Portrait of Blanche Friderici

Blanche Friderici

Acting

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.

Born: September 12, 1873

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

Filmography

1934
It Happened One Night

as Zeke's Wife

1934
All of Me

as Miss Haskell

1933
Flying Down to Rio

as Elena De Rezende

1933
The Way to Love

as Rosalie

1933
1933
Man of the Forest

as Peg Forney

1933
Hold Your Man

as Mrs. Wagner

1933
Adorable

as Countess

1933
The Barbarian

as Mrs. Hume

1933
Alimony Madness

as Mrs. Van

1933
Secrets

as Martha Marlowe

1933
Buffalo Stampede

as Jane Jett

1932
Cynara

as Concerned Mother in Courtroom (uncredited)

1932
A Farewell to Arms

as Head Nurse

1932
If I Had a Million

as Mrs. Garvey (uncredited)

1932
Three on a Match

as Miss Blazer (uncredited)

1932
Thirteen Women

as Miss Kirsten

1932
The Night Club Lady

as Mrs. Carewe

1932
Love Me Tonight

as Third Aunt

1932
1932
State's Attorney

as Night Court Judge (uncredited)

1932
So Big!

as Widow Paarlenburg (uncredited)

1932
Young Bride

as Librarian Margaret Gordon

1932
1932
The Hatchet Man

as Madame Si-Si (uncredited)

1931
Mata Hari

as Sister Angelica

1931
Honor of the Family

as Mme. Boris

1931
Wicked

as Mrs. Johnson

1931
Friends and Lovers

as Lady Allice

1931
A Dangerous Affair

as Letty Randolph

1931
The Woman Between

as Mrs. Weston

1931
Murder by the Clock

as Julia Endicott

1931
Night Nurse

as Mrs. Maxwell

1931
Woman Hungry

as Mrs. Temple

1931
Ten Cents a Dance

as Mrs. Blanchard

1930
The Cat Creeps

as Mam' Pleasant

1930
Kismet

as Narjis

1930
Billy the Kid

as Mrs. McSween

1930
The Office Wife

as Kate Halsey

1930
Numbered Men

as Mrs. Miller

1930
Courage

as Aunt Caroline

1930
The Bad One

as Madame Durand

1930
1930
A Notorious Affair

as Lady Teel (uncredited)

1930
The Girl Said No

as Mrs. McAndrews

1930
1930
Trifles

as Mrs. Peters

1929
The Trespasser

as Miss Potter the Nurse

1929
Jazz Heaven

as Mrs. Langley

1929
The Awful Truth

as Mrs. Leeson

1929
Wonder of Women

as Tromholt's Housekeeper

1928
Stolen Love

as Aunt Evvie

1928
Fleetwing

as Furja

1928
1928
Sadie Thompson

as Mrs. Alfred Davidson

1920
39 East

as Miss McMasters