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Mature character actress who specialized in portraying aristocrats and wealthy society matrons. Although Landis appeared in over 45 plays on the Broadway and London stage and made her film debut in 1930, it was not until the 1950s that she gave her most notable film performances. She was twice cast as the mother of Grace Kelly--in Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955), as the caustic mother who stubs out her cigarette in a soft-boiled egg, and again in "The Swan" (1956)....
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Filmography

North By Northwest - ( Clara Thornhill / 1999 / Released / )
Airport - ( Mrs Harriet DuBarry Mossman / 1970 / Released / )
Critic's Choice - ( Charlotte Orr / 1963 / Released / )
Gidget Goes to Rome - ( Aunt Albertina / 1963 / Released / )
Bon Voyage! - ( La Contesse / 1962 / Released / )
Boys' Night Out - ( Ethel Williams / 1962 / Released / )
Goodbye Again - ( Mrs van der Besh / 1961 / Released / )
A Private's Affair - ( Mrs Chapman / 1959 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )
I Married a Woman - ( Mother Blake / 1958 / Released / )
My Man Godfrey - ( Angelica / 1957 / Released / )
The Girl He Left Behind - ( Madeline Sheaffer / 1956 / Released / )
The Swan - ( Princess Beatrix / 1956 / Released / )
To Catch a Thief - ( Mrs Jessie Stevens / 1955 / Released / )
It Happens Every Spring - ( / 1949 / Released / Fox Films, Ltd. )

TV Credits
Ceremony of Innocence ( 1974 / Released ): Actor
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones ( 1971 / Released ): Actor
Ironside ( 1967 / Released ): Actor
The Doctor ( 1952 / Released ): Actor
The Chevrolet Tele-Theater ( 1948 / Released ): Actor

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Mature character actress who specialized in portraying aristocrats and wealthy society matrons. Although Landis appeared in over 45 plays on the Broadway and London stage and made her film debut in 1930, it was not until the 1950s that she gave her most notable film performances. She was twice cast as the mother of Grace Kelly--in Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955), as the caustic mother who stubs out her cigarette in a soft-boiled egg, and again in "The Swan" (1956). Landis also played Cary Grant's sophisticated mother in "North By Northwest" (1959), although she was ten months younger than him.

Profession(s):
Actor
Sometimes Credited As:
Jessie Royce Medbury
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Family
husband:J F R Seitz (second husband; Major General; survived Landis)

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Education
Chicago Conservatory
Milestones (Back to top)

1970 Last film, "Airport"
1930 Acted in first feature, "Derelict"
1926 Broadway debut in "The Honor of the Family"
First TV appearance on "The Chevrolet Tele-Theater" (1948-50)

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