Minna Gombell
Minna Gombell (born May 28, 1892 in Baltimore , Maryland , † April 14, 1973 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American actress .
Life
Minna Gombell was born in 1892 to a doctor in Baltimore, her family consisted of German immigrants. In the 1910s and 1920s she had a successful theater career, often in leading roles and also on Broadway in New York. In 1929 the blonde actress made her film debut with The Great Power . She had one of her most famous roles in 1934 on the side of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man . Gombell often embodied self-confident and sharp-tongued women, for example as the dominant wife of Oliver Hardy in the Laurel and Hardy film Die Klotzköpf (1938).
In 1951 she made her last film In All My Dreams You Are . Minna Gombell was married three times. Most recently, until his death in 1972, with the screenwriter Myron C. Fagan .
Filmography (selection)
- 1929: The Great Power
- 1931: Bad Girl
- 1932: The Death Gorge of Arizona (The Rainbow Trail)
- 1933: children on the streets (Wild Boys of the Road)
- 1933: Guide to Paris (The Way to Love)
- 1933: Walking Down Broadway
- 1934: The Merry Widow (The Merry Widow)
- 1934: The Thin Man (The Thin Man)
- 1934: Das Taucherduell (No More Women)
- 1936: Mississippi melody (Banjo on My Knee)
- 1937: No place for parents (Make Way for Tomorrow)
- 1937: The last slave ship (Slave Ship)
- 1938: The Blockheads
- 1938: The Great Waltz (The Great Waltz)
- 1938: Going Places
- 1938: Comet Over Broadway
- 1939: Premiere in Hollywood (Second Fiddle)
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1940: The Daredevil (Boom Town)
- 1941: Doomed Caravan
- 1941: Decision in the Sierra (High Sierra)
- 1945: Sunbonnet Sue
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (The Best Years of Our Lives)
- 1947: Hyenas of the Prairie (Wyoming)
- 1948: Return of the Bad Men
- 1948: The Snake Pit (The Snake Pit)
- 1949: Assault on Express 44 (The Last Bandit)
- 1951: Wedding Parade (Here Comes the Groom )
- 1951: I'll See You in My Dreams
Web links
- Minna Gombell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gombell, Minna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1973 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California , United States |