Mary Carlisle : Happy birthday Mary Carlisle!

We wish Ms. Carlisle all our best on her birthday today!

CONGRATULATIONS!! Another milestone event as you turn 101! Thanks dear Mary Carlisle for your delightful and most memorable contributions to the entertainment industry. So glad to hear you are happy and doing well. Wishng you the very best on again this very special occasion. HAPPY 101st BIRTHDAY!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh0j7j2TE4 (highlights of her incredible career)

Mary in 2014!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5s4Z6vFKmw

Jeanne, Gloria, Toby, Mitzi, Eleanor (2), Frances, Deborah, Marion, Alice, Darcey - are adorable.

Happy Birthday!!

Wow! 102 today!!! Happy birthday and all the best!

---

Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop

---

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Thanks dear Mary Carlisle for your wonderful and most memorable contributions to the entertainment industry. Charming and talented Actress. Hope this greeting will again find you happy and ever so well. Wishing you the very best on again this very special occasion. HAPPY 102nd BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Birthday, Mary Carlisle!

There are precious few stars of the 1930s who are still with us today, but Mary Carlisle, born Gwendolyn Witter in Los Angeles 102 years ago today, is still going strong, bless her heart.

The last of the WAMPAS Baby Stars (an annual promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers from 1922-1934 that honored 13 young actresses [the number was 15 in 1932, the year Carlisle was honored] whose careers showed great promise), Carlisle was discovered in 1928 by studio executive Carl Laemmle, Jr. while dining at the Universal Studios commissary. She was just 14.

Mary Carlisle

In 1930, Carlisle signed a one-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, appearing mostly as a dancer in musical shorts, but it was with Paramount Pictures that she would achieve her greatest success. She appeared opposite Bing Crosby in three filmsCollege Humor (1933), Double or Nothing (1937) and Doctor Rhythm (1938)and would go on to appear in more than sixty pictures in the course of her 14-year career, most of them B pictures with titles reminiscent of the early scene in Preston Sturges Sullivans Travels, in which successful but artistically frustrated director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is reminded of some of his greatest successes: Ants in Your Plants of 1939, Hey Hey in the Hayloft, and So Long, Sarong.

Think some of Carlisles pictures couldnt have been plugged right into that dialogue, titles like Hotel Haywire (1937), Ship A Hooey! (1932), and Handy Andy (1934)? But wed pay good money and line up early to see that triple feature tonight, if only some bijou were screening it.

Carlisle was wed to actor James Edward Blakeley (he would go on to become an executive producer at 20th Century-Fox) in 1942 and retired from motion pictures soon thereafter. But more than five dozen pictures is nothing to sneeze at, nor is being vital and alert at the age of 102, which, by all reports, our Mary is.

Happy birthday, Mary! We hope you enjoy a truly grand day!


http://www.cladriteradio.com/happy-birthday-mary-carlisle/

I have been a fan of this lady for about 20 years and am thrilled she is still with us!! Among my favorite movie memorabilia possessions is a Mary Carlisle scrapbook a fan of hers made back in the 1930's - and certainly the photos Miss Carlisle autographed for me back in the 1990's and early 2000's. A fan of hers has a Facebook page for her and she is is apparently quite well and doing nicely at 102. God bless you Mary Carlisle - and certainly happy birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday and all the best!

---

Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop

---

A belated birthday to the eternal Mary Carlisle!!! One of the most beautiful and sweet starlets in film history !!!