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