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Nella Walker is a Actor American born on 4 march 1886 at Chicago (USA)

Nella Walker

Nella Walker
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Nationality USA
Birth 4 march 1886 at Chicago (USA)
Death 22 march 1971 (at 85 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Nella Walker (March 6, 1886 – March 22, 1971) was an American film actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s.

Walker was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and in her teens became half of the husband and wife vaudeville team "Mack and Walker", with her husband Wilbur Mack. By 1929 she had launched a film acting career, her first film role being in Tanned Legs alongside Sally Blane, Dorothy Revier, June Clyde, and Arthur Lake. She appeared in three films in 1929, and easily transitioned to "talking films", appearing in another four films in 1930, possibly making the smooth transition because she was never an established silent film actress.

In 1931 her film career took off, with her appearing in ten films that year, five of which were uncredited. Her marriage ended not long after her film career was on the rise, and from 1932 through 1933 she appeared in fifteen films, only five of which were uncredited. In 1935 her career only got better, and between that year and 1938 she had twenty three film appearances. Her biggest film during that period was in Young Dr. Kildare alongside Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres. Throughout the 1930s her career was strong, despite her never being a premier "star", she repeatedly had solid acting roles. She finished that decade strong in 1939 with nine film roles, only three of which were uncredited.

The 1940s mirrored her success of the previous decade in many ways, with her appearing in thirty seven films from 1940 to 1947. Now later in her career, and over 60 years of age, she slowed her career for a time, not having another role until 1950 when she appeared in Nancy Goes to Rio alongside Ann Sothern and Carmen Miranda. She appeared in another two films in 1952, then had her last film acting role in 1954, in the film Sabrina alongside Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. She retired after that role, having appeared in one hundred and seventeen movies, settling in Los Angeles, where she was residing at the time of her death on March 22, 1971.

Biography

Après des débuts au théâtre comme actrice de vaudeville, Nella Walker entame au cinéma, en 1929, une carrière riche de cent-dix-sept films américains, comme second rôle de caractère. Son dernier film, l'un de ses plus connus, est Sabrina en 1954, année où elle se retire définitivement.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nella Walker (106 films)

