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
- Buffalo Stampede as Jane Jett
- Man of the Forest as Peg Forney
- Secrets as Martha Marlowe
- Adorable as Countess
- The Barbarian as Mrs. Hume
- Hold Your Man as Mrs. Wagner
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Aunt Katherine
- The Way to Love as Rosalie
- Alimony Madness as Mrs. Van
1932
- A Farewell to Arms as Head Nurse
- Love Me Tonight as Third Aunt
- Three on a Match as Miss Blazer (uncredited)
- If I Had a Million as Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)
- Thirteen Women as Miss Kirsten
- Lady with a Past as Nora
- Miss Pinkerton as Mary
- So Big! as Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)
- Cynara as Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)
- State's Attorney as Night Court Judge (uncredited)
- Young Bride as Librarian Margaret Gordon
- The Hatchet Man as Madame Si-Si (uncredited)
- The Night Club Lady as Mrs. Carewe
1931
- Night Nurse as Mrs. Maxwell
- Mata Hari as Sister Angelica
- Ten Cents a Dance as Mrs. Blanchard
- A Dangerous Affair as Letty Randolph
- Woman Hungry as Mrs. Temple
- The Woman Between as Mrs. Weston
- Wicked as Mrs. Johnson
- Honor of the Family as Mme. Boris
- Friends and Lovers as Lady Allice
- Murder by the Clock as Julia Endicott
1930
- Kismet as Narjis
- Courage as Aunt Caroline
- Numbered Men as Mrs. Miller
- Soldiers and Women as Martha
- Billy the Kid as Mrs. McSween
- The Office Wife as Kate Halsey
- Trifles as Mrs. Peters
- The Bad One as Madame Durand
- The Girl Said No as Mrs. McAndrews
- A Notorious Affair as Lady Teel (uncredited)
- The Cat Creeps as Mam' Pleasant
- Personality as Ma
1929
- The Trespasser as Miss Potter the Nurse
- Wonder of Women as Tromholt's Housekeeper
- Jazz Heaven as Mrs. Langley
- The Awful Truth as Mrs. Leeson
1928
- Sadie Thompson as Mrs. Alfred Davidson
- Stolen Love as Aunt Evvie
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Miss Chapman
- Fleetwing as Furja
1920
- 39 East as Miss McMasters