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- Height4′ 11″ (1.50 m)
- Too short to be a leading lady, Beryl Mercer had a very active and productive career playing motherly characters. She played opposite great leading men, such as Colin Clive, Robert Montgomery, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Leslie Howard, Spencer Tracy, and Randolph Scott. She also played Queen Victoria in The Little Princess (1939) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lester Solnin & MO840
- SpousesHolmes Herbert(June 3, 1909 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)Maitland Stewart Sabine Pasley(September 14, 1896 - January 6, 1909) (his death)
- She played Queen Victoria in two unrelated films released in 1939: The Little Princess (1939) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
- Her father, Sheppard Mercer, was a diplomat and her mother, Beryl Montague, was an English concert singer.
- Received a medal for entertaining British troops during World War I.
- Early in her career, played boys in several stage productions.
- She appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Cavalcade (1933), and two other nominees: East Lynne (1931) and Smilin' Through (1932).
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