Norma Varden Shackleton (20 January 1898 – 19 January 1989), known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career.
Norma Varden Biography / Wiki
| Name | Norma Varden |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1898-01-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 90 |
| Deathday | 1989-01-19 |
Norma Varden Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Where There’s a Will | Lady Margaret Wimpleton | 1936-08-10 | Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with hi… |
| Windbag the Sailor | Olivia Potter-Porter | 1936-12-01 | Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catc… |
| Get Off My Foot | Mrs. Rawlingcourt | 1935-11-12 | A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune…. |
| Shipyard Sally | Lady Patricia Randall | 1939-09-30 | A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them … |
| Foreign Affaires | Mrs. Hardy Hornett | 1935-11-21 | An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!… |
| Wanted! | Mrs. Smithers | 1937-08-23 | A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves ar… |
| Rhythm Racketeer | Mrs. Della Nash | 1937-10-01 | A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double…. |
| Boys Will Be Boys | Lady Dorking | 1935-07-01 | Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who ha… |
| In the Money | Mrs. Smythe-Chumley | 1958-02-16 | The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise…. |
| Stormy Weather | 1935-08-01 | Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continua… | |
| Millie’s Daughter | Mrs. Sarah Harris | 1947-03-20 | An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle…. |
| 13 Frightened Girls | Miss Pittford | 1963-04-18 | While attending a Swiss school for diplomats’ daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engag… |
| Loose in London | Aunt Agatha | 1953-05-24 | The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he’s inherited a title…. |
| Flying with Music | Miss Mullens | 1942-05-22 | The “Flyer” in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with severa… |
| Turkey Time | Ernestine Stoatt | 1933-12-01 | A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished co… |
| The Cheaters | Mattie | 1945-07-15 | An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicate… |
| Mademoiselle Fifi | The Wholesaler’s Wife | 1944-07-28 | In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu… |
| The Earl of Chicago | Maureen Kilmount | 1940-01-05 | A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley…. |
| What a Woman | Miss Timmons | 1943-12-29 | An author (Willard Parker) and a literary agent (Rosalind Russell) become involved after selling film rights to his racy book…. |
| Those Endearing Young Charms | Mrs. Woods, Hall’s Floor Lady | 1945-06-19 | A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy…. |
| Scotland Yard | Lady Heathcote | 1941-04-03 | Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni… |
| East Meets West | Lady Mallory | 1936-08-26 | The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father’s heart by conducting an affair with … |
| The Amazing Mr. X | Wealthy looking woman | 1948-07-29 | On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf…then meets a tall dark ma… |
| Let’s Live a Little | Nurse Brady | 1948-12-09 | A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate … and his former fianc… |
| The Chance of a Night Time | Mrs. Rashley-Butcher (uncredited) | 1931-05-15 | Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée’s birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken f… |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Emily Jane French | 1957-12-17 | When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. … |
| Jupiter’s Darling | Fabia | 1955-02-18 | Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal (Howard Keel). While Rome’s ruler, Fabius Maximus (George Sanders), plots a defense against Hannib… |
| Hold That Blonde! | Flora Carteret | 1945-11-23 | Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another… |
| Girls of the Big House | Mrs. Thelma Holt | 1945-11-02 | A women’s prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b… |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Lady Beekman | 1953-07-14 | Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus’ rich father, Esmond Sr., who thin… |
| Five Minutes to Live | Priscilla Auerbach | 1961-12-07 | A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works…. |
| Adventure in Baltimore | Helen Hadley Hamilton | 1949-04-19 | Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl’s school who starts campaigning for women’s rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do … |
| National Velvet | Miss Sims | 1945-01-26 | Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv… |
| The Iron Duke | Duchess of Richmond | 1934-11-30 | The life and times of the Duke of Wellington… |
| Road to Zanzibar | Clara Kimble | 1941-04-11 | Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women…. |
| Doctor Dolittle | Lady Fetherington | 1967-12-05 | A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail…. |
| The Searching Wind | Mrs. Hayworth | 1946-08-09 | With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle’s 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Euro… |
| Fancy Pants | Lady Maude | 1950-07-19 | An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli… |
| Istanbul Express | Englishwoman | 1969-03-07 | An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu… |
| Evergreen | Barmaid (uncredited) | 1934-04-01 | Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears… |
