Nell Craig
Nell Craig
Best known today for her recurring role as the floor nurse Parker in MGM's Dr. Kildare series, brunette actress Nell Craig had begun her long screen career with Essanay in Chicago in 1913. By 1914, she was starring or co-starring in such melodramas as In the Palace of the King (1915), from F. Marion Crawford's popular novel, and The Breaker (1916). She played a girl detective in the latter and both films were directed by her husband, Fred E. Wright. The 1920s brought mainly supporting roles, notably that of Mary Todd Lincoln opposite George A. Billings in the low-budget Abraham Lincoln (1924), but she was reduced to walk-ons in talkies. Like several of her contemporaries, Craig was rescued by Louis B. Mayer of MGM, who awarded her a player contract. Craig, who also appeared semi-regularly in Paramount's Henry Aldrich series, retired from films in the late '40s and spent her final years as a resident of the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Nell Craig:
- Dr. Kildare's Strange Case with Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore , Laraine Day , Shepperd Strudwick , Samuel S. Hinds , Emma Dunn , Nat Pendleton , Walter Kingsford , Alma Kruger , John Eldredge , Marie Blake , George H. Reed , Paul Porcasi , Frank Orth , Margaret Seddon , Fay Helm , Marcia Mae Jones , Horace McMahon
- The Secret of Dr. Kildare with Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore , Lionel Atwill , Nat Pendleton , Laraine Day , Sara Haden , Samuel S. Hinds , Emma Dunn , Walter Kingsford , Grant Mitchell , Alma Kruger , Robert E. Kent , Marie Blake , Martha O'Driscoll , George H. Reed , Frank Orth , Don "Red" Barry , Byron K. Foulger
- You Can't Take It with You with Jean Arthur , Lionel Barrymore , James Stewart , Edward Arnold , Mischa Auer , Ann Miller , Spring Byington , Samuel S. Hinds , Donald Meek , H.B. Warner , Halliwell Hobbes , Dub Taylor , Mary Forbes , Clarence H. Wilson , Josef Swickard , Ann Doran , Christian Rub , Charles Lane , Harry Davenport , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson , Stanley Andrews , Irving Bacon , Joseph Bernard , Gladys Blake , Ward Bond , James Burke , Eddy Chandler , Eddy Chandler , Wallis Clark , Chester Clute , Dick Curtis , Edgar Dearing , Vernon Dent , Lester Dorr , James Farley , Eddie Fetherstone , James Flavin , Bess Flowers , Byron K. Foulger , Jack Gardner , Robert Greig , Kit Guard , Chuck Hamilton , John Hamilton , Sam Harris , Edward Hearn , Russell Hicks , John Ince , Boyd Irwin , Eddie Kane , Edward Keane , Pert Kelton , Robert F. Kortman , Margaret Mann , Edwin Maxwell , James Millican , Gene Morgan , Edward Sr. Peil , Dick Rush , Harry Semels , Frank Shannon , Edwin Stanley , Rosemary Theby , John Tyrrell , Walter Walker , Pierre Watkin , Pat West , Ian Wolfe , Louis King , Frank Mills , Bruce Mitchell , Betty Farrington
- The Women with Norma Shearer , Joan Crawford , Rosalind Russell , Mary Boland , Joan Fontaine , Paulette Goddard , Virginia Weidler , Lucile Watson , Esther Dale , Ruth Hussey , Mary Beth Hughes , Virginia Grey , Marjorie Main , Cora Witherspoon , Hedda Hopper , Dorothy Adams , Judith Allen , Gertrude Astor , Marie Blake , Betty Blythe , Lillian Bond , Margaret Dumont , Dot Farley , Flora Finch , Theresa Harris , Grace Hayle , Butterfly McQueen , Natalie Moorhead , Aileen Pringle , Dorothy Sebastian , Josephine Whittell , Charlotte Wynters , Carol Hughes
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