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