Clara Blandick

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Clara Blandick
Clara Blandick.jpg
Blandick, c. 1895
Born
Clara Blanchard Dickey

(1876-06-04)June 4, 1876
Victoria Harbour, British Hong Kong[1]
DiedApril 15, 1962(1962-04-15) (aged 85)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
OccupationActress
Years active1901–1950
Spouse(s)
Harry Stanton Elliott
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(m. 1905; div. 1912)​

Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey; June 4, 1876 – April 15, 1962) was an American character, film, stage and theater actress. She played Aunt Em in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939). As a character actress, she often played eccentric elderly matriarchs.

Early life[]

She was born Clara Blanchard Dickey,[2] the daughter of Isaac B. and Hattie (née Mudgett) Dickey, aboard the Willard Mudgett – an American ship captained by her father (named after one of her maternal relatives), and docked in Victoria Harbour, British Hong Kong.[1] She was delivered by Captain William H. Blanchard, whose ship, Wealthy Pendleton, was anchored nearby. His wife, Clara Pendleton Blanchard, was also present. To thank the Blanchards, Captain and Mrs. Dickey named their daughter Clara Blanchard Dickey. When she became successful as an actress, she took the first syllable of "Blanchard" and the first syllable of "Dickey" to create her stage name, "Clara Blandick". While she often used 1880 as her year of birth for professional purposes, she was actually born in 1876. According to the newspaper Daily Alta California, both the Willard Mudgett and the Wealthy Pendleton were in Hong Kong Harbor in June 1876. By 1880, Captain Dickey was in command of a different ship (the William Hales), and the rest of the family was in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Her parents had settled in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1879 or 1880. Sources vary on when the Dickeys settled there, and Clara may have been two or three years old when they made the move. In nearby Boston she met the Shakespearean actor E. H. Sothern, with whom she appeared in a production of Richard Lovelace. She moved from Boston to New York City by 1900, and began pursuing acting as a career.[2]

Acting[]

Her first professional appearance came in 1901, when she was cast as Jehanneton in the play If I Were King,[3] which ran for 56 performances at Garden Theatre (an early component of Madison Square Garden). She achieved acclaim for her role in The Christian.

In 1903 she played Gwendolyn in the Broadway premiere of E. W. Hornung's Raffles The Amateur Cracksman opposite Kyrle Bellew. She started in pictures with the Kalem company in 1908 and made a number of appearances such as in The Maid's Double in 1911. Blandick finally broke onto Broadway in 1912, when she was cast as Dolores Pennington in Widow By Proxy which ran for 88 performances through early 1913 at George M. Cohan's Theatre on Broadway. During this same period she appeared on stages throughout the Northeastern United States as a member of Sylvester Poli's stock theater company, The Poli Players. She continued to achieve acclaim for her stage work, playing a number of starring roles, including the lead in Madame Butterfly. By 1914, she was back on the silver screen, as Emily Mason in the film Mrs. Black is Back.[4]

During World War I, Blandick performed some overseas volunteer work for the American Expeditionary Force in France. She also continued to act on stage and occasionally in silent pictures. In 1924, she earned rave reviews for her supporting role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, which ran for 122 performances at the Klaw Theatre in New York (later renamed CBS Radio Playhouse No. 2).

In 1929, Blandick moved to Hollywood. By the 1930s, she was well known in theatrical and film circles as an established supporting actress. Though she landed roles like Aunt Polly in the 1930 film Tom Sawyer (a role she reprised in the 1931 film Huckleberry Finn), she spent much of the decade as a character actor, often going uncredited. In Pre-Code films she often played mothers, including those of characters played by Joan Crawford (Possessed) and Joan Blondell (Three on a Match). At a time when many actors were permanently attached to a single studio, she played a wide number of bit parts for almost every major Hollywood studio (though she would later be under contract with 20th Century Fox). In 1930, she acted in nine films. In 1931 she was in thirteen films. As is the case with some other busy character actors, it is difficult to make an exact tally of the films in which Blandick appeared but a reasonable estimate would fall between 150 and 200.

The Wizard of Oz and later years[]

In 1939, Blandick landed her most memorable minor role – Aunt Em in MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz. Though it was a small part (Blandick filmed all her scenes in a single week), the character was an important symbol of protagonist Dorothy's quest to return home to her beloved aunt and uncle. (Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are the only characters from the beginning of the movie, in black-and-white Kansas, not to have alter ego characters in the Land of Oz.) Blandick beat May Robson, Janet Beecher, and Sarah Padden for the role, and earned $750 per week. Some believed Aunt Em's alter ego was to be Glinda, the Good Witch of the North but the studio opted to use different actresses for each role. The reason was they wanted someone younger looking to contrast the good witch from the bad witches, although Billie Burke, who played Glinda, was only eight years younger. Blandick is only credited in the movie's closing credits.

