Georgia Backus
Acting
Biography
Georgia Belden Backus was an American character actress on stage, radio and screen. She was also a writer, director and producer of radio dramas. In 1930 she was named dramatic director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to guide the development of the new art of the radio play.
Born: October 12, 1900
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Known For
Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
No Man of Her Own
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
I Married a Witch
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
Too Late for Tears
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
The Moon Is Down
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Force of Evil
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Force of Evil
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Filmography
as Duenna Concepcion
as Mrs. Keon
as Mrs. Warren
as Martha Bassett
as Mrs. Sylvia Morse (uncredited)
as Sylvia Morse (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Woman (uncredited)
as Edna
as WAC Maj. Cheever
as Villager (uncredited)
as Toy Shop Clerk
as Miss Peel
as Older Woman (uncredited)
as Matron (uncredited)
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
as Townswoman
as Nurse (uncredited)
as German Secretary
as Bertha Anderson
as Nurse
as Mrs. Kern (uncredited)