Gladys George was an American actress.
George went on the stage at the age of 3 and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on stage in the 1920s, although she had made several films in the early part of that decade. She starred in Personal Appearance, a comedy by Lawrence Riley. This role was reprised by Mae West in the classic film, Go West, Young Man, which West adapted from the play. In 1936 George was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie.
George’s Broadway credits include The Distant City, Lady in Waiting, and The Betrothal.
Her only other first billed roles were in Madame X (1937) and Love is a Headache.[6] She also appeared in The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Way of All Flesh (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and He Ran All the Way (1951). She played the widow of Miles Archer (Iva Archer) in The Maltese Falcon and Mme. Du Barry in Marie Antoinette.
Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story, and Lullaby of Broadway as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day’s wholesome character.
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Gladys George Biography / Wiki
Name | Gladys George |
Also Know | Gladys Clare Evans, Ð“Ð»ÐµÐ´Ñ–Ñ Ð”Ð¶Ð¾Ñ€Ð´Ð¶, ГлÑÐ´Ð¸Ñ Ð”Ð¶Ð¾Ñ€Ð´Ð¶, Ð“Ð»ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ñ Ðорџ |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Patten, Maine, U.S. |
Date of Birth | 1900-09-13 |
Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
Deathday | 1954-12-08 |
Gladys George Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Madame X | Jacqueline Fleuriot / Miss Pran / Madame X | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie | Carrie Snyder | 1936-10-06 | Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, … |
Hit the Road | Molly Ryan | 1941-06-27 | Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war…. |
Love Is a Headache | Carlotta ‘Charlie’ Lee | 1938-01-14 | A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her k… |
Millie’s Daughter | Millie Maitland | 1947-03-20 | An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle…. |
They Gave Him a Gun | Rose Duffy | 1937-05-07 | With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use…. |
Steppin’ in Society | Penelope Webster | 1945-07-09 | In this crime comedy, a prominent judge’s vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he i… |
Minstrel Man | Mae White | 1944-01-02 | Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is … |
I’m from Missouri | Julie Bliss | 1939-04-06 | Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to bu… |
The Way of All Flesh | Anna Kriza | 1940-07-05 | Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so… |
The Crystal Ball | Madame Zenobia | 1943-01-22 | A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance…. |
A Child Is Born | Florette Laverne | 1939-12-07 | A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward…. |
Nobody’s Darling | Eve Hawthorne | 1943-08-27 | Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the up… |
The House That Jazz Built | Lila Drake | 1921-04-01 | Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn’t want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chor… |
The Roaring Twenties | Panama Smith | 1939-10-28 | After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl… |
Undercover Girl | Liz | 1950-11-02 | After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers…. |
Straight Is the Way | Shirley | 1934-08-10 | Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies…. |
Alias a Gentleman | Madge Parkson | 1948-02-03 | Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters…. |
He Ran All the Way | Mrs. Robey | 1951-06-20 | A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment…. |
Christmas Holiday | Valerie de Merode | 1944-07-31 | Don’t be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It’s a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin ma… |
Flamingo Road | Lute Mae Sanders | 1949-04-30 | A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society…. |
The Hard Way | Lily Emery | 1943-01-13 | Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty…. |
Lullaby of Broadway | Jessica Howard | 1951-03-26 | Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful… |
The House Across the Bay | Mary Bogel | 1940-03-01 | Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing S… |
The Lady from Cheyenne | Elsie | 1941-04-11 | Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women’s suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes … |
Here I Am a Stranger | Clara Paulding | 1939-09-29 | The story of a young man’s discovery of his father…. |
Below the Surface | Alice | 1920-06-08 | A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunk… |
Silver City | Mrs. Barber | 1951-12-01 | Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to … |
The Maltese Falcon | Iva Archer | 1941-10-18 | A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette…. |
Bright Leaf | Rose | 1950-06-16 | Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market…. |
The Romance of Celluloid | Self | 1937-08-26 | Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are… |
Detective Story | Miss Hatch | 1951-11-01 | Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci… |
Marie Antoinette | Mme. du Barry | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
The Woman in the Suitcase | Ethel | 1920-01-11 | Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father’s suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to… |
The Best Years of Our Lives | Hortense Derry | 1946-12-25 | It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive… |
It Happens Every Thursday | Mrs. Holmes | 1953-04-22 | New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problem… |
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