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Cora Witherspoon was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon’s career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play Olympia, or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930's (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women."
Born
Sunday, 05 January 1890
Died
Sunday, 17 November 1957
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Great Man: W.C. Fields | Agatha Sousé (clip from The Bank Dick (1940)) | 2005 |
The Telltale Clue | Mrs. Jordan | 1954 |
It Should Happen to You | Macy's Saleslady | 1954 |
Just for You | Mrs. Angevine | 1952 |
The First Time | Nurse Salisbury | 1952 |
Chain of Circumstance | Undetermined Role | 1951 |
The Mating Season | Mrs. Williamson | 1951 |
Studio One | Aunt Fanny | 1948 |
I've Always Loved You | Edwina Blythe | 1946 |
Dangerous Business | Mrs. Abigail Ellsworth | 1946 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Great Man: W.C. Fields | Agatha Sousé (clip from The Bank Dick (1940)) | 2005 |
The Telltale Clue | Mrs. Jordan | 1954 |
It Should Happen to You | Macy's Saleslady | 1954 |
Just for You | Mrs. Angevine | 1952 |
The First Time | Nurse Salisbury | 1952 |
Chain of Circumstance | Undetermined Role | 1951 |
The Mating Season | Mrs. Williamson | 1951 |
Studio One | Aunt Fanny | 1948 |
I've Always Loved You | Edwina Blythe | 1946 |
Dangerous Business | Mrs. Abigail Ellsworth | 1946 |
She Wrote the Book | Carrothers | 1946 |
Young Widow | Aunt Emeline | 1946 |
Colonel Effingham's Raid | Mrs. Clara Meigs | 1946 |
She Wouldn't Say Yes | Mrs. Peterson - Patient | 1945 |
This Love of Ours | Woman | 1945 |
Over 21 | Mrs. Gates | 1945 |
Follies Girl | Mrs. J.B. Hamlin | 1943 |
Honeymoon for Three | Mrs. Sneddington | 1941 |
The Bank Dick | Agatha Sousé | 1940 |
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Susie Watson | 1940 |
I Was an Adventuress | Aunt Cecile | 1940 |
The Women | Mrs. Van Adams | 1939 |
For Love or Money | Mrs. Sweringen | 1939 |
Dark Victory | Carrie | 1939 |
Dodge City | Mrs. McCoy | 1939 |
The Flying Irishman | Mamie Thompson / Mrs. Mamie 'Make' Thompson | 1939 |
Woman Doctor | Fanny | 1939 |
Just Around the Corner | Aunt Julia Ramsby | 1938 |
Vacation from Love | Mrs. Soames, Wedding / Party Guest | 1938 |
Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Herford | 1938 |
Marie Antoinette | Countess de Noailles | 1938 |
Port of Seven Seas | Claudine | 1938 |
Professor Beware | Mrs. Pitts / Mrs. Ophelia Pitts | 1938 |
He Couldn't Say No | Mrs. Coney | 1938 |
Beg, Borrow or Steal | Mrs. Elizabeth Miller | 1937 |
Madame X | Nora | 1937 |
The Big Shot | Elizabeth Simms / Mrs. Elizabeth Simms | 1937 |
The Lady Escapes | Fanny Worthington | 1937 |
Quality Street | Patty | 1937 |
Personal Property | Mrs. Burns | 1937 |
On the Avenue | Aunt Fritz | 1937 |
Dangerous Number | Gypsy Breen / Gypsy | 1937 |
Libeled Lady | Mrs. Burns-Norvell | 1936 |
Piccadilly Jim | Nesta Pett, Ann's Aunt | 1936 |
Frankie and Johnnie | Mrs. Lumpy Thornton | 1936 |
A Peach of a Pair | Suzy Woodbury | 1934 |
Gambling | Mrs. Edna Seeley | 1934 |
Midnight | Elizabeth McGrath | 1934 |
Mushrooms | Dottie's Mother | 1934 |
Ladies of the Jury | Lily Pratt | 1932 |
Peach O'Reno | Aggie Bruno | 1931 |
The Night Angel | Head Nurse | 1931 |
Tarnished Lady | Saleslady | 1931 |