Lela Bliss

Lela Bliss

Born: May 11, 1896
Died: May 15, 1980
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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Lela Bliss (May 11, 1896 – May 15, 1980) was an American actress. She made her first silent film, Pretty Mrs. Smith, in 1915 and appeared in at least over 40 movies until the 1960s. Bliss appeared in supporting roles and bit parts in Hollywood films such as The Dark Mirror (1946), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and Intruder in the Dust (1949). She often played mothers, neighbours or society women. Since the 1950s, Bliss also appeared frequently on popular television shows including "My Little Margie" as Trixie Wilson, the mother of Margie's boyfriend in the 1952 episode "Vern's Chums", The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Mister Ed and The Addams Family. She ended her acting career with a guest role in That Girl in 1967.

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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Title: The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Character: Mrs. Chester (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Mrs. Harvey Saunders
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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Bells Are Ringing
Title: Bells Are Ringing
Character: Party guest
Released: June 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Mrs. Chester
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Ask Any Girl
Title: Ask Any Girl
Character: Mrs. Webson (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
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Auntie Mame
Title: Auntie Mame
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
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Title: Maverick
Character: Mrs. Shelbourne
Released: September 22, 1957
Type: TV
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
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The Opposite Sex
Title: The Opposite Sex
Character: Wealthy Matron (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
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Three for Jamie Dawn
Title: Three for Jamie Dawn
Character: Mrs. Hopp
Released: July 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
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Hook a Crook
Title: Hook a Crook
Character: Mrs. Van Sickle (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Mrs. Hanover-Burke (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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The Big Tip Off
Title: The Big Tip Off
Character: Mrs. Marshall
Released: March 20, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
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Susan Slept Here
Title: Susan Slept Here
Character: Intoxicated Woman in Elevator (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1954
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
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The Blue Gardenia
Title: The Blue Gardenia
Character: Miss Stanley (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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Army Bound
Title: Army Bound
Character: Mrs. Harris
Released: October 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Emma Kinsolving
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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The Rose Bowl Story
Title: The Rose Bowl Story
Character: Miss Atkinson
Released: August 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
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Young Man with Ideas
Title: Young Man with Ideas
Character: Mrs. Tom Hanley (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Ghost Chasers
Title: Ghost Chasers
Character: Margo
Released: April 29, 1951
Type: Movie
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
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To Please a Lady
Title: To Please a Lady
Character: Regina's Secretary
Released: October 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
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Intruder in the Dust
Title: Intruder in the Dust
Character: Mrs. Mallison
Released: November 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
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Miss Mink of 1949
Title: Miss Mink of 1949
Character: Phoebe
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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The Snake Pit
Title: The Snake Pit
Character: Miss Greene
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Title: Give My Regards to Broadway
Character: Mrs. Boyd
Released: June 8, 1948
Type: Movie
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Gas House Kids Go West
Title: Gas House Kids Go West
Character: Mrs. Crowley
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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Miracle on 34th Street
Title: Miracle on 34th Street
Character: Mrs. Shellhammer (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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The Dark Mirror
Title: The Dark Mirror
Character: Mrs. Didriksen
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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Without Reservations
Title: Without Reservations
Character: Bertha Randall (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Title: The Amazing Mr. Williams
Character: Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?
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Home on the Rage
Title: Home on the Rage
Character: Mrs. Clyde (as Leila Bliss)
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Nadia De La Ney
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.