Blanche Friderici

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Blanche Friderici (born January 21, 1878 in Brooklyn , New York City , † December 23, 1933 in Visalia , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Actress Blanche Friderici made her Broadway debut in 1914 at the age of 36 in Omar, the Tentmaker . In the following years up to 1927 she played there in a total of nine pieces, most successfully as the wife of a bigoted pastor in the successful piece Rain , which was performed a total of 648 times between September 1924 and March. To re-represent that role in the film adaptation of the play ... But the Flesh Is Weak , the character actress went to Hollywood in 1928. In the five years that followed, up to her death, Friderici appeared in 60 films, often as a cool and strict middle-aged woman, for example in the popular hits In Another Country and Flying Down to Rio .

She made one of her most notable appearances in the pre-code film The Office Wife from 1930, in which she was seen as a lesbian writer. In Night Nurse by William A. Wellman , she played a housekeeper who cannot protect her mistress' two children in their fear of a ruthless gangster ( Clark Gable ). In Friderici's last film It Happened in One Night , directed by Frank Capra , she played the dominant wife of an absent-minded motel owner; the film was not released until after her death and won five Academy Awards at the 1935 Academy Awards . At this point she had already been dead for over a year: On Christmas 1933, Friderici was driving with her husband Donald Campell to a Christmas mass when she suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 55.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Blanche Friderici  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blanche Friderici at the New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Friderici, Blanche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1933
Place of death Visalia , California