Mary Carlisle

Mary Carlisle is a retired American actress, singer and dancer. Born in Los Angeles, California, she starred in several B moviegrade Hollywood films in the 1930s, having been one of fifteen girls selected as WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1932. She became a centenarian in 2014.

Mary Carlisle was born as Gwendolyn L. Witter on February 3, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was Leona Ella Witter . Being born into a religious family, she was educated in a convent in Boston. Her father died when she was four years old. Leona Witter later remarried, to industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. Carlisle and her mother then relocated to Los Angeles, where her uncle lived. He gave her the opportunity to appear in the Jackie Coogan vehicle Long Live the King in 1923. She was uncredited.

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