Spoiler : actress GLADYS GEORGE (1904 – 1954) , who was born on September 13th. 1936 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X (1937) and Love is a Headache. She also appeared in The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Way of All Flesh (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and He Ran All the Way (1951). She played the widow of Miles Archer (Iva Archer) in The Maltese Falcon and Mme. Du Barry in Marie Antoinette. Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story (1951) and in Lullaby of Broadway, as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day's ingenue character.