Blanche Frederici

Also known as Blanche Friderici, this Brooklyn-born actress was generally cast in severe, baleful roles: governesses, matrons, society doyennes and such. Beginning her screen career in 1922, she hit her stride at Paramount in the early 1930s. Her larger roles include one of the three omnipresent maiden aunts in Lubitsch's Love Me Tonight and Madame Si-Si in Madame Butterfly (both 1932). She was also a regular in Paramount's Zane Grey western series, usually as the cast-off wife or mistress of perennial villain Noah Beery. One of Blanche Frederici's last roles was as the wife of motel-court manager Zeke in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (released posthumously in 1934).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
98%	It Happened One Night	Zeke's Wife	—	1934
86%	Flying Down to Rio	Dona Elena	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Barbarian	Mrs. Hume	—	1933
No Score Yet	Hold Your Man	Mrs. Wagner	—	1933
No Score Yet	Secrets	Mrs. Marlowe	—	1933
No Score Yet	Aggie Appleby	Aunt Katharine	—	1933
No Score Yet	Buffalo Stampede	Jane Jett	—	1933
No Score Yet	Man of the Forest	Mrs. Forney	—	1933
93%	A Farewell to Arms	Head Nurse	—	1932
No Score Yet	Three on a Match	Miss Blazer	—	1932
No Score Yet	Thirteen Women	Miss Kirsten	—	1932
100%	Love Me Tonight	Aunt	—	1932
57%	Mata Hari	Sister Angelica	—	1932
No Score Yet	So Big	Widow Paarlenburg	—	1932
No Score Yet	Lady with a Past	Nora, Venice's Maid	—	1932
No Score Yet	If I Had a Million	Head Nurse at Old Ladies' Home	—	1932
86%	Night Nurse	Mrs. Maxwell	—	1931
No Score Yet	Ten Cents a Dance	Mrs. Blanchard	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Woman Between	Mrs. Weston	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Cat Creeps	Mam' Pleasant	—	1930
No Score Yet	Billy the Kid	Mrs. McSween	—	1930
No Score Yet	Numbered Men	Mrs. Miller	—	1930
No Score Yet	The Trespasser	Miss Potter	—	1929
No Score Yet	Jazz Heaven	Mrs. Langley	—	1929
83%	Sadie Thompson	Mrs. Atkinson	—	1928

No quotes approved yet.