Maude Eburne
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect." She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.
Born: November 10, 1875
Place of Birth: Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Party Wire
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
To Be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
There's One Born Every Minute
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Ruggles of Red Gap
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Blonde Crazy
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Vivacious Lady
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Panama Flo
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Sabotage
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men run, but the major shoots one of them.....
The Strawberry Blonde
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
Filmography
as Grandma
as Henrietta
as Old Dame at Wedding
as Mrs. Dexter
as Mrs. Randall
as Grandma Lane
as Mrs. Packer
as Judge Bingle
as Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn'
as Mame Alda
as Matilda Jenkins
as Granma Quill
as Woman on Cable Car (uncredited)
as Edna Counihan (Uncredited)
as Maggie (uncredited)
as Mother Hodges
as Sarah Harkins
as Amelia Jones
as Mrs. Norris
as Agatha
as Martha Bradley
as Mrs. Clayton
as Anna
as Mrs. Pickens
as Borax Betty
as Ella
as Mrs. Hastings
as Mrs. Willits
as Mrs. Hastings
as Mrs. Mulcahey's Friend (uncredited)
as Hurricane Hattie McGuire
as Mrs. Hastings
as Granny Scraggs
as Etta Mae
as Landlady (uncredited)
as Mrs. Hastings
as Mrs. Hastings
as Landlady (uncredited)
as Mrs. Hastings
as Widow Ella Jones
as Mrs. Hopkins
as Ma Hutchins
as Mrs. Smith
as Widow Ella Jones
as Mrs. Minnow
as Mrs. Magruder
as Mrs. Peggy Garth
as Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited)
as Nadya
as Mrs. Crump
as Violet Butler
as Maggie Casey
as Mrs. Basscombe
as Mrs. Scribner
as Maggie Devlin
as Sarah Tucker
as Belle Dugan
as Mariah Hoggins
as Phoebe Leavenworth
as Aunt Addie
as Little Ellen Purdy
as Clara West
as 'Ma' Pettingill
as Landlady
as Droopy's Mother
as Nell Peck
as Mrs. Elvery
as Miss Minnie Lescalle
as Mrs. Conway
as Mrs. Ryan, the Landlady
as Mrs. Jackson
as Mamma Watscheck
as Coroner's Wife
as Mme. Fifi
as Mrs. Glissen
as Buria
as Aunt Maggie
as Aunt Gussie Schnappmann
as Aunt Ellen
as Martha Jenkins
as Emily Livingston
as Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy
as Mrs. Jennings
as Aunt Charlotte
as Sadie
as Passenger at Information Desk (uncredited)
as Dowager Party Guest
as Rhoda
as Mrs. McCarthy
as Maid
as "Mama"
as Mrs. Snyder
as Mrs. Chauncey
as Mrs. Petrick
as Esther
as Aunt Kate
as Mrs. Mantel
as Lizzie Allen
as Coddles