 In the 1940 film "Gold Rush Maisie", she played the patient, forbearing wife and mother of a family, forced by the Dust Bowl and Depression to abandon their farm in Arkansas, that has spent five years traveling through the country in search of seasonal work.Nash may be best known for playing villains in two notable Shirley Temple films, first as Fraulein Rottenmeier in "Heidi" (1937) and then as Miss Minchin in "The Little Princess" (1939).She played Katharine Hepburn's socialite mother in the movie version of "The Philadelphia Story" (1940).