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Queenie Smith is a Actor American born on 7 september 1898 at New York City (USA)

Queenie Smith

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Nationality USA
Birth 7 september 1898 at New York City (USA)
Death 5 august 1978 (at 79 years) at Burbank (USA)

Queenie Smith (September 8, 1898 - August 5, 1978) was an American stage, television, and film actress.

Biography

Smith got an early start, being trained in ballet and dance and spent her teen years performing as a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Company in operas such as Aida, La Traviata, and Faust. By the 1920s she was a star on Broadway in shows such as Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Sitting Pretty (1924), and The Street Singer (1929), and by the mid-30s had made her way into films. She starred on Broadway in George and Ira Gershwin's musical Tip-Toes (1925). She costarred in the 1936 Universal Pictures film version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, playing Ellie May Chipley. Smith replaced stage actress Eva Puck who had starred as Chipley in the 1927 premiere and 1932 revival of Show Boat.

In 1947 she appeared in the film The Long Night and then played other character roles on film, and later, television. She was seen as Jimmy Durante's wife in The Great Rupert, and in guest shots in many television shows, including The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, A.E.S. Hudson Street, Rhoda, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Barney Miller, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Chico and the Man, McMillan & Wife, Love American Style, The Waltons, Here's Lucy, The Funny Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Monkees, The Odd Couple, The Love Boat, Maude and Little House on the Prairie (in a recurring role as "Mrs. Whipple").

Queenie Smith was a teacher and mentor to many a young actor. She taught at the Hollywood Professional School and was the Director for the training program at Melodyland Theater, Anaheim, California, during the 60's.

She worked right up until the year of her death; her last role being "Elsie" in the Chevy Chase/Goldie Hawn film Foul Play (1978). She died of cancer a month before her 80th birthday.

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Filmography of Queenie Smith (33 films)

