Eleanor Wesselhoeft

Movies

The Man I Married
Old Lady
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.
Everything Happens at Night
Woodcutter's Wife
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Emma
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
The Story of Alfred Nobel
Mother (uncredited)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
The Baroness and the Butler
Sandor's Houskeeper
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Frau Holf the Cook
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
Boulder Dam
Ma Vangarick
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
Stranded
Mrs. Young (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
The Wedding Night
Mrs. Sobieski
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
The Woman in Red
Mrs. Agnew, Housekeeper (as Eleanor Wesselhoft)
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
Black Moon
Anna, the nursemaid
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Cradle Song
Mistress of Novices
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Madame Racketeer
Mrs. Donkenspeil
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Anna
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Street Scene
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.