Blanche Friderici
Blanche Friderici ( born January 21, 1878 in Brooklyn, New York, † December 23, 1933 in Visalia, California ) was an American actress.
Life
Blanche Friderici made her Broadway debut in 1914 in the play Omar, the Tentmaker. They played there until 1927 in nine plays, including the role of the pastor's wife, Mrs. Davidson in Rain successful play, which was performed a total of 648 times. She played this role in the film adaptation of the play ... but the flesh is weak, what the character actress came to Hollywood in 1928. Overall, she stepped up to her death on 60 films. Mostly they played dominant and strict women, so in Flying Down to Rio and in another country. One of her most notable appearances they had in the pre- Code movie The Office Wife, where she played a lesbian writer. In Night Nurse by William A. Wellman, she embodied a housekeeper, the two children in their fear not in front of a ruthless gangster ( Clark Gable ) can protect them. Fridericis last film, It Happened One Night by Frank Capra, was not published until after her death and won five Oscars.
She died in the presence of her husband Donald Campbell in the car of a heart attack while they were on their way to a Christmas fair. She was 55 years old.