Blanche Friderici

Blanche Friderici

Nacimiento : 1873-09-12, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Muerte : 1933-12-23

Historia

Blanche Friderici was a noted American stage and screen actress, her film career beginning in 1920. She is probably best remembered for her roles in Night Nurse (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), and Flying Down to Rio (1933). Although today typically indicated to have been born on 21 January 1878, Friderici's actual birth date was 12 September 1873, per multiple reliable records (including her Brooklyn, New York birth record) from throughout her lifetime.

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Blanche Friderici

Películas

Sucedió una noche
Zeke's Wife
Peter Warren, es un periodista desempleado que se topa con Ellie, la hija de un millonario que huyó del barco de Alexander Andrews, su padre, porque no acepta al hombre con el que ella se quiere casar. Peter ve la oportunidad de conseguir una buena historia, pero varios hechos acaban por crear un vínculo entre ellos.
All of Me
Miss Haskell
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Volando hacia Río de Janeiro
Elena De Rezende
El director de una flota de aviones tiene problemas con su plantilla por culpa de los enredos entre sus chicos y las mujeres. Cuando le ofrecen un contrato para viajar a Río de Janeiro, surgen problemas porque ahora es él el que se enamora de una joven que ya está prometida.
The Way to Love
Rosalie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
Aggie Appleby, creadora de hombres
Aunt Katherine
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men es una película inteligente y perceptiva sobre las relaciones de clase que deja suficientes preguntas para que el final sea absolutamente perfecto o absolutamente devastador, dependiendo de tu punto de vista.
El hombre del bosque
Peg Forney
El gobierno ha tomado la decisión de conceder títulos de propiedad de la tierras a quienes la trabajan. El desarraigado Jim Gaynor es uno de los afortunados pero, como es un ex presidiario, se las ingenia para ceder sus derechos a su sobrina Alice. El villano Clint Beasley, que codicia esas tierras, secuestra a Alice y asesina a su tío.
Tú eres mío
Mrs. Wagner
Ruby se enamora de Eddie, un joven que se dedica a estafar a incautos. En un episodio de chantaje fallido, Eddie sufre un ataque de celos y mata accidentalmente a un hombre.
Adorable
Countess
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
Una noche en El Cairo
Mrs. Hume
Melodrama con guión de Anita Loos. La acción tiene lugar en Egipto, donde una mujer americana se enamora de un rico mercader local. El choque de culturas resultará inevitable: ella es una mujer sofisticada y él un hombre de rudos modales.
Alimony Madness
Mrs. Van
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Secrets
Martha Marlowe
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
La horda maldita (La Estampida de búfalos)
Jane Jett
Estados Unidos, 1874. En esta época, para cazar búfalos, los cazadores más osados debían internarse en parajes inhóspitos y llenos de peligros. Al adentrarse en territorio indio, un grupo de cazadores tendrá que enfrentarse no sólo a los pieles rojas, sino también a los bandidos y a las inclemencias del tiempo.
Su único pecado
Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)
Ronald Colman da vida a un marido atormentado por haber mantenido una fugaz relación con una dependienta, relación que terminó en un escandaloso suceso. Así, decide sincerarse ante su mujer y contarle la verdad. Esta situación obliga a la pareja a exponer con claridad la verdad de su feliz (y aburrido) matrimonio.
Adiós a las armas
Head Nurse
Antes de que los Estados Unidos entren en la guerra en 1917, Frederick, un periodista norteamericano, se alista como voluntario en el Cuerpo de Ambulancias italiano para poder seguir de cerca los acontecimientos. Tras recibir una herida, ingresa en un hospital y se enamora de Catherine, una enfermera británica.
Si yo tuviera un millón
Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)
Un millonario que está a punto de morir decide repartir su fortuna entre desconocidos cuyos nombres saca de la guía telefónica. Los afortunados emplean el dinero de diferentes formas: el oficinista plantará cara a su jefe, la prostituta intentará cambiar su vida, etc. Un filme compuesto por episodios en el que la Paramount empleó a sus mejores directores, James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter y Norman Taurog y a sus estrellas más relevantes como Charles Laugthon, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Jack Oakie o W. C. Fields. El mejor episodio es precisamente el dirigido por Lubitsch sobre la reacción de un oficinista al saberse repentinamente millonario, que interpreta Charles Laughton.
Tres vidas de mujer
Miss Blazer (uncredited)
Tras muchos años sin verse, tres amigas de la infancia, Maria, Vivian y Ruth, vuelven a encontrase y se ponen al día sobre los cambios de sus respectivas vidas. Vivian decide entonces invitar a sus amigas y a sus parejas a un crucero con el fin de conocerse mejor.
Trece mujeres
Miss Kirsten
Trece mujeres que fueron compañeras de escuela piden a un swami que les haga sus horóscopos. Las noticias que reciben no son buenas para ninguna de ellas…
The Night Club Lady
Mrs. Carewe
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Ámame esta noche
Third Aunt
Encantador y romántico musical que marcó el paso de muchos de los posteriores. Un sastre de París y una princesa se enamoran en esta obra maestra con el gran Maurice Chevalier.
Miss Pinkerton
Mary
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
State's Attorney
Night Court Judge (uncredited)
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.
So Big!
Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Young Bride
Librarian Margaret Gordon
Una bibliotecaria tímida e ingenua de Nueva York debe volverse más fuerte y más sabia después de descubrir que su nuevo esposo es un mentiroso, un tramposo y un fraude.
