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Winsome Mary Odette shed her own name of ยป roimboult soon after she becami screenstar, bul she will never lose the i ivacitj and bright] which is her French birthright.
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calls her; this demure little lad) the big expressive dark eyes and brown worn always parted in the centre. She is only a little over tw< and has been a film player shut she was en, making her first appearances 'ombey and Son and The Greatest ii in the World.
lite an experienced actress she was, even then, for Odette Goimboult had been a public favourite for fully halfa-dozen years. She could dance almost ion as .she could toddle and was such a fairy-like little maid that she always selected to play this or that i spirit in various pantomimes and plays.
(Her here in England Mary Odette's first claim to fame came when she played the child in *' The Death of Tintageles " at the St. James, and was kissed and congratulated by no end of celebrities, amongst whom was Bernard Shaw.
Mary, who could even then be very , serious on occasions, hailed G.B.S. at once as a fellow-vegetarian and their conversation was most enlightening.
" On Trial " next gave her an emotional role which was her last for time, for she took so kindly to screenwork that she had little time for the stage. Like most very young artists, Mary delighted in dramatic, forceful parts; she had to be bribed with one after her own heart to induce her to play ingenues.
The wife in Tom Sails, and the passion-swept " Caterina " of Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, are amongst her favourites. Mary has great facial powers of expression ; she has also a certain force and temperament that enables her to freely assume a dozen and one different identities. She is a great lover of the out-of-doors, and likes swimming, tennis, and, of course, dancing. She rides too, and this came about through one of her film roles, for A. E. Matthews, the stage actor taught her when they played together in The Castle of Dreams.
Otherwise she lives very quietly in Brighton with her mother, and is only rarely seen in town. Mary Odette's films make a formidable list; these are, besides those mentioned above : Lady Clare, Spinner ()' Dreams, The Way of an Eagle, The Greatest Wish in the World, Peace, The Wages of Sin, Whosoever Shall Offend, As He Was Born, The Top Dog, Enchantment, 1 lie Breed of the Trcshams, Inheritance, John Hcriot's Wife, As God Made Her, All Roads Lead to Calvary, The Lion's Mouse, With All Her Heart, The Wonderful Year, Edmund A ciin, and Eugene Aram, which she has only recently completed. She has
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Mary Odette came to England when quite a baby and has done most of her screenwork here.
Reading downwards : Mary Odette;
Mary as "Anne Danbx" in "Edmund
Kean," and as "Ronnie" in " With All
Her Heart."
travelled to Holland and back to France again for her more recent pictures, but England is her permanent home and she will never desert us for very long. Mary Odette's performance in The Faithful Heart on the stage last year showed that her screenwork had, if anything, improved her stage technique. She was dubbed " Everyman's dream daughter " by a very well-known critic.