Mary is a 1931 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the German version of Hitchcock's Murder!, shot simultaneously on the same sets with German actors. The film is based on the play Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, and stars Alfred Abel and Olga Tschechowa.
Mary was a variety-type program briefly broadcast by CBS as part of its 1978-79 fall lineup.
Mary was the attempt by Mary Tyler Moore to return to network television after the triumph of her sitcom (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) from 1970 to 1977. Her sitcom having not been renewed at her request (she didn't want it to get "stale"), she had taken a year off before returning to television to conquer the variety format. She surrounded herself with a highly talented repretory company of young actors and actresses, most notably Swoosie Kurtz, Dick Shawn, Michael Keaton, Merrill Markoe, and David Letterman, an established orchestra led by Alf Clausen, and the well-regarded Tony Stevens dancers, and the program had a light, breezy feel. What it lacked, however, according to the Nielsen ratings, was any appreciable audience. Mary was a total financial disaster and cancelled by CBS after only three programs had been aired. However, Moore was to tweak the format and try it again with a similar program (The Mary Tyler Moore Hour) later in the same season.
Mary was a situation comedy aired in the United States by CBS during the 1985-86 television season.
Mary was first aired in December of 1985. It starred Mary Tyler Moore, marking her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and in the dramatic film Ordinary People, among other projects. After The Mary Tyler Moore Show, her subsequent ventures into series television, the variety show Mary and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which had brought her the greatest television success.
In Mary, she played Mary Brenner, a 40-ish divorcée working at a second rate tabloid, the Chicago Eagle. She had formerly been a high-profile writer at a fashion magazine which had recently gone out of business and was now reduced to writing a consumer-assistance column, "Helpline", helping to expose substandard business practices and products and the often uncaring reaction of government to these problems. Her boss, Managing Editor Frank DeMarco (James Farentino), concentrated on sensationalism as he was convinced as that was what really sold papers. He was also quite a ladies' man, and was attracted to Mary, as she was to him, but she found dealing with that situation to be quite awkward.
Also working at the Eagle were the cynical, chain-smoking columnist Jo Tucker (Katey Sagal), the condescending theater critic Ed LaSalle (John Astin), and Tully (David Byrd), a copy editor who could scarcely function because he was going blind but knew he wasn't going away; his job had strong protection from the union. Neighbors included Susan Wilcox (Carlene Watkins), Mary's good friend, whose fiancé Lester Mintz (James Tolkan) seemed to be somehow "connected".
The program never really found much of an audience; after February, Mary was moved to a different time slot in order to attempt to save it. Susan and Lester were written out and Mary's personal life was generally downplayed in favor of her business one. There were some favorable reviews, although some critics pronounced it as more or less a clone of her previous sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The program was eventually cancelled (at Moore's request) in April 1986.
Mary is a 2005 film written and directed by the controversial American director Abel Ferrara. The film stars Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche, Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, two-time Golden Globe nominee Matthew Modine and Heather Graham. The film premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize as well as 3 smaller awards. The film also played at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, Deauville Film Festival and San Sebastien Film Festival.
After Mary Tyler Moore's long running sitcom ended, she tried to venture in comdey-variety. This was one of her attempts. It follows the same formula used in such shows like Carol Burnett. There are comdey sketches and musical numbers. And also there are behind the scenes, sketches, wherein the cast are not at work, and there is either a comedy routine and/ or musical number, usually done by Mary. Written by
Three characters linked by the mythical Maria Maddalena - Mary Magdalene... Tony Childress, an infamous, egotistical and obsessive actor/director is playing the lead role of Jesus in his controversial new film THIS IS MY BLOOD. When the shoot wraps, Marie Palesi, his lead actress, is left alone in Jerusalem, drained, empty. 'Selfless'. Into the void within her is poured the spirit of Mary Magdalene, and Marie embarks on a profound journey towards enlightenment. Meanwhile, in New York City, tv journalist Ted Younger begins his own quest for spiritual truth through his documentary about the life of Christ. When the premiere of Tony's film becomes the target of bomb threats by the vengeful religious Right, the lives and paths of these three characters come dramatically together. Written by Jason Grimshaw
One copy of this film is known to survive at the Bundesfilmarchiv in Germany.