| Doc | Mrs. Dobson | 1969-07-28 | An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can’t re… |
| Kisses for My President | Miss Disendorff | 1964-08-21 | When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for he… |
| Make-Up | Hostess | 1937-06-28 | Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an i… |
| Happy | Miss Stone, Secretary with Glasses | 1933-12-11 | A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful…. |
| The Student’s Romance | Dora Streudelmeier, Karl’s Aunt | 1935-01-01 | A Student’s Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825… |
| The Trouble with Women | Wilmer Dawson | 1947-06-25 | A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wif… |
| Strangers on a Train | Mrs. Cunningham | 1951-06-27 | A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion…. |
| Thunder on the Hill | Pierce | 1951-10-17 | Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becomin… |
| We Were Dancing | Mrs. Bryce-Carew | 1942-04-30 | A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s… |
| Dirty Work | Tiara Customer | 1934-12-07 | Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief…. |
| Young Bess | Lady Tyrwhitt | 1953-05-29 | The mother died under the executioner’s axe; the daughter rose to become England’s greatest monarch — the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je… |
| Sherlock Holmes Faces Death | Gracie the Barmaid (uncredited) | 1943-09-17 | During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master dete… |
| Mimi | Madame Durand | 1935-03-28 | A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought…. |
| The Secret Garden | Nurse | 1949-04-30 | When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she… |
| Glamour Boy | Mrs. Lee | 1941-12-05 | Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living … |
| Where There’s Life | Mabel Jones | 1947-11-21 | In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael… |
| Three Coins in the Fountain | Woman at Cocktail Party (uncredited) | 1954-05-01 | Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome’s magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a sec… |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Mrs. Bland | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| Music Hath Charms | Bit (uncredited) | 1936-03-02 | This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band…. |
| Island of Love | Wife in Nightclub (uncredited) | 1963-06-12 | Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony’s stripp… |
| The Miracle | Mrs. MacGregor (uncredited) | 1959-11-12 | A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves…. |
| Crime on the Hill | Editor’s Secretary | 1933-12-27 | In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man’… |
| Rome Adventure | Dean of Briarcroft College for Women (uncredited) | 1962-04-21 | Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job … |
| The Sound of Music | Frau Schmidt | 1965-03-29 | In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with s… |
| The Major and the Minor | Mrs. Osborne | 1942-09-16 | Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn’t enough money for th… |
| A Night Like This | Mrs. Tuckett(uncredited) | 1932-03-16 | Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne’er do well who is … |
| The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss | 1936-07-28 | A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance…. | |
| Random Harvest | Julia | 1942-12-17 | An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-… |
| The Green Years | Mrs. Bosomley | 1946-07-04 | An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy’s harsh grandfather stan… |
| Bring on the Girls | Martha Neely | 1945-03-30 | A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who’ll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote… |
| Forever Amber | Mrs. Abbott | 1947-10-10 | Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie… |
| The Buccaneer | Madame Hilaire | 1958-12-11 | During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will … |
| Dixie | Mrs. LaPlant (uncredited) | 1943-06-23 | A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music … |
| The Glass Key | Henrys’ Dinner Guest (uncredited) | 1942-09-08 | A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign…. |
| Fire Over England | Elena’s Governess (uncredited) | 1937-03-05 | The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti… |
| The Glorious Adventure | Court Lady (uncredited) | 1922-04-23 | An Earl’s cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London…. |
| Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid | (in “The Glass Key”) (archive footage) | 1982-05-21 | Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist… |
| Mr. District Attorney | Hat Saleswoman | 1941-03-27 | An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case…. |
| Johnny Doughboy | Miss Penticott | 1942-12-31 | A grown-up Jane Withers is joined by a whole slew of former child stars in the lightweight Republic musical Johnny Doughboy. Withers capably essays th… |
| Hollow Triumph | Mrs. Gerry (uncredited) | 1948-08-18 | Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results…. |
| Waterloo Bridge | Hostess at Restaurant (uncredited) | 1940-05-17 | On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young … |
| Casablanca | Wife of Pickpocketed Englishman (uncredited) | 1942-11-26 | In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications…. |
| Slightly Dangerous | Opera singer (uncredited) | 1943-04-01 | Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity…. |
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