Mary Boland

Mary Boland

Nacimiento : 1880-01-28, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1965-06-23

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mary Boland (January 28, 1882 – June 23, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Boland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Mary Boland

Películas

Guilty Bystander
Smitty
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Julia se porta mal
Mrs. Gheneccio
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
Forever Yours
Aunt Mary
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
Nothing But Trouble
Mrs. Hawkley
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
In Our Time
Mrs. Bromley
Melodrama de tintes patrióticos, que transcurre en los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando la joven Jennifer contrae matrimonio con un conde polaco llamado Stephan. Al entrar las tropas nazis en Varsovia, la situación para la pareja cambia radicalmente. A partir de ahora deberán defender su tierra, aun a costa de sus vidas.
Noche en el trópico
Aunt Kitty Marblehead
¡Romance AL RITMO DE LA RUMBA ... en este musical mágico de la alegría! La notable película de Abbott y Costello por ser la primera. El equipo juegan un papel de menor importancia, pero robar el cuadro con cinco rutinas clásicas, incluyendo una versión abreviada de "¿Quién es primero?"
Hit Parade of 1941
Emily Potter
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
Más fuerte que el orgullo
Mrs. Bennet
Elizabeth (Greer Garson) es una de las 5 hermanas Bennet, que están deseando casarse. Darcy (Lawrence Olivier) es un joven apuesto que se instala en una finca cercana y hace latir los corazones de todas las chicas. De todas menos en el caso de Elizabeth, con la que desde el primer encuentro se lleva fatal. Este será el inicio de una historia basada en la lucha discreta y elegante de orgullo y prejuicio, de percepción y realidad, de perdón y de amor.
Luna llena
Valerie de Rossac
Marianne de Beaumaniour está de camino a Nueva Orleans desde París para inspeccionar la plantación que heredó de su tío. En el barco viajan también algunos esclavos para ser vendidos. Charles, Duque de Villiers, un enemigo político del rey, también está a bordo haciéndose pasar por esclavo. El jefe de la plantación de Marianne compra a Charles y éste pronto la seduce con su encanto. Marianne descubre rápidamente la verdadera identidad de Charles y le deja en libertad, antes de que los oficiales franceses le encuentren. Marianne decide volver a París con el Capitán de Policía, a bordo del barco “Luna Llena”, pero deben hacer escala en la Martinica. Después de la Martinica, el barco es asaltado por los piratas. Marianne queda conmocionada al ver que Charles es el líder de los piratas. Esa noche, una dura tormenta les azota, y todo se hunde. Ahora Charles es el líder y la diversión acaba de comenzar….
He Married His Wife
Ethel
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Mujeres
The Countess De Lave
Un grupo de mujeres pasan la mayor parte del día entre salones de belleza y tiendas de ropa, siempre murmurando, con cotilleos y rumores. De repente, una de ellas descubre que su marido se ve a escondidas con una dependienta. Esta situación provoca un escándalo entre sus amigas, produciéndose diversas situaciones de celos, envidias y rumores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Night Work
Sybil Fitch
El abuelo de un muchacho adoptado llega a la casa de la familia y decide que no es adecuada para educar a su nieto.
The Magnificent Fraud
Mme. Geraldine Genet
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Hijos a prueba
Sybil Fitch
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
Artists and Models Abroad
Mrs. Isabel Channing
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
Little Tough Guys in Society
Mrs. Berry
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
There Goes the Groom
Mrs. Genevieve Pearson Russell
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
Amor en la oficina
Mrs. Alice Pemberton
Un abogado de Nueva York establece una relación de negocios con una estrafalaria familia de Carolina del Sur y acaba enamorándose de la única hija "normal" dentro de la familia.
Marry the Girl
Ollie Radway
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
College Holiday
Carola P. Gaye
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Wives Never Know
Marcia Bigelow
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Early to Bed
Tessie Weeks Beatty
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Cazadores de estrellas
Mrs. Sealingsworth
El propietario de una emisora de radio es secuestrado por una admiradora, una condesa insaciable.
Two for Tonight
Mrs. Smythe
Gilbert Gordon es un compositor que solo tiene de plazo una semana para terminar un musical de Broadway. En su camino para encontrar la inspiración necesaria hallará a una revoltosa muchacha que pilota un avión y que va a estrellarse cerca de donde él se encuentra.
People Will Talk
Clarice Wilton
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
Nobleza obliga
Effie Floud
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
The Pursuit of Happiness
Comfort Kirkland
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Down to Their Last Yacht
Queen of Malakamokalu, 'Queenie'
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.
Here Comes the Groom
Mrs. Widden
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
Stingaree
Mrs. Clarkson
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Melody in Spring
Mary Blodgett
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Six of a Kind
Flora Whinney
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
Náufragos en la jungla
Mrs. Mardick
Cuatro pasajeros de un crucero de placer en que se declaró peste bubónica, escapan a la costa malaya, donde se ven obligados a hacerse guiar por Montague (Leo Carrillo). La maestra de escuela Judy Jones (Claudette Colbert) se ve más preocupada por tener que dormir cerca de sus dos compañeros de expedición, el periodista Stewart Corder (William Gargan) y un tímido bioquímico (Herbert Marshall) que por los tenebrosos peligros de la jungla. La dama de sociedad Fifi Mardick (Mary Boland) completa el cuarteto, que se termina extraviando tras tres días de marcha. Las peleas internas, las inclemencias del tiempo y la aparición de una tribu de nativos que exigen el pago de un tributo para permitirles el paso, ponen tenso pero simpático condimento a semejante desventura.
The Solitaire Man
Mrs. Zelma Hopkins
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Three-Cornered Moon
Mrs. Nellie Rimpleger
Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.
Mama Loves Papa
Jessie Todd
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Si yo tuviera un millón
Mrs. Peabody
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.
Evenings for Sale
Jenny Kent
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
The Night of June 13
Mazie Strawn
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
Personal Maid
Mrs. Otis Gary
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
Secrets of a Secretary
Mrs. Merritt
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.