Beryl Mercer(1876-1939)
- Actress
Too short to be a leading lady,
Beryl Mercer had a very active and
productive career playing motherly characters. She played opposite great leading men, such as Colin Clive,
Robert Montgomery,
James Cagney,
Gary Cooper,
Leslie Howard,
Spencer Tracy, and
Randolph Scott. She also played
Queen Victoria in
The Little Princess (1939)
and
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.