sentences:  Her last screen credit was in director Fred Zinneman's film adaptation of "The Member of the Wedding" (1952), portraying a townswoman.After her retirement from films, Mitchell managed a large apartment house in Los Angeles.While managing a second apartment in 1957—the La Brea District Apartments at 3477 S. La Brea Avenue—a disgruntled houseboy named Sonnie Hartford, Jr. strangled her to death in the building with the cord of her blue silk dressing gown.