Blanche Yurka
Blanche Yurka (June 18, 1887 – June 6, 1974) was a celebrated American stage actress and director who specialized in classic thespian roles and played supporting characters in several Hollywood films.Yurka was an opera singer, with minor roles at the Metropolitan Opera, before she became a stage actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1906 and established herself as a character actor of the classical stage, also appearing in several films of the '30s and '40s. In addition to her many stage roles, which included Queen Gertrude opposite John Barrymore's Hamlet, she was an occasional director and playwright. She remained active in theater and film until the late 1960s.Her most famous film role was Madame Defarge in MGM's version of A Tale of Two Cities (1935), but she was also the compassionate aunt in The Song of Bernadette (1944). Another memorable role was as Zachary Scott's widowed mother in The Southerner (1945).
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| Birth date | June 18, 1887 |
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| Date of death | June 06, 1974 |
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