In 1954, she made her professional stage debut in Manchester and then went on to London to star in Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered.  In 1955, she played Ophelia with Paul Scofield in Hamlet and went on to play Desdemona and Titania.

She met John Osborne in 1956 during a production of A View from the Bridge in which she had a Brooklyn accent.  She married Osborne in 1957 and went to New York to star in the production of Look Back in Anger in 1958 which won her a Tony award nomination for Best Dramatic Actress.  She had received rave reviews for the Broadway production as one read, "As the tormented wife, Mary Ure succeeds in retaining the pride of an intelligent young woman by filling her silences with unspoken vitality, by being alive and by glowing with youth in every sequence."  It later became a film starring Mary Ure and Richard Burton. 

		Storm Over the Nile 1955
	Look Back in Anger 1958	As Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959
	Duel of Angels
	Mary with Robert Shaw in The Changeling 1961.	As Vera Coffey 1964.
Custer of the West 1967.		Where Eagles Dare 1968.
		Mary with Robert Shaw and Rosemary Harris in Old Times 1971.
	A Reflection of Fear 1973.

She met Robert Shaw around 1959, had an affair with him and they would later marry on April 13, 1963.  They would have four children together and a very happy marriage, as Mary was quoted as saying, "a gloriously loving, combative, thoroughly agreeable to us disagreeable relationship."  I found it both amusing and moving to read a copy of The Flag recently as it was obvious who Robert Shaw was thinking of when he wrote it.  It is even dedicated to Mary.

Mary Ure starred in Sons and Lovers in 1960 and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.  She did a few plays in London during the 1960's, in Arthur Miller's The Crucible and in New York starring with Vivien Leigh in Duel of Angels.  She starred in The Luck of Ginger Coffey with her husband Robert Shaw in 1964 and  they also made Custer of the West together in 1967.  In 1971, Mary and Robert would co-star in Harold Pinter's Old Times on Broadway.  She was in Where Eagles Dare (my favourite along with Ginger Coffey) a year later with Burton again and Clint Eastwood.

It's all sensationalism or as Mary once said about Robert in an interview, "They never print how nice he is." The sad thing is that these people are no longer living and cannot defend themselves.  Objectively speaking, I believe that nothing of that nature should be written about anyone and it is beyond my comprehension as to why it is published in the first place, either for financial gain or perhaps vindictiveness, one can only wonder.