Edith Atwater

Edith Atwater

Birth : 1911-04-22, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 1986-03-14

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Atwater (April 22, 1911 – March 14, 1986) was an American stage, film and television actress. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Atwater made her Broadway debut in 1933. In 1939 she starred in The Man Who Came to Dinner. On screen she appeared in such films as The Body Snatcher, Sweet Smell of Success, and Strait-Jacket. Her television work included roles on The Rockford Files and Knots Landing. Atwater was married to actor Hugh Marlowe in 1941. She later married Kent Smith, with whom she remained married until his death in 1985, a year before her own death. She had no children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edith Atwater, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Edith Atwater

Movies

Die Sister, Die!
Amanda
A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her.
Family Plot
Mrs. Clay
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her taxi driver/unemployed actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Mackintosh and T.J.
Mrs. Webster
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
Our Time
Mrs. Pendleton
Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
Stand Up and Be Counted
Sophie
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
The Love Machine
Mary
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
Norwood
Angry Bus Passenger
A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
Pieces of Dreams
Mrs. Lind (Gregory's Mother)
A young priest questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
True Grit
Mrs. Floyd
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Hospital Desk Nurse (uncredited)
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Strait-Jacket
Mrs. Fields
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
It Happened at the World's Fair
Miss Steuben
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
Sweet Smell of Success
Mary
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Teresa
Mrs. Lawrence
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
C-Man
Lydia Brundage
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
The Body Snatcher
Meg Camden
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
We Went to College
Nina Talbot
Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.