After The Wizard of Oz, Blandick returned to her staple of character acting in supporting and bit roles. She would continue to act in a wide variety of roles in dozens of films. She played Mrs. Morton Pringle in 1940's Anne of Windy Poplars,[5] a department store customer in the 1941 Marx Brothers film The Big Store,[6] a fashionable socialite in the 1944 musical Can't Help Singing,[7] and a cold-blooded murderer in the 1947 mystery Philo Vance Returns.[8] Her final two roles both came in 1950 – playing a housekeeper and a landlady in Key to the City[9] and Love That Brute,[10] respectively. She retired from acting at the age of 74 and went into seclusion at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Personal life and death[]

Blandick was married on December 7, 1905, in Manhattan, to mining engineer Harry Stanton Elliott.[11] Prior to his mining career, he had been an actor, and they had starred together in The Christian. They separated by 1910, and are believed to have divorced in 1912. They had no children.

Throughout the 1950s, Blandick's health steadily began to deteriorate. Her eyesight began to fail and she was suffering from severe, painful arthritis. On April 15, 1962, she returned home from Palm Sunday services at her church. She began rearranging her room, placing her favorite photos and memorabilia in prominent places. She laid out her resume and a collection of press clippings from her lengthy career. She dressed immaculately in an elegant royal blue dressing gown, and with her hair properly styled, she took an overdose of sleeping pills. She lay down on a couch, covered herself with a gold blanket over her shoulders, and tied a plastic bag over her head. She left the following note: “I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.”[12]

Blandick's landlady, Helen Mason, found her body Sunday morning. In preparing to die, she had disposed of all her medicines the previous week. She was survived by a niece, Catherine Hopkins, of Camarillo, California. Her ashes were interred at the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Security at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale along with those of her sister, Marcia D. Young, and Marcia's husband, George A. Young.

Blandick's ashes lie just yards from those of Charley Grapewin, her on-screen husband in The Wizard of Oz.

Stage[]

Note: The list below is limited to New York/Broadway theatrical productions

Broadway credits of Clara Blandick
Date Title Role Ref(s)
Oct 14, 1901 - Dec 1901 If I Were King Jehanneton [13]
Oct 27, 1903 - Mar 1904 Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman Gwendolyn Conron [14]
Dec 21, 1903 - Jan 1904 The Sacrament of Judas Jeffick Gillou [15]
Mar 28, 1904 - May 1904 The Two Orphans Marianne [16]
Apr 06, 1908 - May 1908 The Royal Mounted Rosa Larabee [17]
Feb 24, 1913 - May 1913 Widow by Proxy Dolores Pennington [18]
Apr 21, 1913 - May 1913 Mrs. Peckham's Carouse [19]
Aug 23, 1915 - Oct 1915 No. 13 Washington Square [20]
Feb 01, 1917 - May 1917 The Wanderer [21]
Mar 31, 1923 - May 1923 The Enchanted Cottage Mrs. Minnett, First Witch [22]
Jan 04, 1924 - Apr 1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven Meg Hunt [23]
Sep 28, 1925 - Dec 12, 1925 Applesauce Mrs. Jennie Baldwin [24]
Oct 05, 1926 - Oct 1926 The Good Fellow Mrs. Kent [25]
Apr 01, 1927 - Apr 1927 Fog-Bound Mrs. Penny [26]
May 11, 1927 - Jun 1927 Kempy "Ma" Bence [27]
Nov 01, 1927 - Nov 1927 Ink Hester Trevelyan [28]
Feb 01, 1928 - Feb 1928 La Gringa Sarah Bowditch [29]
Mar 14, 1928 - Mar 1928 The Buzzard Mrs. Burns [30]
May 21, 1928 - Jul 1929 Skidding Mrs. Hardy [31]
Jan 11, 1929 - Jan 1929 Skyrocket Mrs. Ewing [32]

Filmography[]

