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Mar 27, 2022 · The life of Mary Lee, who died peacefully at home earlier this month, will be celebrated at her funeral on Monday. For Mary Lee it began, like it did for so many child stars, with a talent...
Feb 13, 2017 · Mary Lee South, the mother of Tom Cruise, has died, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. South, 80, died peacefully in her sleep last week. South, who coped with health issues in recent years, was...
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- She Was Dealing with Health Issues in Recent Years
- She Was Responsible For Inspiring Tom Cruise to Act
- South & Cruise’s Father, Thomas Mapother III, Divorced in 1974
- She Later Married John South, Who Reportedly Refused to Join Scientology
People Magazine reportsthat South died peacefully in her sleep. The magazine reports that she had health issues in recent years. Cruise’s three sisters joined the actor at a memorial for their mother, who was a special education teacher. She was born Mary Lee Pfeiffer in Louisville, Kentucky. In May 2016, The Daily Mail published photosof South in ...
In a 1986 interview with Rolling Stone, South said that she was responsible for Cruise being inspired to act. She thought she had the talent to break into Hollywood herself. “I was always interested in theater, but I never did anything with it,” she told Rolling Stone. “When I was growing up, if you went to Hollywood, that was really risque. I woul...
South was married to Cruise’s father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. They divorced in 1974. His father died from cancer in 1984. Cruise once described his father as a “bully” in an interview with People. “He was a bully and a coward,” Cruise said of his father in 2006 Parade Magazine interview. “He was the kind of person where,...
South married John “Jack” South in 1978, when Cruise was 16, reports Celebrity Dirty Laundry. Although Cruise and his sisters were close to South, he reportedly refused to convert to Scientology. South and his mother divorced in 2010. South died in July 2015. The Sun reportedthat both Cruise and his mother skipped the funeral. He was 89 years old a...
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Tom Cruise's mother, Mary Lee South, who encouraged her only son to pursue his Hollywood dreams, has died. She was 80. People reported she died last week in her sleep at her home following ...
Aug 13, 2021 · Mary effectively retired from show business in the 1950s to raise her family, although she returned to variety theatre in later years alongside Jack, who died in 2001 at the age of 85.
Feb 14, 2017 · Cruise and his mother, Mary Lee South, remained close throughout his life — from the poverty-stricken years when he was young through his career as a Hollywood star.
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Actor Tom Cruise, who lost his mother, Mary Lee South, last week, attended her memorial service at her local Church of Scientology.
