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Laura Hope Crews is a Actor American born on 12 december 1879 at San Francisco (USA)

Laura Hope Crews

Laura Hope Crews
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 december 1879 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 13 november 1942 (at 62 years) at New York City (USA)

Laura Hope Crews (December 12, 1879 – November 12, 1942) was a leading actress of the American stage in the first decades of the 20th century who is best remembered today for her later work as a character actress in motion pictures of the 1930s. Her best-known film role was Aunt Pittypat in Gone with the Wind.

Biography

Au cinéma, Laura Hope Crews apparaît dans deux films muets en 1915, puis de 1929 à 1942, son rôle le plus connu étant sans doute celui de la Tante 'Pittypat' Hamilton dans Autant en emporte le vent (1939).

Elle est surtout très active au théâtre, jouant à Broadway entre 1903 (Merely Mary Ann) et 1942 (Arsenic et vieilles dentelles), principalement dans des pièces, mais aussi dans une comédie musicale (Jubilee, en 1935-1936, sur une musique de Cole Porter). De plus, elle est metteur en scène d'une autre comédie musicale en 1924 et d'une pièce en 1925.

Pour sa contribution au cinéma, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

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Filmography of Laura Hope Crews (38 films)

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Actress

The Rain People, 1h41
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Political films, Road movies
Actors James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight, Tom Aldredge, Laura Hope Crews, Eleanor Coppola
Roles Ellen
Rating67% 3.397523.397523.397523.397523.39752
Natalie Ravenna est femme au foyer. Mais lorsqu’elle découvre qu'elle est enceinte, elle ressent le besoin de s'évader de sa vie et de son mariage. Elle parcourt alors les routes des États-Unis. Elle fait la rencontre d'un homme simple, joueur de football, blessé, fidèle, et naïf, qu'elle prend en stop, et qui s'appelle Killer. Il lui parle des Gens de la pluie, des gens transparents faits de pluie, et qui se dissolvent lorsqu'ils pleurent. Il dit en avoir rencontré.
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1h52
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis, Billie Burke
Roles Fan
Rating74% 3.7459453.7459453.7459453.7459453.745945
During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke), a prominent Ohio family, and insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard (Russell Arms) and June (Elisabeth Fraser) Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.
The Flame of New Orleans, 1h19
Directed by René Clair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bruce Cabot, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine, Eddie Quillan, Anne Revere
Roles Auntie
Rating64% 3.245783.245783.245783.245783.24578
The legend of "Claire of New Orleans" is born after two fishermen find a wedding dress floating around on the Mississippi River one day. The legend tells that the Countess Claire Ledux disappeared on her wedding day in the year of 1840, and when the dress was found, the people of New Orleans assumed that the bride had committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. This is how the story begins, and then we find out what really happened, as the story of Claire Ledux is revealed.
New York Town, 1h34
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore
Roles Apple Annie (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1388753.1388753.1388753.1388753.138875
Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin), he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston) instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are (of course) further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like.
One Foot in Heaven, 1h48
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart, Elisabeth Fraser, Laura Hope Crews
Roles Mrs. Preston Thurston
Rating66% 3.346223.346223.346223.346223.34622
In Stratford, Ontario in 1904, William Spence (Fredric March), a medical student on the verge of becoming a doctor, receives "The Call" while passing a Methodist church one Sunday. His bride-to-be, Hope Morris (Martha Scott), accepts his decision to enter the ministry with a whole heart despite the disappointment of her prominent and affluent parents. Will "dives right in," but with no vacancies in Canada, is posted as a circuit minister to a small town in rural Iowa, beginning a life for them of frequent moves around the district, dingy parsonages, and scraping a living from poor boxes and performing weddings. Hope yearns for a decent parsonage and a sense of permanence for their children, but uncomplainingly provides them a good life and a supportive home for Will. For his part, Will understands his own nature and laughs at his own foibles, bending where he can in good conscience. He often enters situations in anger or to instruct but leaves humbled and renewed in spirit. While Will sincerely lives by and teaches by example (which includes his family) the tenets of the Methodist Discipline, he also learns from his congregations to be flexible and change with the times.