Una mujer con pasado
Nora
Una chica rica de la alta sociedad neoyorkina con fama de aburrida se da cuenta de que se es mucho más popular entre los hombres cuando se pretende ser una chica "mala". De viaje en París conoce a Guy, un joven americano arruinado que le ayudará a inventarse esa "mala" fama para llamar la atención de la sociedad en la que se mueve y en particular la de su amado Donnie.
The Hatchet Man
Madame Si-Si (uncredited)
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
Mata Hari
Sister Angelica
Año 1917. Mata Hari es una seductora bailarina que vive en París y que ejerce de espía para los alemanes.
Honor of the Family
Mme. Boris
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Malvada
Mrs. Johnson
La perdición –y maldad de su título– de Margot Rande no es otra que su díscolo hijo. Cuando el muchacho atraca un banco, la madre le protege disparando accidentalmente a un policía. Condenada a veinte años de prisión, la mujer es sometida a todo tipo de vejaciones por culpa de guardianas sin escrúpulos. Un abogado intentará reducir su condena, pero las cosas se complican cuando ella tiene un niño mientras está entre rejas.
Friends and Lovers
Lady Allice
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
A Dangerous Affair
Letty Randolph
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
The Woman Between
Mrs. Weston
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Murder by the Clock
Julia Endicott
A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
Enfermeras de noche
Mrs. Maxwell
Lora Hart es una enfermera que, al acabar su turno, hace horas extras por la noche cuidando a dos niños pequeños en una gran casa. Inesperadamente, se verá involucrada en un complot criminal que la obligará a poner en juego toda su habilidad e inteligencia para librarse de esa situación.
Woman Hungry
Mrs. Temple
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
Ten Cents a Dance
Mrs. Blanchard
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
The Cat Creeps
Mam' Pleasant
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
Kismet
Narjis
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Billy el niño :  El terror de la pradera
Mrs. McSween
Después de vengar a su jefe, Billy el niño es perseguido y posteriormente capturado por el sheriff Pat Garret. No obstante, el forajido consigue fugarse para huir en dirección a México, reanudando una vez más la cacería, ¿será la definitiva?. ---------------------- En esta versión de la leyenda de Billy the Kid, Billy, después de derribar a los secuaces del barón de la tierra William Donovan por matar al jefe de Billy, es perseguido y capturado por su amigo, el sheriff Pat Garrett. Se escapa y se dirige a México cuando Garrett, recapturándolo, debe decidir si lo trae o lo deja ir.
The Office Wife
Kate Halsey
Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's duties creates a relationship approaching that of his wife. Little does Larry know that sometimes literature mirrors life.
Numbered Men
Mrs. Miller
Se trata de un melodrama adaptado de la obra teatral "Jailbreak" de Dwight Taylor, convertida en guión por el dúo Alfred A. Cohn y Henry McCarthy. En ella asistimos a bastantes tópicos dentro del género como el falso culpable (Raymond Hackett), el recluso que tiene un plan para escapar (Ralph Ince) y la chica de turno que aparece en la cárcel como si nada (Bernice Claire).
Courage
Aunt Caroline
Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves with them to Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to educate her children with culture and give them every advantage. Bennett, who is unversed in financial matters, soon faces poverty for herself and her children. She takes out a loan from an unscrupulous lender (played by Richard Tucker), who is so impressed by the charm and valiant spirit of Bennett than he neglects to ask her for collateral. Bennett, however, is only able to partially pay her creditors. Marion Nixon, Bennett's eldest daughter, is shocked by her mother's actions and attempts to sacrifice herself to Tucker in order to clear her mother's obligations, even though she is engaged to marry a well to do Harvard undergraduate, played by Rex Bell. This film is believed lost.
The Bad One
Madame Durand
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Soldiers and Women
Martha
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
A Notorious Affair
Lady Teel (uncredited)
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
The Girl Said No
Mrs. McAndrews
Un joven ambicioso consigue empleo en un banco y trata de seducir a la secretaria de su jefe, pero la muerte de su padre logra que reconsidere sus prioridades.
Trifles
Mrs. Peters
The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives are able to solve the mystery, which they decide to keep to themselves.
La intrusa
Miss Potter the Nurse
Marion trabaja como secretaria del abogado Hector Ferguson. Jack, cliente de Ferguson se enamora de Marion, y pasados unos meses se casan, pero la familia de él anula el matrimonio justo después de haber tenido ambos un hijo. Ante los problemas, Jack huye pero Ferguson, que ama en secreto a Marion, intentará ayudarla para darle un futuro y un bienestar al niño.
Jazz Heaven
Mrs. Langley
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
The Awful Truth
Mrs. Leeson
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
El poder de una mujer
Trombolt's Housekeeper
Un pianista alemán va a romper con su esposa infiel, cuando recibe el mensaje de que su hijastro favorito ha muerto.
Stolen Love
Aunt Evvie
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
Los caballeros las prefieren rubias
Miss Chapman
A bordo de un trasatlántico, dos chicas intentan atrapar a uno de los solterones más ricos en América.
Sadie Thompson
Mrs. Alfred Davidson
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
39 East
Miss McMasters
The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.