Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis
(
25 November
1904
-
2 February
1972
) was an
American
actress
. She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in
Chicago, Illinois
. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career. In the 1950s, she began appearing in movies as a character actress, most notably in
North By Northwest
and
To Catch a Thief
. She appears in both of these films with
Cary Grant
. In
North By Northwest
she plays his mother and in
To Catch a Thief
she plays
Grace Kelly
's mother. In real life she was 10 months younger than Grant. She married three times. Her
autobiography
, titled
You Won't Be So Pretty (But You'll Know More)
was published in 1954. Landis died of
cancer
in
Danbury, Connecticut
. Landis, Jessie Royce Landis, Jessie Royce Landis, Jessie Royce
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