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to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age HollywoodMcFarland, 1.8.2016 - 288 sivua Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early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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... mother Mrs. Morehead on Broadway, but Lucile Watson got the plum film assignment. Outwardly the two women resembled each other somewhat, but Watson had more edge to her, inside and out. “Peppery” is a word often used to describe Watson ...
... mother's boarding house, pretending he is “Mr. Grinelli” who is recovering from a nervous breakdown and wants to ... mother of Lynn and O'Connor the mother of Sheridan. They are struggling to keep a boarding house they inherited from ...
... mother's love and becomes a foster mother to him, as a variation on the “gangsters and their mothers” theme prevalent in crime dramas from the beginning and epitomized by Beryl Mercer as Ma Powers in The Public Enemy(1931). Gangster mothers ...
... 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 weekend to make de Havilland fall out of love with him. Caine's character was called Mrs ...
... mother's missionary money and her mother shamed her before the whole community. Dressed in black with her hair center-parted in a bun, Caine is almost unrecognizable, differing so much from her customary elegant dowager look in films ...
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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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