Mary Jerrold

Mary Jerrold (4 December 1877 – 3 March 1955) was an English actress.

[3] She made her London stage debut as Prudence Dering in Mary Pennington Spinster (1896); and played Martha Brewster for three and a half years in the original West End production of Arsenic and Old Lace, opening in 1942.

[4][5][6] In 1922, in a stage production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Jerrold became one of the oldest actresses cast as Elizabeth Bennet, at age 44.

In 1946 she starred in the West End melodrama But for the Grace of God by Frederick Lonsdale.

In 1951 she played the lead role in Kenneth Horne's comedy And This Was Odd at the Criterion Theatre.

In The Sketch , 15 September 1897