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    Blanche Yurka (born Blanch Jurka; June 19, 1887 – June 6, 1974) was an American stage and film actress and director. She was an opera singer with minor...
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  • Yurka may refer to: Yurka, Iran, a village 8781 Yurka, an asteroid Blanche Yurka, an American actress This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • include Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Lucille La Verne, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall and Donald Woods. It was directed by Jack Conway...
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  • directed by Henry Levin and starring Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka and Barton MacLane. A Romani princess descended from Marie LaTour has...
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    (1886–1972), president of General Electric Francis Wilson (1854–1935), actor Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), theatre and film actress Herbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U...
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    New York on March 26, 1960, and was cremated in Hartsdale, New York. Blanche Yurka (1922 - 1926) Ethel Clayton (1928 - 1931) Fern Andra (m. in 1932 and...
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  • theater producer Arthur J. Beckhard, and was directed by stage actress Blanche Yurka. The show was playwright McGrath’s only Broadway play and closed after...
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    18-year-old Davis saw a production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle. Davis later recalled, "The reason I wanted to go...
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    naval architect. Blanche Walsh (1873–1915), American actress Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), American stage and film actress and director Blanche, an ostrich villager...
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    Edith Barrett as Croisine Bouhouhorts Sig Ruman as Louis Bouriette Blanche Yurka as Bernarde Casterot, Bernadette's aunt Ermadean Walters as Marie Soubirous...
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    like Peg Entwistle." Some years later, Broadway actress and director Blanche Yurka sent a note to Davis asking if she would like to play Hedvig, and Davis...
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  • Maureen O'Sullivan, Marie Prevost, Thelma Todd, Marie Windsor, and Blanche Yurka. Danko referred to her stunts as "bump work", and received the standard...
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    Madison, Maine during 1926, with staging by Howard Lindsay, and starring Blanche Yurka. The Squall was then produced for Broadway by A. L. Jones and Morris...
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  • Uncle Pio's telling of the story. Juniper goes on to visit the Abbess (Blanche Yurka). She tells him about the Marquesa, whose daughter eloped to Spain and...
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    1970, Susann made a brief return to the stage when she appeared in Blanche Yurka's off-Broadway revival of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot....
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  • Colorado State Insane Asylum. Film and television "Ma Webster", played by Blanche Yurka in the 1940 film Queen of the Mob is based on Barker. Changes in the...
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    Walker, Smith's boyhood friend and personal assistant; and actress Blanche Yurka, friend of Holman. Walker reported during the inquest that he heard...
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  • Donald Crisp 91 UK Actor How Green Was My Valley National Velvet June 6 Blanche Yurka 86 US Actress A Tale of Two Cities Queen of the Mob 10 Lewis R. Foster...
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  • (Richard Gaines), another resident; and the housekeeper, Mrs. Salter (Blanche Yurka). Loretta Young as Nancy Troy Brian Aherne as Jeff Troy Jeff Donnell...
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  • actress Blanche Yurka, who had played the same role in a radio production of the play. The following year, she traveled to Los Angeles and contacted Yurka, asking...
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    Reynolds John Bromfield as Clay Jeffords Wallace Ford as Scotty Hyslip Blanche Yurka as Herrera Mother Louis Jean Heydt as Bailey Frank Ferguson as Dr. Grieve...
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    Dauphin Jeff Chandler as Lon Bennett Jacques Bergerac as Pepe Dauphin Blanche Yurka as Louise Dauphin Carl Esmond as Andre Dauphin Fortunio Bonanova as...
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    in 1945. He briefly returned to the theatre in 1946, appearing with Blanche Yurka in Temper the Wind, in New York City. Beck died after battling Alzheimer's...
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  • as La Roche (uncredited) Roland Winters as Van Duyval (uncredited) Blanche Yurka as Madame Thillot (uncredited) Prohibited from mentioning the OSS in...
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    In the 1935 film A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by Blanche Yurka. In the 1958 film A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is played by...
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  • Bondi as Granny Tucker Percy Kilbride as Harmie Charles Kemper as Tim Blanche Yurka as Mama Tucker Norman Lloyd as Finley Estelle Taylor as Lizzie Paul...
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  • George Tobias as Pinky Jerome Cowan as Dutch Lee Patrick as Gladys Blanche Yurka as Mrs. Nash George Lloyd as Goldie Joyce Compton as Lilly Thurston...
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    William Wyler Jane Wyman Ed Wynn Keenan Wynn Lillian Yarbo Loretta Young Robert Young Roland Young Blanche Yurka Darryl F. Zanuck Vera Zorina George Zucco...
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  • Beulah Bondi, Pepe Hern, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Myrna Dell psychological Western...
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  • the premiere episode of the CBS Radio series The Orson Welles Show. Blanche Yurka portrayed Mrs. De Ropp, with Conrad Binyon as Conradin and Brenda Forbes...
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