Too short to be a leading lady,
Beryl Mercer had a very active and
productive career playing motherly characters. She played opposite great leading men, such as Colin Clive,
Robert Montgomery,
James Cagney,
Gary Cooper,
Leslie Howard,
Spencer Tracy, and
Randolph Scott. She also played
Queen Victoria in
Die kleine Prinzessin (1939)
and
Liebe und Leben des Telefonbauers A. Bell (1939).
She and Holmes Herbert had a daughter, Joan.
