Jessie Royce Landis Overview:

Character actress, Jessie Royce Landis, was born Jessie Royce Medbury on Nov 25, 1896 in Chicago, IL. Royce Landis died at the age of 75 on Feb 2, 1972 in Danbury, CT .

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Jessie Royce Landis was an American stage actress who became busiest in films in her middle forties playing matrons both caustic and dizzy. Her most notable screen appearance was probably as Grace Kelly's mother in "To Catch a Thief", when she stubs out her cigarette in a soft-boiled egg. 

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Jessie Royce Landis Quotes:

Ethel Williams: Waitress, waitress darling. Another round please.
Waitress: Are you sure, madam?
Ethel Williams: Madam is sure.
Waitress: Madam is crocked.


Jessie Stevens: Sorry I ever sent her to finishing school. I think they finished her there.


Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?


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She often stole the show with her blue-bloods and usually played older than she was. She was Cary Grant's mother in North by Northwest (1959) despite the fact she was only seven years older than Grant.

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