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The Astral Factor, 1h25
Directed by John Florea, Gene Fowler Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse, Invisibilité
Actors Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Sue Lyon, Mark Slade, Leslie Parrish, Marianna Hill
Roles Darlene's Landlady
Rating37% 1.8728951.8728951.8728951.8728951.872895
Studying the paranormal allows a convicted strangler to make himself invisible to kill five women who testified against him at his trial.
The End
The End (1978)
, 1h40
Directed by Burt Reynolds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about suicide, Buddy films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg, Joanne Woodward
Roles Old Lady in Driving School Car
Rating60% 3.046113.046113.046113.046113.04611
California real-estate salesman Wendell "Sonny" Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor (Norman Fell) that he's dying from a rare toxic blood disease and has six months to live. Not wanting to endure the inevitable pain, nor wanting to spend his last days in a hospital bed, he decides to take his own life.
Foul Play
Foul Play (1978)
, 1h51
Directed by Colin Higgins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche, Dudley Moore
Roles Elsie
Rating67% 3.3965653.3965653.3965653.3965653.396565
Recent divorcée Gloria Mundy (Goldie Hawn) is a San Francisco librarian. While attending a party, she is encouraged by a friend to leave herself open to new experiences. On the way home, Gloria picks up an attractive man named Bob "Scotty" Scott (Bruce Solomon) when she encounters him and his disabled car on Highway 1. She impulsively accepts Scotty's invitation to join him at the movies that evening, and before they part ways he asks her to take his pack of cigarettes in order to help him curb his smoking. Unbeknownst to her, Scotty has secreted a roll of film in the pack. That evening, a seriously wounded Scotty meets Gloria in the theater and warns her to "beware of the dwarf" before dying. When his body mysteriously disappears while Gloria seeks help from the theater manager, she is unable to convince anyone of what has transpired.
Mother, Jugs & Speed, 1h35
Directed by Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, L. Q. Jones, Bruce Davison
Roles rôle indéterminé
Rating58% 2.9486452.9486452.9486452.9486452.948645
The F+B Ambulance Company is locked in an intense battle with the Unity Ambulance Company to win a city contract for providing ambulance service to a territory within Los Angeles. Their star driver is "Mother" Tucker (Bill Cosby), a talented antihero who drinks alcohol on duty, harasses nuns, and behaves brazenly towards practically everybody he meets, including his partner Leroy (Bruce Davison). Indeed, the entire company is a band of misfits, including the hypersexual John Murdoch (Larry Hagman), his partner Walker (Michael McManus), putative medical student Bliss (Allan Warnick), and brash Texan "Rodeo" Moxey (Dick Butkus). Handling calls at the switchboard is Jennifer (Raquel Welch), whom the drivers nickname "Jugs" for her ample bosom. Harry "Doughnut" Fishbine (Allen Garfield) runs the company, using occasionally underhanded means (such as kickbacks) to maintain an income stream.
Hustle
Hustle (1975)
, 1h55
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert
Roles Customer
Rating61% 3.095633.095633.095633.095633.09563
When the body of a young woman is found on an isolated beach, Lieutenant Phil Gaines and his partner, Sergeant Louis Belgrave, are the weary and bitter LAPD detectives assigned to the homicide investigation. They conclude, with the support of the coroner's report, that the victim, a hooker and known drug user named Gloria Hollinger, committed suicide using pills.
The Day of the Locust, 2h24
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about films
Actors William Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Lelia Goldoni
Roles Palsied Lady
Rating68% 3.4452653.4452653.4452653.4452653.445265
A cynical and gothic look at Hollywood during the late 1930s, The Day of the Locust tells the tales of residents of the dilapidated San Bernardino Arms: Faye Greener, a trashy aspiring actress with limited talent, and her father Harry, a washed-up vaudevillian reduced to working as a door-to-door salesman; sexually repressed accountant Homer Simpson, who desperately loves Faye, and East Coast WASP Tod Hackett, an aspiring artist employed by the production department of a major studio, who also fancies Faye.
The Girls of Huntington House, 1h14
Directed by Alf Kjellin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom, Sissy Spacek, Carol Speed
Roles Agnes Swenton
Rating63% 3.187233.187233.187233.187233.18723
Anne Baldwin arrives at Huntington House, a maternity home for pregnant minors. The school's principal Doris McKenzie is initially reluctant to hire Baldwin, because she has no degree. In class, Baldwin soon finds out she is unable to get through the teens, of whom most are rebellious and aggressive. She constantly clashes with the school's newest student, 17-year-old Sara. Sara has been forced by her parents to enter the home and has been assigned the roommate of Gail, a model student who has a snobbish, dominant mother. Sara feels Baldwin is too old-fashioned, too introverted and does not know the meaning of love and sex.
The Legend of Lylah Clare, 2h10
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Roles La coiffeuse
Rating57% 2.8541252.8541252.8541252.8541252.854125
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
Sweet Smell of Success, 1h36
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner, Susan Harrison, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols
Roles Mildred Tam (uncredited)
Rating79% 3.997043.997043.997043.997043.99704
Manhattan press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) has been unable to gain mentions for his in J.J. Hunsecker's (Burt Lancaster) influential, nationally syndicated newspaper column of late because of Falco's failure to make good on a promise to break up the romance between Hunsecker's younger sister Susan (Susan Harrison) and musician Steve Dallas (Martin Milner), an up-and-coming jazz guitarist.
Hold That Hypnotist, 1h1
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Queenie Smith, Jane Nigh, Robert Foulk
Roles Kate Kelly
Rating53% 2.671632.671632.671632.671632.67163
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly believes in a theory proposed by Dr. Simon Noble. The theory is that through hypnosis, one can regress into a former life that they supposedly lived centuries ago. The boys believe that Noble is a phony until Sach manages to get himself hypnotized. Evidently Sach once lived as Algy Winkle, an English tax collector in Charleston, South Carolina. Winklemanaged to receive a map from Captain Blackbeard leading to buried treasure.
Fighting Trouble, 1h1
Directed by George Blair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Queenie Smith, Adele Jergens, John Bleifer
Roles Miss Kate Kelly
Rating51% 2.579892.579892.579892.579892.57989
After Danny loses his job working for the New York Morning Blade. Sach and Duke decide to pay the editor a visit in order to get Danny his job back. However, the two instead agree to get a photograph of gangster Frankie Arbo for the newspaper. The Bowery Boys try several disguises in order to catch Arbo in the act before they finally decide to pose as gangsters themselves.
Hot Shots
Hot Shots (1956)
, 1h1
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Joi Lansing, Queenie Smith, Robert Shayne
Roles Kate Kelly
Rating55% 2.764552.764552.764552.764552.76455
A spoiled child television star steals Sach and Duke's car. After retrieving the vehicle, the duo "teach the kid a lesson". Television executives, who are disgruntled by the child, are impressed by the duo who are then hired to watch after the boy. The child's uncle/manager is not happy with Sach and Duke's influence over the child so he gets the two fired and then kidnaps the boy for ransom, to cover up his stealing the boys earnings. Sach and Duke then rescue him.
You Can't Run Away from It, 1h35
Directed by Dick Powell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Musical films
Actors June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert, Jim Backus, Stubby Kaye
Roles Elderly Lady
Rating58% 2.9489152.9489152.9489152.9489152.948915
Because she married an international playboy, Ellie Andrews (June Allyson) is kidnapped by her own father, Texas cattleman A. A. Andrews (Charles Bickford). She escapes, managing to evade his nationwide search for her with the help of Peter Warne (Jack Lemmon), a jobless reporter, who sees himself getting the biggest story of the year - until he and Ellie fall in love. When Ellie suspects Peter has sold her out, she returns home. Realizing his daughter really loves the newspaperman, Andrews tries to persuade Ellie to run away again, this time from her own wedding ceremony. Who will Ellie choose, her husband or the man who has stolen her heart?
My Sister Eileen, 1h48
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Horace McMahon, Bob Fosse, Tommy Rall
Roles Alice (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.395463.395463.395463.395463.39546
Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopolous. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Eileen hopes to achieve success as an actress. They become acquainted with their neighbor Ted Loomis, an athlete who lives with his fiancée Helen.