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Beryl Mercer (13 August 1882 – 28 July 1939) was an actress of stage and screen who was based in the United States.〔(Beryl Mercer bio @ allmovie.com )〕 ==Life== Beryl Mercer was born to British parents in Seville on 13 August 1882. Her father was Edward Sheppard Mercer, said to be Spanish despite his name, and her mother was the actress Beryl Montague.〔 She became a child actor, making her debut on 14 August 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Yarmouth, when she was four. She returned to the stage when she was ten. In London she appeared in ''The Darling of the Gods'' and the production by Oscar Asche of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.〔 In 1906 she appeared as a Kaffir slave in the West End play ''The Shulamite''. She traveled with this play to the USA, where she received good reviews. Mercer was best known as a film actress for her motherly roles. She regularly appeared as a grandmother or cook or maid in some high profile films. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1916 and 1939 but her career was at a peak in the 1930s when she regularly appeared in between five and ten films a year. Mercer appeared in ''Cavalcade'' (1933) as a cook, and in ''Jane Eyre'', ''The Little Minister'', and ''The Richest Girl in the World'' (all 1934). She was in two talkie versions of ''Three Live Ghosts'' (1929 and 1935) and ''The Little Princess'' (1939) as Queen Victoria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beryl Mercer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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