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Blanche Yurka is a Actor American born on 19 june 1887 at Saint Paul (USA)

Blanche Yurka

Blanche Yurka
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Birth name Blanch Jurka
Nationality USA
Birth 19 june 1887 at Saint Paul (USA)
Death 6 june 1974 (at 86 years) at New York City (USA)

Blanche Yurka (born Blanch Jurka; June 18/June 19, 1887 – died June 6, 1974) was a celebrated American stage and film actress and director.

Yurka was an opera singer, with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera, before she became a stage actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to her many stage roles, which included Queen Gertrude opposite John Barrymore's Hamlet, she was an occasional director and playwright. She remained active in theater and film until the late 1960s. Her most famous film role was Madame Defarge in MGM's version of A Tale of Two Cities (1935), but she was also the compassionate aunt in The Song of Bernadette (1944). Another memorable role was as Zachary Scott's widowed mother in The Southerner (1945).

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Filmography of Blanche Yurka (22 films)

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Thunder in the Sun, 1h20
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Carl Esmond, Blanche Yurka, Fortunio Bonanova
Roles Louise Dauphin
Rating55% 2.760452.760452.760452.760452.76045
The film shows a family of French Basque immigrants pioneering into the Wild West while carrying their ancestral vines. Hard drinking trail driver Lon Bennett is hired to lead them and he falls for the spirited Gabrielle Dauphin.
Taxi
Taxi (1953)
, 1h17
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Dan Dailey, John Cassavetes, Constance Smith, Mark Roberts, Neva Patterson, Blanche Yurka
Roles Mrs. Nielson
Rating64% 3.209113.209113.209113.209113.20911
Taxi driver Ed Nielson is a bad-tempered bachelor who lives with his mother and owes money on his cab.
At Sword's Point, 1h21
Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Dan O'Herlihy, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles Madame Michom
Rating60% 3.045433.045433.045433.045433.04543
The sons (and a daughter) of the original Four Musketeers ride to the rescue of besieged Queen Anne in 1648 France.
The Furies
The Furies (1950)
, 1h49
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez
Roles Herrera Mother
Rating72% 3.64613.64613.64613.64613.6461
T. C. Jeffords (Walter Huston) is a wealthy cattle baron who feels the Herrera family is squatting illegally on his property, The Furies. T.C.'s beloved daughter, Vance (Barbara Stanwyck), who is as obsessed with wealth and every bit as ruthless as her father, has a close bond with Juan Herrera (Gilbert Roland) in secret. What she wants more is a proper husband who can run the giant ranch with her once T.C. is gone. She falls in love with Rip Darrow (Wendell Corey), who holds a grudge against T.C., believing a portion of The Furies land to be rightfully his. Vance is shocked when Rip accepts a $50,000 bribe from T.C. to permanently get out of her life. Rip opens a bank in town near a saloon he owns called "The Legal Tender".
The Flame
The Flame (1947)
, 1h37
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers, Blanche Yurka
Roles Aunt Margaret
Rating64% 3.237463.237463.237463.237463.23746
A man (Carroll) induces an ambitious nurse (Ralston) to marry his rich brother (Paige) for the money who has a terminal disease.
13 Rue Madeleine, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel, Melville Cooper
Roles Madame Thillot
Rating68% 3.4432353.4432353.4432353.4432353.443235
Bob Sharkey (James Cagney) is an instructor of the 77th group of espionage agent candidates to be trained in the United States to infiltrate Nazi-occupied Europe. He is alerted that one of the students is a German agent and told to identify him or her. Sharkey is able to determine that the enemy agent is "Bill O'Connell" (Richard Conte), who performs too well when he succeeds in a field problem designed to cause the novices to make mistakes. Sharkey's boss, Charles Gibson (Walter Abel), confirms that O'Connell is really Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top agents but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they know Kuncel's mission is to determine the date and location of the planned Allied invasion of Europe. They intend to provide Kuncel with false information to pass along to his superiors.
The Southerner, 1h32
Directed by Jean Renoir, Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Estelle Taylor
Roles Mama Tucker
Rating70% 3.543993.543993.543993.543993.54399
Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a cotton picker in Texas who decides to start his own farm. He and wife Nona (Betty Field), Granny (Beulah Bondi) and children Jot and Daisy set out with nothing but two mules and a bit of seed.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 1h47
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lynn Bari, Francis Lederer, Akim Tamiroff, Alla Nazimova, Louis Calhern, Donald Woods
Roles The Abbess
Rating55% 2.7653052.7653052.7653052.7653052.765305
In the year of 1774, a hundred-year old bridge leading to the chapel of San Luis Rey in Peru, plunges into the deep chasm it spans, killing the five people who are crossing it. Brother Juniper (Donald Woods) is one of the chapel monks, whose faith is rocked by the unfortunate incident. He travels to Lima to seek answers to his questions why these five were chosen by God to die this violent death.
Cry of the Werewolf, 1h3
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Nina Foch, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka, Barton MacLane, Ivan Triesault, John Abbott
Roles Bianca
Rating53% 2.651332.651332.651332.651332.65133
A Romany princess descended from Marie LaTour has the ability to change into a wolf at will, just like her late mother. When she learns that Marie LaTour's tomb has been discovered, she decides to use her talent to kill everyone who knows the location, because it is a sacred secret that only her people are allowed to know.
One Body Too Many, 1h15
Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Blanche Yurka, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley
Roles Matthews
Rating54% 2.7025152.7025152.7025152.7025152.702515
A timid insurance salesman Albert L. Tuttle (Jack Haley) visits eccentric millionaire Cyrus J. Rutherford, intent on selling him a $200,000 insurance deal. Instead he finds that Rutherford has recently died and his mansion is now full of relatives who are, according to the will, all bound to remain in the mansion until a glass-domed vault is constructed on the roof, to house the deceased millionaire who was an ardent follower of the stars. Tuttle is mistaken for a private detective sent to guard the body, and once the confusion is cleared up and the real detective fails to show, he is convinced by Rutherford's niece Carol Dunlap (Jean Parker) to remain and ensure that the body is not stolen. If the body should be buried any place other than the vault, the will states that recipients who would receive the largest request will receive the smallest, and vice versa. One of the recipients plans to reverse the will in their favor, hide the body and kill anyone who gets in their way. Unfortunately for mild-mannered Tuttle, he is directly in the way of the killer, and the rest of the conniving family.
The Song of Bernadette, 2h36
Directed by Henry King, Albert R. Broccoli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Children's films, Films about virginity
Actors Jennifer Jones, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper
Roles Aunt Bernarde Casterot
Rating75% 3.794313.794313.794313.794313.79431
François Soubirous (Roman Bohnen), a former miller now unemployed, is forced to take odd jobs and live at the city jail with his wife (Anne Revere), his two sons, and his two daughters. One morning he goes to find work, and is told to take contaminated trash from the hospital and dump it in the cave at Massabielle.
Hitler's Madman
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Frau Anna Hanka
Rating64% 3.245473.245473.245473.245473.24547
En 1942, de passage dans le petit village tchèque de Lidice, Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor de Bohême, commandant en chef du gouvernement nazi en Tchécoslovaquie (Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie), est mortellement blessé lors d'un attentat commis par deux résistants (l'opération Anthropoid). En représailles, Lidice est détruit, une partie de ses habitants fusillés, les autres déportés...
Keeper of the Flame, 1h40
Directed by George Stevens, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker, Darryl Hickman
Rating66% 3.348283.348283.348283.348283.34828
When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow reporters, Jane Harding (Audrey Christie) and Freddie Ridges (Stephen McNally). They remain after the rest of the press leave.
Tonight We Raid Calais, 1h10
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka, Howard Da Silva
Roles Widow Grelieu
Rating62% 3.141743.141743.141743.141743.14174
Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant that manufactures bombs in Nazi-occupied France with the help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Sutton confronts a French maiden Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans.
Pacific Rendezvous, 1h16
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Russell Hicks, Mona Maris, Carl Esmond, Paul Cavanagh
Roles Mrs. Savarina
Rating58% 2.9075052.9075052.9075052.9075052.907505