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Actress

Sabrina
Sabrina (1954)
, 1h53
Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, John Williams
Roles Maude Larrabee
Rating75% 3.7991153.7991153.7991153.7991153.799115
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and she has been in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the household staff's dismay.
Young Man with Ideas, 1h24
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel, Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran, Ray Collins
Roles Mrs. Jethrow (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.996782.996782.996782.996782.99678
Maxwell Webster is a Montana attorney whose career isn't going as well as wife Julie feels it should be. She gets tipsy at a country club and praises her husband's work in front of colleagues, then urges him to ask boss Edmund Jethrow for a partnership. Instead, he loses his job.
Flesh and Fury
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman, Wallace Ford, Connie Gilchrist, Katherine Locke
Roles Mrs. Hackett
Rating64% 3.243863.243863.243863.243863.24386
Boxing fan Sonya Bartow and manager Pop Richardson are both impressed the first time they see amateur Paul Callan win a fight. They are more amazed, and Sonya somewhat appalled, when they discover later that Paul is deaf.
Nancy Goes to Rio, 1h40
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Jane Powell, Ann Sothern, Barry Sullivan, Carmen Miranda, Louis Calhern, Scotty Beckett
Roles Mrs. Harrison
Rating63% 3.1962753.1962753.1962753.1962753.196275
On the closing night of a Broadway play, leading actress Frances Elliott (Ann Sothern) hosts a party attended by many guests, including her eccentric father Gregory (Louis Calhern), who is also an actor; her seventeen-year-old daughter, Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell), an aspiring actress; and Brazilian playwright Ricardo Domingos, who is considering starring Frances in his next play.
This Time for Keeps, 1h45
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, May Whitty, Mary Stuart, Anne Francis, Kenneth Tobey
Roles Harriet Allenbury
Rating58% 2.9029852.9029852.9029852.9029852.902985
Richard Herald (Lauritz Melchior) is a famous opera singer and father to Richard Herald II, who has recently returned from fighting in the war and now prefers to be known as Dick Johnson (Johnnie Johnston). Dick has been engaged to socialite Frances Allenbury (Mary Stuart) since before he left for the war, but has been expressing some apprehension about marrying her.
That Hagen Girl, 1h23
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun, Ronald Reagan, Lois Maxwell, Conrad Janis, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Molly Freneau
Rating61% 3.098133.098133.098133.098133.09813
Mary Hagen is believed by town gossips to be the illegitimate daughter of Tom Bates, a former resident and lawyer. She is often treated badly. Bates moves back into town and begins a friendship with Hagen's favorite teacher Julia Kane (Maxwell). There are hints that Bates is the real father of Hagen, though it is later revealed that she was an orphan adopted by the Hagens. When the teacher leaves town, she suggests to Bates that he stop playing Hagen's father, as it has become clear that he is in love with her. The movie ends with Bates and Hagen boarding a train, presumably to get married.
Magic Town
Magic Town (1947)
, 1h43
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Ann Doran
Roles Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2000453.2000453.2000453.2000453.200045
Lawrence "Rip" Smith (James Stewart) is a former basketball player and ex-military who now runs a company that perform polls and consumer surveys. Lately he has started obsessing about being able to find a perfect mathematical "miracle" formula to perform the perfect survey, and compete for real with his rival companies. Because he lacks funds, he is far behind his number one rival George Stringer.
Undercover Maisie, 1h30
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Ann Sothern, Barry Nelson, Leon Ames, Clinton Sundberg, Richard "Dick" Simmons, Gloria Holden
Roles Mrs. Georgia Lorrison
Rating61% 3.097773.097773.097773.097773.09777
Maisie Ravier (Ann Sothern) is moving from Los Angeles to begin a job selling bubble baths in New York. When she is about to go on a train across the country at the station, she bumps into kindly Mrs. Andrew Lorrison (Nella Walker). Mrs. Lorrison offers to drive Maisie to New York, as her husband, in New York already, needs the family car. Maisie accepts. Mrs. Lorrison also tells Maisie that her husband built a secret compartment in the car into which they should place all their valuables just in case they are held up along the way. Maisie places all her jewelry and her wallet into the compartment. After only a short drive, they pull off at a gas stop. Maisie goes inside the diner to pick up some food, and Mrs. Lorrison says she will get some gas in the interim. While Maisie is inside the diner, Mrs. Lorrison, really a grifter, takes off with Maisie's bags, her wallet and her jewelry, leaving Maisie stranded. When Maisie accurately and thoroughly describes Mrs. Lorrison to the police, Lieutenant Paul Scott (Barry Nelson) from the Los Angeles Police Department's bunco squad is very impressed at her observation skills. He believes Maisie would be a great asset to the squad because of her observation skills and the fact that most con artists would not suspect someone like her of being a police officer. Paul convinces his boss, Captain Mead (Charles D. Brown), to place Maisie in police training as he wants to use Maisie as an undercover agent to solve some of their unsolved frauds around the city.
The Locket
The Locket (1946)
, 1h25
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond, Sharyn Moffett, Ricardo Cortez
Roles Mrs. Wendall
Rating70% 3.543623.543623.543623.543623.54362
A story told in a number of flashbacks from different points of view, this psychological drama tells the story of a bride-to-be (Day) who, as a child, was falsely accused of theft. She grows up to become a kleptomaniac, inveterate liar, and eventually a murderess.
Follow That Woman, 1h9
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Gargan, Nancy Kelly, Regis Toomey, Edward Gargan, Byron Barr, Pierre Watkin
Roles Mrs. Henderson
Rating58% 2.92642.92642.92642.92642.9264
Nancy spends the evening with her boyfriend at the Downtown Club, a notorious hangout for members of the criminal underworld. Quite recently the club was the scene of a murder. Nancy witnesses what she believes is a holdup at the very next table, and instinctively she hits the gunman over the head with a champagne bottle, knocking him out completely. The gunman, Sam Boone, is really an undercover police officer posing as a gangster, who was trying to make an arrest when Nancy hit him. Even though Nancy and Sam really didn’t meet under the best of circumstances, they soon take a liking to each other, and eventually marry. Exactly two years later they return to the Downtown Club and the ”crime scene” in order to celebrate their first meeting.
In Society
In Society (1944)
, 1h14
Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Crime
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant, Arthur Treacher, Thomas Gomez
Roles Mrs. Elizabeth Van Cleve
Rating65% 3.295273.295273.295273.295273.29527
Eddie Harrington (Bud Abbott) and Albert Mansfield (Lou Costello) are plumbers who receive a call about a leak in the private bathroom of Mr. Van Cleve (Thurston Hall), a wealthy businessman. The leak is keeping him awake, but the costume ball that his wife (Nella Walker) is throwing downstairs is not.
Ladies of Washington, 1h1
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Spy films
Actors Trudy Marshall, Anthony Quinn, Bob Bailey, Sheila Ryan, Bess Flowers, Robin Raymond
Roles Mrs. Crane (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1677553.1677553.1677553.1677553.167755