Mary Jerrold

{{Short description|English actress (1877–1955)}}

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| image = Actress_Mary_Jerrold.jpg

| caption = Jerrold by Norman Parkinson, 1954

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| name = Mary Jerrold

| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|12|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|3|3|1877|12|4|df=y}}

| death_place = London, England

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| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1896–1955

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Mary Jerrold (4 December 1877 – 3 March 1955) was an English actress.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13655|title=Mary Jerrold|access-date=2010-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021220145/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13655|archive-date=2012-10-21|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/d0y/mary-jerrold|title=Mary Jerrold - Theatricalia}} She was married to actor Hubert Harben, and mother of actress Joan Harben and celebrity chef Philip Harben.{{cite web|url=http://www.cooksinfo.com/philip-harben|title=Philip Harben|first=Oulton|last=Randal|date=8 September 2005 |website=Cook's Info |access-date=2023-10-01}}

She made her London stage debut as Prudence Dering in Mary Pennington Spinster (1896); and played Martha Brewster for three and a half years in the original West End production of Arsenic and Old Lace, opening in 1942.{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/4810007/TVs-first-masterchef.html |title = TV's first masterchef|date = 2000-08-23|last1 = Brandenburger|first1 = Caroline}}{{cite web| url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/jerrold-mary-1877-1955| title = Jerrold, Mary (1877–1955) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}}{{Cite web | url=http://garrick.ssl.co.uk/names/SJE003 |title = CollectionsOnline | Name}} In 1922, in a stage production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Jerrold became one of the oldest actresses cast as Elizabeth Bennet, at age 44. In the play, she acted opposite her husband, cast as Mr. Collins.{{Cite book|last=Looser|first=Devoney|title=The Making of Jane Austen|location=Baltimore, MD|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2017|page=106|isbn=978-1421422824}} She appeared in Molly Keane's Ducks and Drakes in 1941. In 1946 she starred in the West End melodrama But for the Grace of God by Frederick Lonsdale. In 1951 she played the lead role in Kenneth Horne's comedy And This Was Odd at the Criterion Theatre. In 1953 she appeared in A Day by the Sea by N.C. Hunter.