MARY CARLISLE who was 104 died yesterday at the Motion Picture Home in California. Though she had not made a movie in 75 years MARY was the very last of the famed Wampas Stars as well as the last (living) actor from the 1933 classic GRAND HOTEL in which she appears at the very end as a new bride arriving at the hotel with her husband for their honeymoon.
with BING CROSBY
Married to onetime actor later production assistant JAMES BLAKELY in 1942, the marriage produced one son. The couple just missed celebrating their 65th anniversary when BLAKELY died in 2007. In the late 1940s & 50s, MARY ran the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon in Beverly Hills.
MARY in 2014