Lillian Yarbo

Lillian Yarbo

Born: March 17, 1905
Died: June 12, 1996
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Lillian Yarbo is an actress, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Great Man's Lady (1942).

Movies for Lillian Yarbo...

Night Unto Night
Title: Night Unto Night
Character: Josephine
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. Ronald Reagan and Hollywood-debuting Viveca Lindfors star in an eerie drama steeped in religious faith and supernatural fear, in the destructive power of sexual jealousy and the redemptive power of love. In one of his earliest directorial efforts, Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) displays his command of pacing and camerawork, building the action to a climactic hurricane that parallels the tumultuous emotions of characters precariously balanced between now and the hereafter.
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Title: My Brother Talks to Horses
Character: Psyche
Released: February 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Hotel Maid (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Effie - Bonita's Cook (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Myrtlee
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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Redhead from Manhattan
Title: Redhead from Manhattan
Character: Polly
Released: May 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
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Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Rosa - Isobel's Maid
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Between Us Girls
Title: Between Us Girls
Character: Phoebe, the Maid
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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Between Us Girls
Title: Between Us Girls
Character: Phoebe
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Mandy
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Daisy
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
Title: Moon Over Her Shoulder
Character: Juline - the Maid
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
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Henry Aldrich for President
Title: Henry Aldrich for President
Character: Lucinda
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
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The Return of Frank James
Title: The Return of Frank James
Character: Eleanor's Maid (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Chloe, Lana's Maid (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Queenie (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Maid
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Clara
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Way Down South
Title: Way Down South
Character: Janie
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Maid
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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The Family Next Door
Title: The Family Next Door
Character: Blossom
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Mary (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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Society Lawyer
Title: Society Lawyer
Character: Maid
Released: March 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his own investigation of the murder in order to prove his friend's innocence
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Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Mattie Harriett
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Persons in Hiding
Title: Persons in Hiding
Character: Beauty Parlor Maid
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Magnolia
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Rheba
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Penrod's Double Trouble
Title: Penrod's Double Trouble
Character: Mrs. Washington (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
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Wives Under Suspicion
Title: Wives Under Suspicion
Character: Creola
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Scarlett
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Gladys (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Seline (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.