Zeffie Tilbury
Zeffie Tilbury
After many, many years on-stage, American actress Zeffie Tilbury made her film bow in 1919. Almost from the beginning of her movie career, Tilbury was typecast as grandmotherly types, be they lovable, spiteful, or diabolical. At her peak in the 1930s and early '40s, she was seen as the Gypsy Queen in Laurel and Hardy's Bohemian Girl (1936); the elegant, larcenous Aunt Olga in the Lubitsch-produced Desire (1936); Gramma Joad in John Ford's Grapes of Wrath (1940); and Ma Lester in another Ford production, Tobacco Road (1941). Fans of the Little Rascals will remember Tilbury as the snappish hypochondriac who is regenerated by the presence of Spanky, Alfalfa, and the rest in the 1936 two-reeler Second Childhood. During her 1930s heyday, Zeffie Tilbury was almost totally blind, a fact she successfully kept secret from the public so as not to generate curiosity or pity. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Zeffie Tilbury:
- The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda , Jane Darwell , John Carradine , Charles Grapewin , Russell Simpson , John Qualen , Eddie Quillan , Frank Sully , Frank Darien , Darryl Hickman , Roger Imhof , Grant Mitchell , Charles D. Brown , Erville Alderson , Arthur Aylesworth , Irving Bacon , Trevor Bardette , Ward Bond , Cliff Clark , Harry Cording , Ralph Dunn , Frank Faylen , Pat Flaherty , James Flavin , Paul Guilfoyle , William Haade , Ben Hall , Herbert Heywood , Robert Emmett Homans , Selmer Jackson , Mae Marsh , Louis Mason , Charles B. Middleton , Walter Miller , Adrian Morris , William Pawley , Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton , Dick Rich , Peggy Ryan , Lee Shumway , Harry Strang , Charles Tannen , Harry Tenbrook , Harry Tyler , Tom Tyler , Eddy C. Waller , Norman Willis , George Breakston , Francis Ford , Frank O'Connor , Jack Pennick , Joseph Sawyer
- Marie Antoinette with Norma Shearer , Tyrone Power , John Barrymore , Robert Morley , Anita Louise , Gladys George , Joseph Schildkraut , Henry Stephenson , Cora Witherspoon , Henry Daniell , Alma Kruger , Joseph Calleia , George Meeker , Scotty Beckett , Erville Alderson , Richard Alexander , Trevor Bardette , Robert H. Barrat , Al Bridge , Mae Busch , Lane R. Chandler , Dorothy Christy , Cecil Cunningham , Harry Davenport , Nigel DeBrulier , Albert Dekker , Barry Fitzgerald , Reginald Gardiner , Lawrence Grant , Ben Hall , Ben Jr. Hendricks , Holmes E. Herbert , Esther Howard , Ruth Hussey , Olaf Hytten , Frank Jaquet , Edward Keane , Victor Kilian , Henry Kolker , Horace McMahon , Moroni Olsen , Rafaela Ottiano , Herbert Rawlinson , Buddy Roosevelt , Lionel Royce , Ivan Simpson , Theodore vonEltz , Gustav vonSeyffertitz , Walter Walker , Anthony Warde , Ian Wolfe , George Zucco , Peter Bull
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