Mary Margaret Wood (February , â€" March , ) was an American actress
of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her
performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama
(â€"), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as
Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (); and her final
screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.Mary
Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene
Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator.Wood
studied voice in France with the legendary soprano Emma Calvé. Wood
was an early member of the Actors' Equity Association, spending nearly
years onstage, beginning in the chorus and becoming known as a
Broadway singer and star. Wood made her stage debut in , as part of
the chorus for Naughty Marietta. In , she starred in Maytime, in which
she introduced the song "Will You Remember". She starred in several
other musicals before playing the role of Portia in a production of
The Merchant of Venice. From the late s until the late s, Wood had
lead roles in musicals staged in London and New York. She was selected
by Noel Coward to star in the original London production of his wildly
successful operetta Bitter Sweet.[citation needed]According to a
profile, Wood also wrote plays "in collaboration with he father and
with Samuel Merwin." She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her
performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama
(â€"), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as
Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (); and her final
screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.Mary
Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene
Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator.Wood
studied voice in France with the legendary soprano Emma Calvé. Wood
was an early member of the Actors' Equity Association, spending nearly
years onstage, beginning in the chorus and becoming known as a
Broadway singer and star. Wood made her stage debut in , as part of
the chorus for Naughty Marietta. In , she starred in Maytime, in which
she introduced the song "Will You Remember". She starred in several
other musicals before playing the role of Portia in a production of
The Merchant of Venice. From the late s until the late s, Wood had
lead roles in musicals staged in London and New York. She was selected
by Noel Coward to star in the original London production of his wildly
successful operetta Bitter Sweet.[citation needed]According to a
profile, Wood also wrote plays "in collaboration with he father and
with Samuel Merwin." She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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