Georgia Backus

Georgia Backus

Birth : 1900-10-13,

Death : 1983-09-07

Profile

Georgia Backus

Movies

The Mark of the Renegade
Duenna Concepcion
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
Apache Drums
Mrs. Keon
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Cause for Alarm!
Mrs. Warren
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
Copper Canyon
Martha Bassett
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
No Man of Her Own
Nurse (uncredited)
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Force of Evil
Sylvia Morse (uncredited)
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Dream Girl
Edna
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
Suddenly It's Spring
WAC Maj. Cheever
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Lucky Jordan
Toy Shop Clerk
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Miss Peel
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
I Married a Witch
Older Woman (uncredited)
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Matron (uncredited)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Not a Ladies' Man
Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher.
Shut My Big Mouth
Townswoman
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
They Dare Not Love
German Secretary
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
Citizen Kane
Bertha Anderson
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Repent at Leisure
Nurse
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
So Ends Our Night
Mrs. Kern (uncredited)
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.