Mary Ainslee

Ainslee was a native of Newport News, Virginia,^[1] and the daughter of Mrs. Clifton E. Rudd. She attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School^[2] and Newport News High School.^[3]

Ainslee left Newport News in 1935 to try acting in New York. Before she began working in films, she performed in stock theater^[1] with the Provincetown Players and other groups in the eastern United States.^[4]

Ainslee's film debut was in Fight for Your Lady.^[2] She appeared in several Three Stooges films such as I'll Never Heil Again, In the Sweet Pie and Pie, Hokus Pokus, and He Cooked His Goose.

Ainslee was married to Universal producer John DeSilva.^[2] They were divorced on May 11, 1938.^[4] She married Edwin Hutzler II in 1943^[5] and postponed her career for the duration of the war, planning to return to acting after it ended. They lived in Tampa, Florida, and she took courses at the University of Tampa.^[6] They were divorced on June 17, 1949.^[5]

In the mid-1980s, she suffered a stroke and never fully recovered. She died on November 1, 1991. She was buried in Riverside Memorial Park in Norfolk, Virginia.^{[citation needed]}