Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age HollywoodMcFarland, 1.8.2016 - 288 sivua Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York's Yiddish theater--though she wasn't Jewish. |
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... comedy The Earl of Pawtucket at the Princess Theatre in September 1903 and also acted as stage manager.9 Everything was set, then, in 1907, for a fruitful partnership both on and off the stage between Busley and her new, handsome ...
... comedy called The Happiest Years, which only lasted eight performances at the Lyceum Theatre in late April 1949. In July 1949, she gave what was probably her last performance in Rachel Crothers's comedy Let Us Be Gay at the Berkshire ...
... comedy It's Love I'm After (A. Mayo, Warner Bros., 1937), where she played Bonita Granville's mother and one of the weekend guests at Olivia de Havilland's home, when the matinee idol played by Leslie Howard comes down uninvited for the ...
... comedy.”16 From 1899 till 1915, there was hardly a New York theatrical season without her gracing at least one show on the Great White Way. It all started with A Reign of Error, which was the first show at Hammerstein's new Victoria ...
... comedy rather than straight plays may have counted against her; she'd never done a dramatic role on Broadway. I'm guessing, though, that by being willing to take so many uncredited roles at the beginning of her film career, she more or ...
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Maude Eburne 18751960 | 31 |
Effie Ellsler 18551942 | 38 |
Edith Evanson 18961980 | 43 |
Eily Malyon 18791961 | 121 |
Una Merkel 190386 | 127 |
Greta Meyer 18831965 | 133 |
Dennie Moore 190278 | 139 |
Ona Munson 190355 | 143 |
Mary Nash 18841976 | 151 |
Barbara ONeil 191080 | 157 |
Rafaela Ottiano 18881942 | 162 |
Blanche Friderici 18731933 | 49 |
Grace George 18741961 | 54 |
Connie Gilchrist 18951985 | 59 |
Minna Gombell 18921973 | 66 |
Ethel Griffies 18781975 | 71 |
Sara Haden 18981981 | 76 |
Margaret Hamilton
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Rosalind Ivan 18801959 | 89 |
Isabel Jewell 190772 | 96 |
Violet Kemble Cooper 18861961 | 105 |
Doris Lloyd 18911968 | 111 |
Helen Lowell 18651937 | 116 |
Tempe Pigott 18691962 | 168 |
Anita SharpBolster 18951985 | 174 |
Libby Taylor 1900? | 180 |
Zeffie Tilbury 18631950 | 188 |
Norma Varden 18981989 | 195 |
Nydia Westman 190270 | 201 |
Margaret Wycherly 18791956 | 207 |
Blanche Yurka 18871974 | 215 |
Chapter Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 271 |
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