Mary Dunn (other)
Mary Dunn may refer to: * Marie Prevost (1896–1937), Canadian-American actress born Mary Bickford Dunn *Mary Dunn (writer) (1900–1958), British author who created Lady Blanche Addle *Mary Dunn (yoga) (1942–2008), American Iyengar yoga instructor *Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), American historian *Mary Dunn (sports executive) Mary Dunn ( Armitage; February 7, 1903January 10, 1965) was a Canadian sports executive. She played on the Manitoba Bisons women's ice hockey team while in university, then became an executive with the Winnipeg Women's Senior Hockey League and ...

Marie Prevost
Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121 silent and sound films. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature-length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films: ''The Marriage Circle'' (1924), '' Three Women'' (1924) and '' Kiss Me Again'' (1925). After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenne ...
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Mary Dunn (writer)
Mary Dunn (1900–1958Brown, Michèle, O'Connor Ann (1986). ''Hammer and Tongues: A Dictionary of Women's Wit and Humour.'' ) was an English writer and satirist best known for the Lady Addle books.Muir, Frank (1990). ''The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose.'' Oxford University Press Richard Geoffrey George Price (1957). ''A History of Punch.'' Collins ASIN B000HJN2D6 Selected publications *''Lady Addle Remembers: Being the Memoirs of the Lady Addle of Eigg'' (1936) *''Lady Addle at Home'' (1945) *''The Memoirs of Mipsie (1947) *''Round the Year with Lady Addle'' (1948) *''The World of Lady Addle'' (1986) References 1900 births 1958 deaths English satirists Women satirists 20th-century English women writers {{England-writer-stub ...
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Mary Dunn (yoga)
Mary Louise Palmer Dunn (2 June 1942 – 4 September 2008) was an American instructor in Iyengar Yoga, and a founding member of its institutes in America. She was seen as a teacher's teacher within the tradition. Life and career Dunn was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 2 June 1942 to Mary and William B. Palmer in a house designed for them by Frank Lloyd Wright. After graduating University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964, she married Roger Dunn in 1965 and moved to San Francisco, California in 1967. Her mother was a student of B. K. S. Iyengar and helped bring him to the United States in 1973. She went to Pune each year to study directly under Iyengar. Dunn began learning under Iyengar in 1974, eventually becoming a founding director of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and a co-founder of three Iyengar Yoga Institutes in America, namely San Francisco, New York, and San Diego. Jenny Snick, in ''Yoga Journal'' in 1983, wrote that Dunn looked like a woman li ...
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Mary Maples Dunn
Mary Maples Dunn (April 6, 1931 – March 19, 2017) was an American historian. Born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Dunn graduated from The College of William & Mary in 1954 and received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1959, where she taught and served as dean from 1978 to 1985. She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985. Dunn was also the director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000. She was acting president of Radcliffe College when it merged with Harvard University, and she became the acting dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after the merger. Retired, Dunn became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She was the co-executive officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2002 to 2007. Personal life Mary Maples was born on April 6, 1931, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin to Eva Moore Maples and Frederic Maples who owned a clothing store. She was the second of four children and the only daughter. ...
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