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Lela Bliss (May 11, 1896 – May 15, 1980) was an American actress. She made her first silent film, Pretty Mrs. Smith, in 1915 and appeared in at least over 40 movies until the 1960s. Bliss appeared in supporting roles and bit parts in Hollywood films such as The Dark Mirror (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and Intruder in the Dust (1949). She often played mothers, neighbours or society women. Since the 1950s, Bliss also appeared frequently on popular television shows including “My Little Margie” as Trixie Wilson, the mother of Margie’s boyfriend in the 1952 episode “Vern’s Chums”, The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Mister Ed and The Addams Family. She ended her acting career with a guest role in That Girl in 1967.
Lela Bliss Biography / Wiki
Name | Lela Bliss |
Also Know | Lella Bliss, Lela Bliss-Hayden |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Date of Birth | 1896-05-11 |
Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
Deathday | 1980-05-15 |
Lela Bliss Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Home on the Rage | Mrs. Clyde (as Leila Bliss) | 1938-12-09 | Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance…. |
Ghost Chasers | Margo | 1951-04-29 | A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor…. |
Gas House Kids Go West | Mrs. Crowley | 1947-06-12 | The second of three “Bowery Boys” rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation…. |
Hook a Crook | Mrs. Van Sickle (uncredited) | 1955-11-24 | Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur c… |
The Dark Mirror | Mrs. Didriksen | 1946-10-17 | A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one’s the killer…. |
To Please a Lady | Regina’s Secretary | 1950-10-13 | Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain an… |
Intruder in the Dust | Mrs. Mallison | 1949-11-22 | Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a … |
The Big Tip Off | Mrs. Marshall | 1955-03-20 | A newspaper man uses a mobster’s tips to get the scoop on gangster activities…. |
The Blue Gardenia | Miss Stanley | 1953-03-20 | Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah’s … |
Without Reservations | Bertha Randall (uncredited) | 1946-05-13 | Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don’t… |
Hitch Hike To Heaven | Nadia De La Ney | 1936-03-12 | A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk…. |
Give My Regards to Broadway | Mrs. Boyd | 1948-06-08 | A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical…. |
Three for Jamie Dawn | Mrs. Hopp | 1956-07-08 | An unscrupulous attorney attempts to rig the jury vote in a murder trial. Released in 1956…. |
The Amazing Mr. Williams | Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited) | 1939-11-22 | Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor’s secretary. Or isn’t he rather married with his job? For … |
Miracle on 34th Street | Mrs. Shellhammer (uncredited) | 1947-06-04 | Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy’s following his performance in the Thanksgivin… |
Bells Are Ringing | Party guest | 1960-06-23 | Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others’ lives and adds some interest to… |
Miss Mink of 1949 | Phoebe | 1949-02-11 | Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget…. |
Susan Slept Here | Intoxicated Woman in Elevator (uncredited) | 1954-07-28 | On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer’s block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Ma… |
Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Mrs. Hanover-Burke (uncredited) | 1955-06-30 | Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her…. |
Auntie Mame | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1958-12-04 | Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. “Life is a banquet,” Mame say… |
Ask Any Girl | Mrs. Webson (uncredited) | 1959-08-21 | Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Sta… |
The Snake Pit | Miss Greene | 1948-11-04 | Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an… |
Young Man with Ideas | Mrs. Tom Hanley (uncredited) | 1952-05-02 | A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children…. |
The Opposite Sex | Wealthy Matron (uncredited) | 1956-11-15 | Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to … |
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