Blanche Friderici

Blanche Friderici

Birthday: 1873-09-12

Place of Birth: Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Biography: Blanche Friderici was a noted American stage and screen actress, her film career beginning in 1920. She is probably best remembered for her roles in Night Nurse (1931), A Farewell to Arms (1932), and Flying Down to Rio (1933). Although today typically indicated to have been born on 21 January 1878, Friderici's actual birth date was 12 September 1873, per multiple reliable records (including her Brooklyn, New York birth record) from throughout her lifetime.

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It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...

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Love Me Tonight
Love Me Tonight

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...

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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...

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Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends...

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Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson

A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago ...

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The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth

Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court....

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Night Nurse
Night Nurse

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh...

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The Trespasser
The Trespasser

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family...

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Fleetwing
Fleetwing

Capturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived when...

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The Office Wife
The Office Wife

Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's ...

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Ten Cents a Dance
Ten Cents a Dance

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client....

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Buffalo Stampede
Buffalo Stampede

A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides....

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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted...

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Friends and Lovers
Friends and Lovers

British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sang...

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Miss Pinkerton
Miss Pinkerton

Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by h...

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The Woman Between
The Woman Between

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home i...

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39 East
39 East

The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in...

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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption....

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Young Bride
Young Bride

A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony....

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The Night Club Lady
The Night Club Lady

A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection....

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The Barbarian
The Barbarian

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself....

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Courage
Courage

Belle Bennett plays as the widowed mother of seven children living in Sioux City, Iowa. She moves wi...

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Kismet
Kismet

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r...

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Soldiers and Women
Soldiers and Women

Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is hav...

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Secrets
Secrets

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with cle...

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Numbered Men
Numbered Men

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinald...

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The Girl Said No
The Girl Said No

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams...

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Thirteen Women
Thirteen Women

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is n...

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Hold Your Man
Hold Your Man

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidenta...

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Jazz Heaven
Jazz Heaven

A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York....

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The Bad One
The Bad One

In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for ...

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Adorable
Adorable

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuf...

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A Dangerous Affair
A Dangerous Affair

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook....

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Lady with a Past
Lady with a Past

A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours abou...

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Personality
Personality

Directed by Victor Heerman. With Sally Starr, Johnny Arthur, Blanche Friderici, Frank Hammond....

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Alimony Madness
Alimony Madness

A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife....

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All of Me
All of Me

A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend does...

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Trifles
Trifles

The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband,...

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Mata Hari
Mata Hari

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying fo...

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So Big!
So Big!

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son....

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State's Attorney
State's Attorney

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom ...

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Three on a Match
Three on a Match

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...

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Cynara
Cynara

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have hi...

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Murder by the Clock
Murder by the Clock

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a fa...

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Man of the Forest
Man of the Forest

Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and...

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Wicked
Wicked

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband...

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi...

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Stolen Love
Stolen Love

The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. ...

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Wonder of Women
Wonder of Women

The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devot...

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A Notorious Affair
A Notorious Affair

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money....

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The Cat Creeps
The Cat Creeps

Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion....

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Woman Hungry
Woman Hungry

This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story ...

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Honor of the Family
Honor of the Family

Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lo...

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The Hatchet Man
The Hatchet Man

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter....

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If I Had a Million
If I Had a Million

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...

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The Way to Love
The Way to Love

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved c...

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