Film credits of Clara Blandick
Year Title Role Studio/Distributor Ref(s)
1911 Short
1914 Mrs. Black Is Back Emily Mason Famous Players Film Company [4]
1916 Mrs. Rowley Rolfe Photoplays [33]
1917 Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp Mrs. Donnelly Rolfe Photoplays [34]
1929 Wise Girls Ma MGM [35]
1929 One Hysterical Night Masquerade Guest - Little Bo Peep (uncredited) Universal
1930 Romance Abigail Armstrong MGM [36]
1930 The Girl Said No Mrs. Ward MGM [37]
1930 Tom Sawyer Aunt Polly Paramount [38]
1930 The Sins of the Children Martha Wagenkampf MGM [39]
1930 Men Are Like That Ma Fisher Paramount Famous Players Film Company [40]
1930 Burning Up Mrs. Minnie Winkle (uncredited) Paramount [41]
1931 Daybreak Frau Hoffman MGM [42]
1931 New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford Mrs. Layton MGM [43]
1931 Once a Sinner Mrs. Mason Fox Film Corporation [44]
1931 Possessed Marian's Mother MGM [45]
1931 Bought! Mrs. Sprigg Warner Bros. [46]
1931 It's a Wise Child Mrs. Stanton MGM [47]
1931 The Easiest Way Agnes MGM [48]
1931 Huckleberry Finn Aunt Polly Paramount [49]
1931 I Take This Woman Sue Barnes Paramount Publix Corp. [50]
1931 Murder at Midnight Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy Tiffany Pictures [51]
1931 The Drums of Jeopardy Abbie Krantz Tiffany [52]
1931 Inspiration Madeleine's Mother (uncredited) MGM
1931 Laughing Sinners Salvation Army Woman (uncredited) MGM
1932 Two Against the World Aunt Agatha Warner Bros. [53]
1932 The Strange Case of Clara Deane Mrs. Lyons Paramount [54]
1932 Rockabye Brida RKO Pictures [55]
1932 Shopworn Mrs. Livingston Columbia Pictures [56]
1932 Life Begins Mrs. West Warner Bros. [57]
1932 The Wet Parade Mrs. Tarleton MGM [58]
1932 Three on a Match Mrs. Keaton Warner Bros. [59]
1933 Three Cornered Moon Landlady (uncredited) Paramount [60]
1933 Charlie Chan's Greatest Case Minerva Winterslip Fox [61]
1933 The Bitter Tea of General Yen Mrs. Jackson Columbia [62]
1933 The Mind Reader Auntie First National Pictures [63]
1933 Ever in My Heart Anna Warner Bros. [64]
1933 Turn Back the Clock Joe's Mother MGM [65]
1933 One Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Bush Paramount [66]
1933 Child of Manhattan Aunt Sophie Columbia [67]
1933 Going Hollywood Miss Perkins MGM [68]
1934 Beloved Miss Murfee Universal [69]
1934 Harold Teen Ma Lovewell Warner Bros. [70]
1934 Jealousy Mrs. Douglas Columbia [71]
1934 As the Earth Turns Cora Warner Bros. [72]
1934 The Girl from Missouri Miss Newberry MGM [73]
1934 The Show-Off Ma Fisher MGM [74]
1934 Sisters Under the Skin Miss Gower Columbia [75]
1934 Fugitive Lady Aunt Margaret Columbia [76]
1934 Broadway Bill Mrs. Peterson Columbia [77]
1935 The President Vanishes Walter Wanger Productions [78]
1935 Transient Lady Eva Branham Universal [79]
1935 Princess O'Hara Miss Van Cortland Universal [80]
1935 Straight from the Heart Mrs. Anderson Universal [81]
1935 Party Wire Mathilda Sherman Columbia [82]
1935 The Winning Ticket Aunt Maggie MGM [83]
1936 Fury Judge's wife MGM [84]
1936 The Case of the Velvet Claws Judge Mary F. O'Daugherty First National [85]
1936 Hearts Divided Aunt Ellen First National [86]
1936 Make Way for a Lady Mrs. Dell RKO [87]
