Clara Blandick
Born: 1876-06-04 in Onboard American ship in Hong Kong
Died: 1962-04-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Filmography
1950
- Riding High as Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Key to the City as Liza, Silas' housekeeper
1949
- Mr. Soft Touch as Susan Balmuss
1948
- The Bride Goes Wild as Aunt Pewtie
1947
- Life with Father as Miss Wiggins
- Philo Vance Returns as Stella Blendon
1946
- She-Wolf of London as Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
- A Stolen Life as Martha
- So Goes My Love as Mrs. Meade
- People Are Funny as Grandma Wilson
- Claudia and David as Mrs. Barry
1945
- Frontier Gal as Abigail
- Pillow of Death as Belle Kincaid
1944
- Can't Help Singing as Aunt Cissy
- Shadow of Suspicion as Mother Randall
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
1942
- Gentleman Jim as Woman on Train (uncredited)
- Road to Morocco as Aunt Lucy in Photo (uncredited)
- Rings on Her Fingers
- Lady in a Jam as Tourist (uncredited)
1941
- The Big Store as Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
- It Started with Eve as Nurse
- The Nurse's Secret as Aunt Juliet Mitchell
- Private Nurse as Miss Phillips
- The Wagons Roll at Night as Mrs. Williams
- One Foot in Heaven as Sister Watkins (uncredited)
- The Get-Away as Mrs. Higgins
1940
- North West Mounted Police as Mrs. Burns
- Alice in Movieland as Grandmother
- Youth Will Be Served as Miss Bradshaw
- Dreaming Out Loud as Jessica Spencer
- Tomboy as Aunt Martha
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Auntie Em
- Drums Along the Mohawk as Mrs. Borst
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Miss Watson
- Swanee River as Mrs. Griffin
- The Star Maker as Miss Esther Jones
1938
- Tom Sawyer, Detective as Aunt Polly
- Crime Ring as Phoebe Sawyer
- My Old Kentucky Home as Julia 'Granny' Blair
- Professor Beware as Mrs. Green - Landlady
- Swing, Sister, Swing as Ma Sisler
1937
- A Star Is Born as Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
- The Road Back as Willy's Mother
- You Can't Have Everything as Townswoman (uncredited)
- Her Husband's Secretary as Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
- Wings Over Honolulu as Evie Curtis
- Small Town Boy as Mrs. Armstrong
1936
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Gaptown Landlady
- The Gorgeous Hussy as Louisa Abbott
- Anthony Adverse as Mrs. Jorham
- Hearts Divided as Aunt Ellen
- The Case of the Velvet Claws as Mary F. O'Daugherty
- In His Steps as Martha Adams
- Make Way for a Lady as Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
1935
- Party Wire as Mathilda Sherman
- The Winning Ticket as Aunt Maggie
- Straight from the Heart as Mrs. Anderson
- Transient Lady as Eva Branham
1934
- The Girl from Missouri as Miss Newberry
- Broadway Bill as Mrs. Peterson
- The Show-Off as Mrs. 'Ma'
- The President Vanishes as Mrs. Delling
- Fugitive Lady as Aunt Margaret
- As the Earth Turns as Cora
- Harold Teen as Ma Lovewell
- Beloved as Miss Murfee
- Jealousy as Mrs. Douglas
- Sisters Under the Skin as Miss Gower
1933
- Ever in My Heart as Anna, the Cook
- Going Hollywood as Ms. Perkins
- Turn Back the Clock as Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
- Charlie Chan's Greatest Case as Minerva Winterslip
- The Mind Reader as Auntie (uncredited)
- Child of Manhattan as Aunt Sophie
- Three Cornered Moon as Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
1932
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen as Mrs. Jackson (uncredited)
- Three on a Match as Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
- Shopworn as Mrs. Helen Livingston
- Life Begins as Mrs. West
- The Wet Parade as Mrs. Tarleton
- Rockabye as Brida
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)
1931
- Inspiration as Madeleine's Mother (uncredited)
- Possessed as Mrs. Martin
- The Easiest Way as Agnes Murdock
- The Drums of Jeopardy as Aunt Abbie
- Murder at Midnight as Aunt Julia Gray Kennedy
- Laughing Sinners as Salvation Army Woman
- Huckleberry Finn as Aunt Polly
- Daybreak as Frau Hoffman
- I Take This Woman as Ranch Wife
- Bought! as Mrs. Sprig
- Once a Sinner as Mrs. Mason
- New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford as Mrs. Layton
- It's a Wise Child as Mrs. Stanton
1930
- Romance as Abigail Armstrong
- The Sins of the Children as Martha Wagenkampf
- The Girl Said No as Mrs. Ward
- The Last of the Duanes as Mrs. Duane
- Tom Sawyer as Aunt Polly
- Burning Up as Mrs. Minnie Winkle
- Men Are Like That as Ma Fisher
- Poor Aubrey as Mrs. Fisher - Aubrey's Mother-in-Law
1929
- Wise Girls as Mrs. Bence
1917
- Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp as Mrs. Donnelly
1916
- The Stolen Triumph as Mrs. Rowley
1915
- The Cabaret Singer as Mrs. Denton