Thursday, 30 December 2021

Pat Clark

Born: 1925, New York, USA
Died: unknown
 
Night and Day (1946) as Specialty Trio Member (uncredited)
 
Left to right: Jane Harker, Paula Drew and Pat Clark. Cary Grant sits at the piano.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cass Timberlane (1947) as Alice Wargate

A credited role for Pat Clark but no dialogue.















Wednesday, 29 December 2021

Jane Harker

Born: 1 August 1922, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died: 21 July 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 
Night and Day (1946) as Specialty Trio Member (uncredited)
 
Left to right: Jane Harker, Paula Drew and Pat Clark. Cary Grant sits at the piano.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
So You Want to Hold Your Wife (1947) as Alice McDoakes (uncredited)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, 28 December 2021

Pearl Sindelar

Born: 5 February 1881, Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Died: 9 July 1958, Glendale, California, USA
 
Pearl Sindelar was a silent screen actress who was married to commercial artist and occasional actor Charles Sindelar.
 
Cleopatra (1912) as Iras - An Attendant (Credited as Miss Sindelar)


















Helen Gardner

Born: 2 September 1884, Binghamton, New York, USA
Died: 20 November 1968, Orlando, Florida, USA

Cleopatra (1912) as Cleopatra (Credited as Miss Gardner)

Standing on the left is Charles Sindelar.

















Mary Brian

Born: 17 February 1906, Corsicana, Texas, USA
Died: 30 December 2002, Del Mar, California, USA
 
Brown of Harvard (1926) as Mary Abbott
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, 20 December 2021

Kathleen Burke

Born: 5 September 1913, Hammond, Indiana, USA
Died: 9 April 1980, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
Island of Lost Souls (1932) as The Panther Woman
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sunday, 19 December 2021

Barbara Bozoky

Born: 10 November 1871, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died: 29 November 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cornelia Thaw

Born: 18 November 1908, Texas, USA
Died: 1 March 1981, Santa Cruz, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Bride of Dracula (uncredited)
 
Left to right: Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

















Geraldine Dvorak

Born: 1 January 1904, Texas, USA
Died: 25 April 1985, Orange County, California, USA

Dracula (1931) as Bride of Dracula (uncredited)

Left to right: Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw.


































Dorothy Tree

Born: 21 May 1906, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: 13 February 1992, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Bride of Dracula (uncredited)
 
Left to right: Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nicholas Bela

Born: 18 July 1900, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Died: 18 November 1963, New York City, New York, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Coach Passenger (uncredited)
 
Carla Laemmle is on the right with the glasses. Daisy Belmore sits next to Carla. Dwight Frye has his back to us.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Joan Standing

Born: 21 June 1903, Worcestershire, England, UK
Died: 3 February 1979, Houston, Texas, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Nurse Briggs
 
In the opening credits, Joan Standing is erroneously credited as 'Maid'.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Saturday, 18 December 2021

Moon Carroll

Born: 30 October 1892, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 16 January 1982, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
 
Moon Carroll was a Broadway actress who made a handful of film appearances in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
 
Dracula (1931) as Maid (uncredited)
 
With Bela Lugosi.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



















Herbert Bunston

Born: 15 April 1874, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 27 February 1935, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Doctor Seward
 
Herbert Bunston is on the left, with an unidentified actor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

David Manners

Born: 30 April 1901, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 23 December 1998, Santa Barbara, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as John Harker
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dwight Frye

Born: 22 February 1899, Salina, Kansas, USA
Died: 7 November 1943, Hollywood, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Renfield
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




















Frankenstein (1931) as Fritz



















Charles K. Gerrard

Born: 20 December 1883, Carlow, Ireland
Died: 1 January 1969, New York City, New York, USA
 
Another Fine Mess (1930) as Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree (uncredited)
 
With Thelma Todd.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dracula (1931) as Martin (Credited as Charles Gerrard)
 
With Dwight Frye behind him.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Frances Dade

Born: 14 February 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 21 January 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 
Frances Dade was a stage actress in the late 1920s. In 1930 Frances appeared in her first credited film role and went on to feature in only a handful of films in the early 1930s before retiring from acting in 1932. She was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1931.
 
Dracula (1931) as Lucy Weston
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 















 

Friday, 17 December 2021

Anita Harder

Born: 6 April 1905, California, USA
Died: 15 January 1987, Santa Barbara, California, USA
 
Dracula (1931) as Flower Seller (uncredited)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Gay Emma

Born: 21 November 1947, Bristol, England, UK
 
Badger's Bend: The Animal Hotel - Episode 1 (1963) (Series 1, Episode 1) as Betsy Alder
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With Geoffrey Russell.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, 6 December 2021

Tommy Mack

Born: 26 February 1898, New York, USA
Died: 8 November 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Zenobia (1939) as Butcher
 
This was probably Tommy Mack's most famous role, in which he manages to faint...twice!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nigel De Brulier

Born: 8 August 1877, Frenchay, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Died: 30 January 1948, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Zenobia (1939) as Townsman at Zeke's Recital (uncredited)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Clem Bevans

Born: 16 October 1879, Cozaddale, Ohio, USA
Died: 11 August 1963, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Zenobia (1939) as Sheriff
 
Clem Bevans is on the right, with Harry Langdon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Gallant Bess (1946) as Smitty


















Sunday, 5 December 2021

Alice Brady

Born: 2 November 1892, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 28 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA

Betsy Ross (1917) as Betsy Griscom


















 
Zenobia (1939) as Mrs. Carter
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jean Parker

Born: 11 August 1915, Butte, Montana, USA
Died: 30 November 2005, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
Zenobia (1939) as Mary Tibbett
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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