1936 Martha Adams B. F. Zeidman Productions, Inc. [88]
1936 The Gorgeous Hussy Louisa Abbott MGM [89]
1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Landlady Walter Wanger [90]
1936 Anthony Adverse Mrs. Jorham Warner Bros. [91]
1937 You Can't Have Everything Townswoman 20th Century Fox [92]
1937 Wings Over Honolulu Evie Curtis Universal [93]
1937 Her Husband's Secretary Agatha Kingdon Warner Bros. [94]
1937 Small Town Boy Mrs. Armstrong Grand National Films Inc. [95]
1937 A Star is Born Aunt Mattie Selznick International Pictures [96]
1937 The Road Back Willy's Mother Universal [97]
1938 Swing, Sister, Swing Ma Sisler Universal [98]
1938 Crime Ring Phoebe Sawyer RKO [99]
1938 My Old Kentucky Home Julia "Granny" Blair [100]
1938 Tom Sawyer, Detective Aunt Polly Paramount [101]
1938 Professor Beware Mrs. Green - Landlady Harold Lloyd Corp [102]
1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Miss Watson MGM [103]
1939 I Was a Convict (1939) Aunt Sarah Scarlett Republic Pictures [104]
1939 Swanee River Mrs. Griffin 20th Century [105]
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk Mrs. Borst 20th Century [106]
1939 The Wizard of Oz Aunt Em MGM [107]
1939 The Star Maker Miss Esther Jones John Duke Paramount [108]
1939 Main Street Lawyer Uncredited Republic
1940 North West Mounted Police Mrs. Burns Cecil B. DeMille [109]
1940 Youth Will Be Served Miss Bradshaw 20th Century [110]
1940 Dreaming Out Loud Jessica Spence Voco Productions [111]
1940 Tomboy Aunt Martha Monogram Pictures [112]
1940 Anne of Windy Poplars Mrs. Morton Pringle RKO [5]
1940 Warner Bros. [113]
1941 The Big Store Customer MGM [6]
1941 Private Nurse Miss Phillips 20th Century [114]
1941 The Wagons Roll at Night Mrs. Williams Warner Bros. [115]
1941 The Nurse's Secret Miss Juliet Mitchell Warner Bros. [116]
1941 It Started with Eve Nurse Universal [117]
1941 One Foot in Heaven Sister Watkins Warner Bros. [118]
1941 The Get-Away Mrs. Higgins MGM [119]
1942 Rings on Her Fingers Mrs. Beasley 20th Century [120]
1942 Lady in a Jam Tourist Universal [121]
1942 Road to Morocco Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited) Paramount
1942 Gentleman Jim Woman on train (uncredited) Warner Bros.
1943 Dixie Mrs. Mason Paramount [122]
1943 Heaven Can Wait Grandmother Van Cleve 20th Century [123]
1943 Du Barry Was a Lady Old lady on subway MGM [124]
1944 Can't Help Singing Aunt Cissy Universal [7]
1944 Shadow of Suspicion Mother Randall Monogram [125]
1945 Frontier Gal Abigail Universal [126]
1945 Pillow of Death Belle Kincaid Universal [127]
1946 She-Wolf of London Mrs. McBroom Universal [128]
1946 So Goes My Love Mrs. Meade [129]
1946 A Stolen Life Martha Warner Bros. [130]
1946 People Are Funny Grandma Wilson Pine-Thomas Productions [131]
1946 Claudia and David Mrs. Barry 20th Century [132]
1947 Philo Vance Returns Stella Blendon Producers Releasing Corporation [8]
1947 Life with Father Miss Wiggins Warner Bros. [133]
1948 The Bride Goes Wild as Aunt Pewtie MGM [134]
1949 Mr. Soft Touch Susan Balmuss Columbia [135]
1949 Roots in the Soil Wilding Picture Productions
1950 Key to the City Liza MGM [9]
1950 Love That Brute Landlady 20th Century [10]

