Beulah Bondi
Beulah Bondi ( May 3, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 11, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress.
Life
As a child, Beulah Bondi grew up in Valparaiso ( Indiana) and in the 1910s she attended the Valparaiso University. She began her career as a theater actress and made it to 1925 Broadway. After numerous theater hits in the years that followed, she was hired in 1931 for her first film. Bondi played in the films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially the mothers of the main character, later their grandmothers. James Stewart's mother played four times, including in the classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Is not life beautiful?
She also continued playing on the stages of Broadway. She was nominated twice for an Oscar, so 1936. Two years later for her portrayal of the wife of U.S. President Andrew Jackson in The Gorgeous Hussy from the year she was again nominated for Of Human Hearts. Decades later received almost 90 -year-old Bondi for her guest appearance in the family series The Waltons in 1977 an Emmy. Beulah Bondi died on 11 January 1981 at the age of 92 years to lung problems they had suffered in a fall on her cat.