Blanche Friderici
Born: 1873-09-12 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Died: 1933-12-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Blanche Friderici was a noted American stage and screen actress, her film career beginning in 1920. She is probably best remembered for her roles in Night Nurse (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), and Flying Down to Rio (1933). Although today typically indicated to have been born on 21 January 1878, Friderici's actual birth date was 12 September 1873, per multiple reliable records (including her Brooklyn, New York birth record) from throughout her lifetime.
Filmography
1934
- It Happened One Night as Zeke's Wife
- All of Me as Miss Haskell
1933
- Flying Down to Rio as Elena De Rezende
- Man of the Forest as Peg Forney
- Buffalo Stampede as Jane Jett
- The Barbarian as Mrs. Hume
- Hold Your Man as Mrs. Wagner
- Secrets as Martha Marlowe
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Aunt Katherine
- The Way to Love as Rosalie
- Adorable as Countess
- Alimony Madness as Mrs. Van
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Third Aunt
- A Farewell to Arms as Head Nurse
- Three on a Match as Miss Blazer (uncredited)
- Thirteen Women as Miss Kirsten
- State's Attorney as Night Court Judge (uncredited)
- So Big! as Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)
- If I Had a Million as Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)
- Lady with a Past as Nora
- Miss Pinkerton as Mary
- The Hatchet Man as Madame Si-Si (uncredited)
- The Night Club Lady as Mrs. Carewe
- Cynara as Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Young Bride as Librarian Margaret Gordon
1931
- Mata Hari as Sister Angelica
- The Woman Between as Mrs. Weston
- Honor of the Family as Mme. Boris
- Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Blanchard
- Night Nurse as Mrs. Maxwell
- Friends and Lovers as Lady Allice
- Wicked as Mrs. Johnson
- Murder by the Clock as Julia Endicott
- Woman Hungry as Mrs. Temple
- A Dangerous Affair as Letty Randolph
1930
- The Office Wife as Kate Halsey
- The Cat Creeps as Mam' Pleasant
- Billy the Kid as Mrs. McSween
- The Girl Said No as Mrs. McAndrews
- The Bad One as Madame Durand
- Numbered Men as Mrs. Miller
- Kismet as Narjis
- Soldiers and Women as Martha
- A Notorious Affair as Lady Teel (uncredited)
- Courage as Aunt Caroline
- Trifles as Mrs. Peters
- Personality as Ma
1929
- Wonder of Women as Tromholt's Housekeeper
- The Awful Truth as Mrs. Leeson
- Jazz Heaven as Mrs. Langley
- The Trespasser as Miss Potter the Nurse
1928
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Miss Chapman
- Sadie Thompson as Mrs. Alfred Davidson
- Fleetwing as Furja
- Stolen Love as Aunt Evvie
1920
- 39 East as Miss McMasters