References[]

  • Chicago Daily Tribune, Clara Real 'Ship's Daughter', January 30, 1910.
  • Los Angeles Times, Actress Clara Blandick Plays Farewell Scene, April 16, 1962, Page A1.

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b 1880 United States Census Household Record: Isaac B. Dickey family at familysearch.org
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Fisher, James; Londré, Felicia Hardison (2017). Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 89. ISBN 9781538107867. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  3. ^ Nissen, Axel (2012). Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood. McFarland. pp. 5–11. ISBN 9780786490455. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Mrs. Black is Back". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Anne of Windy Poplars". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Big Store". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Can't Help Singing". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Philo Vance Returns". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Key to the City". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Love That Brute". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  11. ^ Manhattan marriage certificate #26838
  12. ^ Nissen, Axel (2012). Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. p. 8. ISBN 9780786461370. OCLC 761369278.
  13. ^ "If I Were King". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  14. ^ "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman – Broadway Play – Original | IBDB". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  15. ^ "The Sacrament of Judas". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  16. ^ "The Two Orphans". Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  17. ^ "The Royal Mounted". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  18. ^ "Widow by Proxy". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  19. ^ "Mrs. Peckham's Carouse". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  20. ^ "No. 13 Washington Square". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  21. ^ "The Wanderer". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  22. ^ "The Enchanted Cottage". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  23. ^ "Hell-bent Fer Heaven". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  24. ^ "Applesauce". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  25. ^ "The Good Fellow". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  26. ^ "Fog-Bound". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  27. ^ "Kempy". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  28. ^ "Ink". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  29. ^ "La Gringa". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  30. ^ "The Buzzard". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  31. ^ "Skidding". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  32. ^ "Skyrocket". IBDB. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  33. ^ "The Stolen Triumph". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  34. ^ "Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  35. ^ "Wise Girls". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  36. ^ "Romance". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  37. ^ "The Girl Said No". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  38. ^ "Tom Sawyer". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  39. ^ "Sins of the Children". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  40. ^ "Men Are Like That". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  41. ^ "Burning Up credits list". UCLA Library catalog. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  42. ^ "Daybreak". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  43. ^ "New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  44. ^ "Once a Sinner". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  45. ^ "Possessed". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  46. ^ "Bought". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  47. ^ "It's a Wise Child". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  48. ^ "The Easiest Way". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  49. ^ "Huckleberry Finn". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  50. ^ "I Take This Woman". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  51. ^ "Murder at Midnight". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  52. ^ "The Drums of Jeopardy". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  53. ^ "Two Against the World". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  54. ^ "The Strange Case of Clara Deane". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  55. ^ "Rockabye". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  56. ^ "Shopworn". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  57. ^ "Life Begins". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  58. ^ "The Wet Parade". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  59. ^ "Three on a Match". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  60. ^ "Three Cornered Moon". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  61. ^ "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  62. ^ "The Bitter Tea of General Yen". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  63. ^ "The Mind Reader". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  64. ^ "Ever in My Heart". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  65. ^ "Turn Back the Clock". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  66. ^ "One Sunday Afternoon". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  67. ^ "Child of Manhattan". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  68. ^ "Going Hollywood". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  69. ^ "Beloved". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  70. ^ "Harold Teen". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  71. ^ "Jealousy". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  72. ^ "As the Earth Turns". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  73. ^ "The Girl from Missouri". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  74. ^ "The Show-Off". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  75. ^ "Sisters Under the Skin". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  76. ^ "Fugitive Lady". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  77. ^ "Broadway Bill". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  78. ^ "The President Vanishes". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  79. ^ "Transient Lady". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  80. ^ "Princess O'Hara". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  81. ^ "Straight from the Heart". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  82. ^ "Party Wire". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  83. ^ "The Winning Ticket". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  84. ^ "Fury". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  85. ^ "The Case of the Velvet Claws". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  86. ^ "Hearts Divided". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  87. ^ "Make Way for a Lady". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  88. ^ "In His Steps". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  89. ^ "The Gorgeous Hussy". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  90. ^ "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  91. ^ "Anthony Adverse". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  92. ^ "You Can't Have Everything". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  93. ^ "Wings Over Honolulu". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  94. ^ "Her Husband's Secretary". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  95. ^ "Small Town Boy". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  96. ^ "A Star is Born". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  97. ^ "The Road Back". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  98. ^ "Swing, Sister, Swing". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  99. ^ "Crime Ring". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  100. ^ "My Old Kentucky Home". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  101. ^ "Tom Sawyer, Detective". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  102. ^ "Professor Beware". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  103. ^ "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  104. ^ "I Was a Convict". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  105. ^ "Swanee River". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  106. ^ "Drums Along the Mohawk". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  107. ^ "The Wizard of Oz". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  108. ^ "The Star Maker". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  109. ^ "North West Mounted Police". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  110. ^ "Youth Will Be Served". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  111. ^ "Dreaming Out Loud". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  112. ^ "Tomboy". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  113. ^ "Alice in Movieland". UCLA Library Catalog. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  114. ^ "Private Nurse". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  115. ^ "The Wagons Roll at Night". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  116. ^ "The Nurse's Secret". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  117. ^ "It Started with Eve". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  118. ^ "One Foot in Heaven". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  119. ^ "The Get-Away". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  120. ^ "Rings on Her Fingers". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  121. ^ "Lady in a Jam". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  122. ^ "Dixie". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  123. ^ "Heaven Can Wait". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  124. ^ "Du Barry Was a Lady". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  125. ^ "Shadow of Suspicion". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  126. ^ "Frontier Gal". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  127. ^ "Pillow of Death". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  128. ^ "She-Wolf of London". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  129. ^ "So Goes My Love". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  130. ^ "A Stolen Life". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  131. ^ "People Are Funny". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  132. ^ "Claudia and David". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  133. ^ "Life with Father". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  134. ^ "The Bride Goes Wild". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  135. ^ "Mr. Soft Touch". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.

Further reading[]

  • Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Clara Blandick". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 40–43. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.

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