Clara Blandick
Acting
Biography
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Born: June 4, 1876
Place of Birth: Onboard American ship in Hong Kong
Known For
Men Are Like That
A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.
Party Wire
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
It Started with Eve
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Child of Manhattan
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
The Girl from Missouri
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
So Goes My Love
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Claudia and David
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Filmography
as Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Liza, Silas' housekeeper
as Susan Balmuss
as Aunt Pewtie
as Miss Wiggins
as Stella Blendon
as Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
as Mrs. Meade
as Martha
as Mrs. Barry
as Grandma Wilson
as Belle Kincaid
as Abigail
as Aunt Cissy
as Mother Randall
as Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
as Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
as Woman on Train (uncredited)
as Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited)
as Tourist (uncredited)
as Sister Watkins (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Miss Phillips
as Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
as Mrs. Higgins
as Aunt Juliet Mitchell
as Mrs. Williams
as Miss Bradshaw
as Mrs. Burns
as Jessica Spencer
as Aunt Martha
as Grandmother
as Mrs. Griffin
as Mrs. Borst
as Miss Esther Jones
as Auntie Em
as Miss Watson
as Aunt Polly
as Ma Sisler
as Mrs. Green - Landlady
as Phoebe Sawyer
as Julia 'Granny' Blair
as Townswoman (uncredited)
as Willy's Mother
as Evie Curtis
as Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
as Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
as Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
as Louisa Abbott
as Mrs. Jorham
as Mary F. O'Daugherty
as Aunt Ellen
as Gaptown Landlady
as Mathilda Sherman
as Mrs. Anderson
as Eva Branham
as Aunt Maggie
as Aunt Margaret
as Mrs. Peterson
as Mrs. Douglas
as Mrs. Delling
as Miss Newberry
as Miss Gower
as Ma Lovewell
as Mrs. 'Ma'
as Cora
as Miss Murfee
as Ms. Perkins
as Anna, the Cook
as Minerva Winterslip
as Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
as Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
as Auntie (uncredited)
as Aunt Sophie
as Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
as Brida
as Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
as Mrs. West
as Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
as Mrs. Tarleton
as Mrs. Helen Livingston
as Mrs. Martin
as Mrs. Layton
as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
as Mrs. Sprig
as Aunt Polly
as Ranch Wife
as Salvation Army Woman
as Frau Hoffman
as Mrs. Stanton
as Aunt Abbie
as Agnes Murdock
as Madeleine's Mother (uncredited)
as Mrs. Mason
as Aunt Polly
as Mrs. Duane
as Abigail Armstrong
as Martha Wagenkampf
as Ma Fisher
as Mrs. Ward
as Mrs. Minnie Winkle
as Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
as Mrs. Bence
as Mrs. Donnelly
as Mrs. Rowley
as Mrs. Denton