Louise Beavers
Louise Beavers
African American actress Louise Beavers was born in Cincinnati and raised in California, where she attended Pasadena High School. Louise's entree into Hollywood was as maid to silent film star Leatrice Joy. With Ms. Joy's encouragement, Louise began accepting small film parts in 1923, and three years later became a full-time performer when she joined the Ladies Minstrel Troupe. After co-starring in the 1927 Universal remake of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ms. Beavers worked steadily in films, usually playing maids, housekeepers and "mammies." Her most famous role was as troubled pancake entrepreneur Aunt Delilah in the 1934 filmization of Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life. Another breakaway from stereotype was as the title character's strong-willed mother in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), On television, Louise Beavers starred on the weekly sitcom Beulah from 1952 through 1953, and played Louise the maid on the 1953 pilot episode of Make Room for Daddy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Louise Beavers:
- Colorado Sundown with Rex Allen , Slim Pickens , Fred Graham , Hal Price
- Woman Condemned with Lola Lane , Mischa Auer , Mary Gordon
- Reap the Wild Wind with Ray Milland , John Wayne , Paulette Goddard , Raymond Massey , Robert Preston , Susan Hayward , Lynne Overman , Charles Bickford , Walter Hampden , Martha O'Driscoll , Elizabeth Risdon , Hedda Hopper , Davison Clark , Milburn Stone , Stanley Andrews , Monte Blue , Barbara Britton , Billy Elmer , James Flavin , Fred Graham , Raymond Hatton , Frank Lackteen , John Farrell MacDonald , George H. Reed , John M. St. Polis , Dorothy Sebastian , Dale vanSickel , Victor Varconi
- The Big Street with Henry Fonda , Lucille Ball , Agnes Moorehead , Barton MacLane , Eugene Pallette , Sam Levene , Ray Collins , George Cleveland , Millard Mitchell , Hans Conried , John Indrisano , George Magrill , John "Skins" Miller , Bob Perry , Ralph Peters , Dewey Robinson , Elliott Sullivan , Marie Windsor , Richard Martin , Ozzie Nelson
- 42nd Street with Warner Baxter , Bebe Daniels , George Brent , Ruby Keeler , Una Merkel , Guy Kibbee , Ginger Rogers , Ned Sparks , Dick Powell , Allen Jenkins , Henry B. Walthall , George E. Stone , Harry Warren , George S. Irving , Rolfe Sedan , Harry Seymour , Lyle Talbot , Busby Berkeley , Dave O'Brien
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