Ina Claire
Ina Claire
A comedienne on vaudeville in pre-World War I days, Ina Claire made only a few films during the silent era (beginning with The Puppet Crown, 1915), instead concentrating on her stage work. She was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 and 1916, appeared for two years as the star of The Gold Diggers, and developed into a Broadway favorite in the '20s. On Broadway she was the "queen of high comedy," a sophisticated blonde with verve and panache. She returned to the screen shortly after the advent of sound in The Awful Truth (1929). Her bubbly comedic style was employed in a handful of other movies in the '30s and '40s; her last appearance was as Dorothy McGuire's courageous, doomed mother in Claudia (1943). She retired from the stage in 1954. She was married to screen idol John Gilbert from 1929-31. ~ All Movie Guide
Filmography of Ina Claire:
- Ninotchka with Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas , Bela Lugosi , Sig Rumann , Felix Bressart , Alexander Granach , Gregory Gaye , Rolfe Sedan , Richard Carle , Dorothy Adams , Monya Andre , Bess Flowers , Mary Forbes , Jody Gilbert , Lawrence Grant , William J. Irving , Charles Judels , Armand Kaliz , Edwin Maxwell , Peggy Moran , Frank Reicher , Harry Semels , Tamara Shayne , Florence Shirley , Edwin Stanley , Kay Stewart , George Tobias , Paul Weigel , Elizabeth Williams , Marek Windheim , Wolfgang Zilzer , Sandra Morgan , Alexander Schoenberg , Jenifer Gray , Elinor Vandivere , Symona Boniface , George Davis
- Stage Door Canteen with Cheryl Walker , William Terry , Marjorie Riordan , Lon McCallister , Margaret Early , Michael Harrison , Dorothea Kent , Fred Brady , Marion Shockley , Patrick O'Moore , Judith Anderson , Kenny Baker , Tallulah Bankhead , Ralph Bellamy , Edgar Bergen , Ray Bolger , Katharine Cornell , Jane Cowl , Virginia Field , Gracie Fields , Lynn Fontanne , Virginia Grey , Helen Hayes , Katharine Hepburn , Hugh Herbert , Jean Hersholt , Sam Jaffe , Allen Jenkins , George Jessel , Otto Kruger , Gypsy Rose Lee , Alfred Lunt , Aline MacMahon , Elsa Maxwell , Harpo Marx , Yehudi Menuhin , Ethel Merman , Ralph Morgan , Alan Mowbray , Paul Muni , Merle Oberon , George Raft , Lanny Ross , Selena Royle , Martha Scott , Cornelia Otis Skinner , Ned Sparks , Bill Stern , Ethel Waters , Arleen Whelan , May Whitty , Ed Wynn , Elliott Nugent , Guy Lombardo & Orchestra , Henry Armetta , Benny Goodman , Helen Broderick , Sunset Carson , Jane Darwell , William Demarest , Arlene Francis , Freddy and his Orchestra Martin , Billy Gilbert , Lucille Gleason , Vera Gordon , Mack Gray , Roscoe Karns , Kay Kyser , June Lang , Betty Lawford , Gertrude Lawrence , Charlie the Dummy McCarthy , Franklin Pangborn , Helen Parrish , Brock Pemberton , Francis Pierlot , Ruth Roman , Lina Romay , Johnny Sr. Weissmuller , Lloyd Corrigan , Xavier Cugat , Dorothy Fields , Peggy Lee , Count Basie and His Orchestra , Tom Kennedy
- Fiddler on the Roof with Topol , Norma Crane , Leonard Frey , Molly Picon , Paul Mann , Rosalind Harris , Theodore Bikel , Candy Bonstein , Brian Coburn , Patience Collier , Barry Dennen , Otto Diamant , Arnold Diamond , Vernon Dobtcheff , Elaine Edwards , Paul Michael Glaser , Howard Goorney , Aharon Ipale , Carl Jaffe , Raymond Lovelock , Ruth Madoc , Mark Malicz , Michele Marsh , Vladimir Medar , Roger Lloyd Pack , Albin Pahernik , Shimen Ruskin , Zvee Scooler , Alfie Scopp , Neva Small , Bob Stevenson , Louis Zorich , Sarah Cohen , Tutte Lemkow , Miki Iveria , Alfred Maron , Marika Rivera , Sammy Bayes , Stella Courtney , Stanley Fleet , Jacob Kalich , George Little , Peter Johnston
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