Constance Purdy
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Constance Purdy.
Born: September 3, 1887
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
Double Indemnity
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Scarlet Street
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Shadow of a Doubt
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Spellbound
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Now, Voyager
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Cluny Brown
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
True to Life
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Vacation in Reno
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Filmography
as Guest (uncredited)
as Stout Lady (uncredited)
as Second Dowager
as Gushing Woman (uncredited)
as Mrs. Neyhmer (uncredited)
as Mrs. Kelsey Chelsae Blackwell
as Ruth Laverty (uncredited)
as Landlady (uncredited)
as Suffragette
as Eleanor's Mother
as Lady Outside Bookstore
as Matron (uncredited)
as Dr. Brulov's Housekeeper (uncredited)
as Mrs. Moriarty (uncredited)
as Mrs. Bradstreet
as Undetermined (uncredited)
as Woman in Ladies Spa (uncredited)
as Woman in Daley's Office (Uncredited)
as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
as Shopper in Market (uncredited)
as Mrs. Quimp's Neighbor (uncredited)
as Mother (In Law)
as Woman in Subway (uncredited)
as Blossom
as School Board Member (uncredited)
as Mrs. Martin (uncredited)
as Rosa (uncredited)
as Widder Abernathy
as Cafe Owner's Wife