Margaret Wycherly

Margaret Wycherly

Birth : 1881-10-26, London, England, UK

Death : 1956-06-06

History

English born Margaret Wycherly was, in England, a stage actress, and, in America, a stage, film, and television actress.

Profile

Margaret Wycherly

Movies

The President's Lady
Mrs. Robards
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
The Man with a Cloak
Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
White Heat
Ma Jarrett
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
The Loves of Carmen
Old Crone
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
Forever Amber
Mrs. Spong
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Something in the Wind
Grandma Read
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
The Yearling
Ma Forrester
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Johnny Angel
Miss Drumm
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
Experiment Perilous
Maggie, the Maid
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Hangmen Also Die!
Ludmilla Novotny
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Keeper of the Flame
Old Mrs. Forrest
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
The Moon Is Down
Mme. Sarah Orden
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Assignment in Brittany
Mme. Henriette Corlay
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Random Harvest
Mrs. Deventer
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
Crossroads
Madame Pelletier
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Sergeant York
Mother York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Victory
Mrs. Schomberg
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Midnight
Mrs. Weldon
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and Blackhawk Films with funding from the estate of David Shepard from a 35mm nitrate duplicate negative and 35mm nitrate fine grain in the Lobster Films collection.
The Thirteenth Chair
Madame Rosalie La Grange
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.