Mary Jane Irving was an American

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 actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1917 and 1938.

Biography

Born in Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina

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, Irving began her career as a child actor

Child actor

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 in silent film

Silent film

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s. A popular child actor, Irving was relegated to secondary roles as a teen and, after her marriage to screenwriter Robert Carson

Robert Carson (writer)

Robert Carson was an American film and television screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer, who won an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of A Star Is Born. He was married to Mary Jane Irving, a former child actress.-Film screenwriting credits:*A Star Is Born, 1937...

 in 1938, she retired from films.

Seven months after her husband's death, Irving died in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1917	The Square Deal Man	Blossom - the child
1918	The One Woman	Girl
	An Alien Enemy	Fräulein Bertha Meyer
	Patriotism	Mimi
	The White Lie	Mary Jane
	The Heart of Rachael	Rachael's daughter
	The Temple of Dusk	Blossom
1919	Will You Be Staying for Supper?
	The Brand	The Child
	Tangled Threads	Little Barbara
	The Woman Michael Married	Girl
	The Westerners	Little Molly Welch
	The Gray Horizon	Kenneth Furthman
	Desert Gold	The Child
1920	Live Sparks	Undetermined Role
	The Luck of Geraldine Laird	Child
	A Woman Who Understood	Peggy Knight
1921	The Home Stretch	Gwen Duffy
	A Certain Rich Man	Young Janet Barclay
	A Broken Doll	Rosemary
1922	The Cradle	Doris Harvey
	Travelin' On	Mary Jane Morton
	When Romance Rides	Bostie Bostil
	Golden Dreams	Child Clown	Credited as Jane Irving
	The Top of New York	Susan Gray
	Borderland	Totty
	Heart's Haven	Ella Laird
1923	Lost and Found on a South Sea Island Lost and Found on a South Sea Island Lost and Found on a South Sea Island is a 1923 drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The movie was filmed on location in Tahiti. One reel from this film survives according to a new bio on director Raoul Walsh.-Plot:...	Baby Madge	Alternative titles: Captain Blackbird Lost and Found Passion of the Sea
	Little Church Around the Corner	Little Hetty (As a child)
	An Old Sweetheart of Mine	Mary Ellen Anderson (As a girl)
	Cordelia the Magnificent	François
	The Age of Desire	Margy (age 10)
	The Light That Failed	Young Maisie
1924	The Stranger	Maizie Darrant
	Fair Week	Tinkle
	Good Bad Boy	Judge Fawcett's daughter
1925	The Golden Bed The Golden Bed The Golden Bed is a 1925 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Prints of the film survive in the film archive at George Eastman House.-Cast:* Lillian Rich - Flora Lee Peake* Henry B...	Margaret (As a child)	Uncredited
	The Shining Adventure	Lamey
	Sky's the Limit	Richard Hamilton's daughter
	The Tower of Lies	Little girl
	The Splendid Road	Hester Gephart
1926	Lovey Mary	Asia	Alternative title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
	Scotty of the Scouts	Mary Andrews
	The Flaming Forest The Flaming Forest __notoc__The Flaming Forest is a film directed by Reginald Barker, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Antonio Moreno and Renée Adorée....	Ruth McTavish
1927	Night Life	Daughter of War Profiteer
1929	The Godless Girl The Godless Girl The Godless Girl is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film.-Production background:...	The Victim
1930	The Florodora Girl	Vibart Child	Alternative title: The Gay Nineties
	Tom Sawyer	Mary
1932	Without Honor	Bernice Donovan	Alternative title: Without Honors
	Arsène Lupin	Marie
	Probation	Gwen	Alternative title: Second Chances
	Mother's Holiday	The Daughter
1933	Malay Nights	Salvation Lass	Alternative title: Shadows of Singapore
1934	Student Tour	Student	Uncredited
	Gunfire	Sally Moore
1936	Follow the Fleet Follow the Fleet Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in small supporting roles...		Uncredited
1937	A Star Is Born A Star Is Born (1937 film) A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who...		Uncredited
1938	Having Wonderful Time Having Wonderful Time Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 romantic comedy film released by RKO Radio Pictures.-Plot summary :A bored New York office girl , goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noise, busy, city life and finds a handsome waiter , and they fall in...	Camp Guest	Uncredited

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