughtery Best Foot Forward (1943) - Mrs. Dalrymple The West Side Kid (1943) - Mrs. Winston Princess O'Rourke (1943) - Mrs. Mulvaney (uncredited) The Song of Bernadette (1943) - Mere Imbert (uncredited) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) - Mrs. Langdon Jungle Woman (1944) - Miss Gray - Nurse Bathing Beauty (1944) - Dean Clinton Take It or Leave It (1944) - Miss Burke Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944) - Nurse Can't Help Singing (1944) - Mrs. Carstairs (uncredited) Brewster's Millions (1945) - Mrs. Gray Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) - Mrs. H. Davenport Drew Black Market Babies (1945) - Mrs. Grace Andrews The Virginian (1946) - Mrs. Wood (uncredited) The Runaround (1946) - Mrs. Mildred Hampton Big Town (1946) - Mrs. Crane The Perfect Marriage (1947) - Corinne Williams Millie's Daughter (1947) - Mrs. Cooper Austin The Big Fix (1947) - Mrs. Carter Possessed (1947) - Pauline Graham (uncredited) The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947) - Mrs. Cornelius Belmont Sr., in 'Fabulous Joe' The Fabulous Joe (1947) - Mrs. Belmont The Unsuspected (1947) - Mrs. White Her Husband's Affairs (1947) - Mrs. Winterbottom Dangerous Years (1947) - Miss Templeton Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1948, Short) - Miss Turlock (uncredited) Reaching from Heaven (1948) - Kay Bradley On Our Merry Way (1948) - Housekeeper (deleted sequence) (uncredited) Stage Struck (1948) - Mrs. Howard Eyes of Texas (1948) - Hattie Waters Lady at Midnight (1948) - Lydia Forsythe Inner Sanctum (1948) - Mrs. Mitchell The Return of October (1948) - Cousin Therese The Kissing Bandit (1948) - Nun (uncredited) Ladies of the Chorus (1948) - Mrs. Adele Carroll State Department: File 649 (1949) - Peggy Brown Hideout (1949) - Sybil Elwood Kaymeer The Lady Gambles (1949) - Mrs. Dennis Sutherland The Blonde Bandit (1950) - Mrs. Henley Key to the City (1950) - Mrs. Cabot (uncredited) I Was a Shoplifter (1950) - Aunt Clara (uncredited) A Modern Marriage (1950) - Mrs. Brown Three Secrets (1950) - Mrs. Gilwyn, Supervisor of 'The Shelter' (uncredited) Let's Dance (1950) - Mrs. Bryant (uncredited) Harvey (1950) - Mrs. Hazel Chumley The Du Pont Story (1950) - Elizabeth du Pont A Modern Marriage (1951) Follow the Sun (1951) - Sister Beatrice Only the Valiant (1951) - Mrs. Drumm Bright Victory (1951) - Mrs. Claire Nevins Geraldine (1953) - Dean Blake About Mrs. Leslie (1954) - Mrs. McKay The Outcast ( The Fortune Hunter) (1954) - Mrs. Banner The Private War of Major Benson (1955) - Mother Redempta