Gone with the Wind, 4h3
Directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen
Roles Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton
Rating81% 4.0987954.0987954.0987954.0987954.098795
Part 1 On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes—whom she secretly loves—is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.
Lady with Red Hair, 1h18
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crews, Helen Westley, John Litel
Roles Mrs. Dudley
Rating62% 3.146873.146873.146873.146873.14687
When Caroline Carter is divorced by her wealthy husband, she also loses custody of her son Dudley in the proceedings. Down on the ground she decides to win her fortune and son back. She leaves Chicago for New York to become an actress and tries to get acquainted to the theatrical producer David Belasco.
The Blue Bird, 1h28
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, Sybil Jason
Roles Mrs. Luxury
Rating61% 3.0960453.0960453.0960453.0960453.096045
Set in Germany sometime in the late 18th century where Mytyl (Shirley Temple), the bratty daughter of a woodcutter (Russell Hicks), finds a unique bird in the Royal Forest and selfishly refuses to give it to her sick friend. Mother and Father are mortified at Mytyl's behavior. That evening, Father is called on to report for duty the next morning in an unspecified war. That same night, Mytyl is visited in a dream by a fairy named Berylune (Jessie Ralph) who sends her and her brother Tyltyl (Johnny Russell) to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. To accompany them, the fairy magically transforms their dog Tylo (Eddie Collins), cat Tylette (Gale Sondergaard), and lantern ("Light") into human form. The children have a number of adventures, visiting the past and their dead grandparents who come to life because they are being remembered, a scary adventure in the forest, the life of luxury, and the future, a land of yet-to-be born children. The dream journey makes Mytyl awake as a kinder and gentler girl who has learned to appreciate all the comforts and joys of her home and family. In the morning, the Father receives word that a truce has been called and he does not have to go to war.
Remember?
Remember? (1939)
, 1h23
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, George Barbier
Roles Mrs. Carruthers
Rating59% 2.951772.951772.951772.951772.95177
Following an establishing shot of the New York City skyline, an elevator in a busy office building opens and happy-go-lucky Sky Ames (Lew Ayres) steps out. In a joyful mood, singing to himself, he takes out a ring, puts it on third finger of his left hand and goes to the door marked "Eaton, Eiton, Piper & Holland Advertising Agency". Inside, Miss Wilson (Sara Haden), secretary to his best friend, Jeff Holland (Robert Taylor) tells him that Jeff is in a meeting. Showing her the ring, Sky explains that during the first vacation he took without Jeff, he met "the most wonderful girl in the world".
Idiot's Delight, 1h47
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith
Roles Madame Zuleika
Rating64% 3.246683.246683.246683.246683.24668
Harry Van (Clark Gable), an American World War I veteran, tries to reenter show biz and ends up in a faltering mentalist show with an inept, aging alcoholic, Madame Zuleika (Laura Hope Crews, who also appeared in Gone with the Wind as Aunt Pittypat). While giving performances in Omaha, he is courted by Irene (Norma Shearer), a trapeze artist, who claims to come from Russia and hopes both to replace Harry's drunken partner in the show and be his lover. They have a romantic night, but he is suspicious of Irene's overstated flights of fancy. Harry, keeping Zuleika, and Irene's troupe board trains going in the opposite directions the next day.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1h57
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about religion
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Davenport
Roles Minor Role (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8946153.8946153.8946153.8946153.894615
The film opens in 1482 with King Louis XI and his close advisor, Frollo, the King's Chief Justice of Paris, in a printing shop. Frollo is determined to do everything in his power to rid Paris of anything he sees as evil, including the printing press and gypsies, who at the time are persecuted and prohibited from entering Paris. That day is Paris' annual celebration, the Festival of Fools. Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people, including the King and Frollo. Quasimodo, the hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the Pope of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church.
The Star Maker, 1h34
Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Musical
Actors Bing Crosby, Ned Sparks, Laura Hope Crews, Janet Waldo, Thurston Hall, Clara Blandick
Roles Carlotta Salvini
Rating60% 3.0460553.0460553.0460553.0460553.046055
Larry Earl est un compositeur ambitieux mais fauché; sa femme Mary persuade un directeur de théâtre de le laisser monter un spectacle avec des enfants. Mais une nouvelle loi interdit aux enfants de travailler après 10H du soir.