Stothart Mary

American actress, a child star as one of the Wolfe sisters from vaudeville and the old Biography silent films with the Gish sisters. She was the Mennens Baby Powder girl in magazine ads in 1903/04, and in 1910, at age eight, starred as Jack in the first full-length film, with hand-colored frames, "Jack and the Beanstock." Mary married to Herb Stothart, head of the music division of MGM who won the Oscar for his score of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939 (and was later widowed). She knew everyone in the early days of Hollywood and had wonderful anecdotes of her life. Read less