Blanche Friderici
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: September 12, 1873
Place of Birth: Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Known For
It Happened One Night
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Ten Cents a Dance
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
State's Attorney
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.
Night Nurse
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Sadie Thompson
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.
Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
The Night Club Lady
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Filmography
as Zeke's Wife
as Miss Haskell
as Elena De Rezende
as Rosalie
as Aunt Katherine
as Peg Forney
as Mrs. Wagner
as Countess
as Mrs. Hume
as Mrs. Van
as Martha Marlowe
as Jane Jett
as Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)
as Head Nurse
as Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)
as Miss Blazer (uncredited)
as Miss Kirsten
as Mrs. Carewe
as Third Aunt
as Mary
as Night Court Judge (uncredited)
as Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)
as Librarian Margaret Gordon
as Nora
as Madame Si-Si (uncredited)
as Sister Angelica
as Mme. Boris
as Mrs. Johnson
as Lady Allice
as Letty Randolph
as Mrs. Weston
as Julia Endicott
as Mrs. Maxwell
as Mrs. Temple
as Mrs. Blanchard
as Mam' Pleasant
as Narjis
as Mrs. McSween
as Kate Halsey
as Mrs. Miller
as Aunt Caroline
as Madame Durand
as Martha
as Lady Teel (uncredited)
as Mrs. McAndrews
as Ma
as Mrs. Peters
as Miss Potter the Nurse
as Mrs. Langley
as Mrs. Leeson
as Tromholt's Housekeeper
as Aunt Evvie
as Furja
as Miss Chapman
as Mrs. Alfred Davidson
as Miss McMasters