What a Character! blogathon contributions, 2012 -
by misspaddylee | created - 12 Jan 2021 | updated - 05 Dec 2021 | Publiche What a Character! blogathon hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula's Cinema Club is an annual celebration of character actors.
1. Lucile Watson
Actress | Watch on the Rhine
Unsmiling character player Lucile Watson was one of Hollywood's most indomitable mothers of the 1930s and 1940s...and you can take that both ways. The archetypal matriarch who enhanced scores of plush, soapy, Victorian-styled drama, her prickly pears could be insufferable indeed and heaven help ...
PART 2: MAUDE EBURNE Posted September 23, 2012 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2012/09/what-character-blogathon-canadian.html
2. Joyce Grenfell
Actress | Stage Fright
Toothy, oval-faced Britisher Joyce Grenfell with her stark, equine features charmed and humored audiences both here and abroad on radio, stage, film and TV for nearly four decades. Lovingly remembered as a delightfully witty revue artist, monologist and raconteur, she inherited her bold talents ...
Posted November 10, 2013 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2013/11/what-character-blogathon-joyce-grenfell.html
3. Esther Dale
Actress | Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Esther Dale was born on November 10, 1885 in Beaufort, South Carolina. She attended Leland and Gray Seminary in Townsend, Vermont, then studied music in Berlin, Germany and had a successful career as a lieder singer. Later, she became an actress in summer stock. She had the title role on Broadway ...
Posted November 17, 2014 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2014/11/what-character-blogathon-esther-dale.html
4. Harry Carey
Actor | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Born in New York City to a Judge of Special Sessions who was also president of a sewing machine company. Grew up on City Island, New York. Attended Hamilton Military Academy and turned down an appointment to West Point to attend New York Law School, where his law school classmates included future ...
PART 2: HARRY CAREY, JR. Posted November 21, 2015 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2015/11/what-character-blogathon-harry-carey.html
5. Cora Witherspoon
Actress | Piccadilly Jim
A delightfully irksome, viper-tongued presence who usually played older than she was, actress Cora Witherspoon began her five-decade career in New York playing an elderly lady in the 1910 production of "The Concert". She was 20 years old at the time. Born in 1890, the brown-haired, Louisiana-born ...
Posted December 17, 2016 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2016/12/the-what-character-blogathon-cora.html
6. John Alexander
Actor | Arsenic and Old Lace
Making his stage debut at age 16, John Alexander joined a Shakespearean repertory company and in 1917 appeared on Broadway in "The Merchant of Venice." Although he played many parts on both stage and in films, his best known role was that of the crazed Teddy Brewster--the son who thinks he's ...
Posted December 15, 2017 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/12/what-character-blogathon-john-alexander.html
7. Jack Lambert
Actor | The Killers
American character actor specializing in tough guys and heavies. A native of Yonkers, New York. He worked on the Broadway stage and then became an increasingly familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas, after World War II. Although almost as familiar a presence in films as his contemporaries ...
Posted December 14, 2018 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2018/12/what-character-blogathon-villainy-of.html
8. George Zucco
Actor | Fog Island
At 22, George Zucco decided to begin his stage career in earnest in the Canadian provinces in 1908. In the course of the following decade, he also performed in an American vaudeville tour with his young wife, Frances, in a routine called "The Suffragette." As World War I grew in scale, Zucco ...
Posted November 15, 2019 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2019/11/what-character-blogathon-george-zucco.html
9. Harry Cording
Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Harry Cording was born on April 26, 1891 in Wellington, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Narcotic (1933) and Gypsy Wildcat (1944). He was married to Margaret Fiero. He died on September 1, 1954 in Sun Valley, California, USA.
Posted December 4, 2020 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2020/12/what-character-blogathon-harry-cording.html
10. Kathleen Harrison
Actress | Scrooge
Although British actress Kathleen Harrison was born in 1892 in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, she was fondly known for her cockney characters throughout her career. Trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she first married and lived overseas in Argentina for nearly eight years...
Posted December 4, 2021 https://www.caftanwoman.com/2021/12/what-character-blogathon-kathleen.html
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