Lillian Yarbo
Acting
Biography
Lillian Yarbo is an actress, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Great Man's Lady (1942).
Born: March 17, 1905
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known For
Rainbow on the River
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Destry Rides Again
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Stella Dallas
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
The Naughty Nineties
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
The Great Man's Lady
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Filmography
as Josephine
as Psyche
as Hotel Maid (uncredited)
as Effie - Bonita's Cook (uncredited)
as Maid (uncredited)
as Myrtlee
as Polly
as Rosa - Isobel's Maid
as Phoebe, the Maid
as Daisy
as Mandy
as Juline - the Maid
as Lucinda
as Eleanor's Maid (uncredited)
as Chloe, Lana's Maid (uncredited)
as Queenie (uncredited)
as Maid
as Clara
as Janie
as Maid
as Maid (uncredited)
as Blossom
as Mary (uncredited)
as Maid
as Mattie Harriett
as Beauty Parlor Maid
as Magnolia
as Rheba
as Mrs. Washington (uncredited)
as Creola
as Scarlett
as Gladys (uncredited)
as Seline (uncredited)