Mabel Albertson

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Biography

When, at 50, Mabel Albertson was given the supporting role of Mrs. Carter, young actress 'Aileen Stanley Jr.' but without much success. Ironically, it was the film business that had previously rejected her which would make her unforgettable from the early 1950s to the late 1970s when Alzheimer's Disease put an and end to a long and fruitful career.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·director
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 24 July 1901
  • Place of birth
  • Haverhill· Massachusetts
  • Death date
  • 1982-09-28
  • Death age
  • 81
  • Place of death
  • Santa Monica· California
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Children
  • Patricia Englund·George Englund
  • Spouses
  • Ken Englund

Movies

TV

Trivia

Often erroneously described as a sister of actor Frank Albertson. Mabel Albertson and her actor brother Jack Albertson were born and raised in Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Their mothers maiden name was Kraft. Frank Albertson was a native of Minnesota, raised there and in Washington, by parents of Irish heritage. His mothers maiden name was Healy.

Former mother-in-law of Cloris Leachman.

Mother of George Englund.

Born in Essex Co. and died in Los Angeles Co., daughter of Russian Jewish immigrant parents Leopold Albertson, a shoemaker born in Russia on 14 May 1880, and wife (married in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, 25 Dec 1900) Flora Kraft, born in Russia on 25 Dec 1879 and died in Los Angeles Co., CA, 30 Jun 1955, who married secondly in Lynn, Essex Co., MA, 1 June 1910 Alexander Eliss Ehrlich, a barber born in Russia 5 Aug 1884 and died in Los Angeles Co., CA, 26 Jan 1973.

Her first husband Harold Austin Ripley (Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, 1908 - 1987) was the son of William Chauncey Ripley (b. Montague, Franklin Co., MA, 1879) and wife Ella May (b. 1882). They had a daughter Patricia Ripley, married, and a son George Howe Ripley.

Aunt of Maura Dhu Studi.

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