Mary Marlowe

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Contributor Mary Marlowe
Gender Female
Nationality Australian
Date of Birth 18 February 1884
Date of Death 19 February 1962
Functions Actor, Author, Journalist
Notes Born at St Kilda only child of John Shanahan, grazier, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John O'Shanassy. Determined from childhood to go on the stage about 1907 she joined Julius Knight's company as 'Mary Marlowe', the name she was known by thereafter, she went to England in 1910 and, made her London début late that year as Sally in The Man from Mexico. Later she toured with Derwent Hall Caine's company. In March 1912 joined Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan's company in Sydney. On 4 May she was the original Kate Rudd in On Our Selection. In 1913 she sailed for England and from November toured Canada under Louis Meyer's direction. Returning to London in 1916, Marlowe nursed full time for two years She had begun to write while in America and in 1917 published a novel, Kangaroos in King's Land, drawing on her experiences as a struggling young actress. She returned to Australia in 1920 and joined the staff of the Sydney Sun, became dramatic editor and from 1921 as 'Puck' wrote a weekly theatrical column for the Sunday Sun. By 1934 she had published seven more romantic novels. In the 1930s she began to broadcast for Associated Newspapers Ltd and from 1934 gave a regular weekly talk on 2UE. She continued to run a 'Dorothy Dix' column after she retired from the Sun in 1946, to live in her cottage at Newport Beach with her menagerie of cats and dogs. Mary Marlowe died at Rooty Hill on 19 February 1962 and was buried in Mona Vale cemetery.
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