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Carlotta "Mercy" Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (March
16, 1916 in Joliet, Illinois – March 2, 2004
in La Jolla, California of natural causes) was an
United States|American actor|actress.

McCambridge began as a radio performer in the
1940s and also performed on Broadway. Her big
break in Hollywood came when she was cast opposite
Broderick Crawford in the 1949 film All the King's
Men.  McCambridge cemented her fame when she won
the 1950 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
for her role in the film, which also won Best
Picture for that year.  McCambridge also won the
Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress
and Most Promising Newcomer - Female for that
film. 

In 1954, McCambridge co-starred with Joan Crawford
and Sterling Hayden in the offbeat western drama,
Johnny Guitar, now a cult classic.  The cast also
included a fresh faced Ernest Borgnine.

Her performance in "Johhny Guitar" led to her
co-starring with Burt Lancaster and Walter Mathau
in "The Kentuckian" in which she played, yet again
a woman of evil intent.

McCambridge is today probably best known for
providing the dubbed-in voice of the demonically
possessed character in The Exorcist, acted by
Linda Blair. McCambridge, however, was not
originally credited for the voice in the film's
initial release, probably so as to heighten the
film's initial mystique. McCambridge later went
public in the 70s in her dispute with the film's
creator William Friedkin and the Warner Bros.
brass over her exclusion, and with the help of the
Screen Actors Guild, she was ultimately properly
credited for her vocal work in future releases of
the film.  In interviews with E!'s True Hollywood
Story regarding the supposed "Curse of the
Exorcist", it was said that McCambridge's already
deep voice was made raspy and frightening-sounding
and it "really became the Devil's" via sleep
deprivation, cigarettes, and drinking raw egg
yolks and booze.

McCambridge has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame: one for film|motion pictures, located at
1722 Vine Street, and one for television located
6243 Hollywood Boulevard. 

She told the story of her life in an autobiography
entitled The Quality of Mercy (book)|The Quality
of Mercy (ISBN 0812909453).

==Filmography==
*All the King's Men (1949)
*Inside Straight (1951)
*The Scarf (1951)
*Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951)
*Johnny Guitar (1954)
*The Kentuckian (1955)
*Giant (1956)
*A Farewell to Arms (1957)
*Touch of Evil (1958) (Cameo)
*Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
*Cimarron (1960 movie)|Cimarron (1960)
*Angel Baby (1961)
*Run Home Slow (1965)
*99 Women (1969)
*Justine (1969)
*The Last Generation (1971)
*The Other Side of the Wind (1972) (unfinished)
*Sixteen (1973)
*The Exorcist (1973) (voice only)
*Thieves (1977)
*The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
*Echoes (movie)|Echoes (1983)


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== External links ==
*imdb name|id=0564790|name=Mercedes McCambridge
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/obit.
mccambridge.ap/ CNN obituary of Mercedes
McCambridge