Nydia Westman
Nacimiento : 1902-02-19, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1970-05-23
Historia
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Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.
Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School.
Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.
Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.
Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.
She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.
Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).
She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.
Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.
Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
Mrs. Smith
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Aunt Zana
Un joven que tiene temor a las alturas se convierte en héroe, cuando su padre lo inscribe en el programa espacial.
Aunt Cora
La periodista Kelly Olsson posa como bailarina para impresionar al rijoso director de una revista para hombres, con el fin de conseguir que publique un relato suyo.
Mrs. Henderson
Casi todos los habitantes de una pequeña ciudad de Texas piensan que su comisario es una simple marioneta del todopoderoso petrolero Val Rogers. Pero todo cambia cuando el joven Bubber Reeves escapa de la prisión. Y es que mientras el agente quiere entregar vivo al fugitivo, Rogers desea que le mate, pues teme por la vida de su hijo, que ha tenido una aventura con la mujer del fugitivo.
Mrs. Cobb
Un aspirante a periodista espera escribir una gran historia, después de pasar la noche en una casa embrujada.
Milo's Wife
Un abogado de vida alegre es contratado por una millonaria para una tarea inusual: emparejar a sus tres hijas con los tres candidatos que ella misma ha seleccionado, todos ellos muy buenos partidos: un industrial, un inspector de hacienda y un individuo que se dedica a rehabilitar presos.
Amy
A TV executive tries to create a musical special to save his network.
Serena Applegate
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Susan Crane
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Jane Willing
Basada en una obra -de mismo título- ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, narra la historia de un aristócrata de Boston enamorado de su ciudad hasta extremos insospechados. Él tiene perfectamente claro que sus hijos deben permanecer en Boston y relacionarse sólo con bostonianos, pero para su desgracia su hijo -estudiante en Harvard- se enamora de una chica de Worcester, mientras su hija se queda prendada de un estudiante de Yale...
Aunt Penolope
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.
Mrs. Bowers (uncredited)
La princesa María, que visita de incógnito Nueva York, decide volar hasta San Francisco. Sin embargo, después de aterrizar el avión, una serie de enredos la llevan a pasar la noche en casa del piloto, que está convencido de que es una simple criada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Nurse Willing
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
Lewis, M.J.'s Secretary
Margaret Drew lleva su compañía de transportes con mano de hierro. La única espina que tiene clavada es el escritor Michael Holmes, que está escribiendo un libro sobre sus duras maneras. En la boda de su hermana menor conoce a un atractivo forastero, por el se siente atraída al instante; cuando se entera de que es el odiado escritor, empieza a perder el rumbo.....
Miss Van Buren
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Angela Hardy
Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan.
Lulu Perkins
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
Cicily
Veinte años después de la muerte de un excéntrico multimillonario su familia es llamada para la lectura de su testamento. De hecho, se trata de una grabación hecha de él mismo realizada antes de su muerte, donde nombra como su heredera a su familiar más lejano. La única condición impuesta es que mantenga la mente sana, pero por la noche la aparición de fantasmas hará que todos empiecen a dudar de su cordura.
Lulu
Philip Chagal, un pianista francés de está de gira en Estados Unidos, queda prendado de Helen, una camarera, que cree que se trata de un espía sindical de la empresa donde trabaja. Una vez resuelto el malentendido, tienen que refugiarse en una iglesia ante la inminente llegada de un huracán, y allí se declaran su amor. El problema es que Philip está casado con una mujer desequilibrada que le impedirá ser feliz. (FILMAFFINIT)
Gwen Longworth
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Midge
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Ada
Un excéntrico productor de cine se encuentra en plena crisis creativa y siente que ha perdido el contacto con el público. Por ello, contrata a una joven como asesora, para que le diga qué es lo que el público quiere ver, y con estas ideas rodar su siguiente película.
Gwen Longworth
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
'Dotty' Leonard
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
Susie Reynolds
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...
Slavey - Hotel Maid
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Mazie
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
Maybelle
Un senador rechaza a Peggy O'Neal, y ella, despechada, decide casarse con un teniente. Muerto éste en combate, se casa con un miembro del Gobierno, pasando así a formar parte de la alta sociedad. Pero esto no impide que se deje seducir por un joven, dando lugar a toda clase de habladurías en los círculos de Washington.
Briggs (uncredited)
Un científico está realizando unos experimentos para conseguir un nuevo rayo láser con el que ayudar a la humanidad, pero para ello necesita un elemento llamado Radium X. En su búsqueda viaja África con su esposa, pero las radiaciones que recibe van cambiando poco a poco su carácter.
Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
Emily Judson
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Gertie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
Nellie
Es el año 1898. El compositor Sid Barnett (D. Woods) logra que su novia Adeline Schmidt (I. Dunne), una cantante sin fama que trabaja en una cervecería, pueda entrar en la nueva opereta de Broadway, lo que enfurece a Elysia (W. Shaw), la estrella de antaño.
Susie Flamberg
Anna Mirelle, la encargada del mantenimiento de un edificio de apartamentos en el centro de París, habla tanto por teléfono con Julian De Lussac, un atareado hombre de negocios, que acaba enamorándose de él. Gracias a sus habilidades técnicas, descubrirá un complot contra Julian del que solo ella puede salvarle.
Muriel
Mary quiere convertirse en cantante de ópera y empieza a recibir clases del maestro Guilio Monteverdi. Poco a poco ambos se irán enamorando. (FILMAFFINITY)
Annette
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Carmela Ramirez
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.
Dinah McCabe
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.
Corie
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
Mamie
Cuatro jóvenes hermanas realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. Van creciendo y abandonando, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear sus propias familias. Sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora. A pesar de la sensación que tiene de que ya ha terminado su tiempo de felicidad, sigue escribiendo y consigue publicar su primera obra.
Sister Sagrario
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?
Annette
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.
Irma
Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)
Sue
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Sue Wells
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Miss Wood
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Gwen
Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.
