Lucile Watson

Lucile Watson

Born: May 26, 1879
Died: June 24, 1962
in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Canadian born Lucile Watson was a stage, screen, and television actress in America.

Movies for Lucile Watson...

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Title: Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.
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My Forbidden Past
Title: My Forbidden Past
Character: Aunt Eula Beaurevel
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Let's Dance
Title: Let's Dance
Character: Serena Everett
Released: November 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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Harriet Craig
Title: Harriet Craig
Character: Celia Fenwick
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
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Everybody Does It
Title: Everybody Does It
Character: Mrs. Blair
Released: October 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Aunt March
Released: March 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
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That Wonderful Urge
Title: That Wonderful Urge
Character: Cornelia Farley
Released: November 20, 1948
Type: Movie
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
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Julia Misbehaves
Title: Julia Misbehaves
Character: Mrs. Packett
Released: August 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
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The Emperor Waltz
Title: The Emperor Waltz
Character: Princesse Bitotska
Released: July 2, 1948
Type: Movie
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
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Ivy
Title: Ivy
Character: Mrs. Gretorex
Released: June 26, 1947
Type: Movie
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
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The Razor's Edge
Title: The Razor's Edge
Character: Louisa Bradley
Released: November 19, 1946
Type: Movie
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
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Song of the South
Title: Song of the South
Character: Grandmother
Released: November 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.
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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Mrs. Hamilton
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Title: Tomorrow Is Forever
Character: Aunt Jessica Hamilton
Released: February 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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My Reputation
Title: My Reputation
Character: Mary Kimball
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
Title: The Thin Man Goes Home
Character: Mrs. Marta Charles
Released: December 24, 1944
Type: Movie
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Till We Meet Again
Title: Till We Meet Again
Character: Mother Superior
Released: August 30, 1944
Type: Movie
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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Uncertain Glory
Title: Uncertain Glory
Character: Mme. Maret
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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Watch on the Rhine
Title: Watch on the Rhine
Character: Fanny Farrelly
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
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Model Wife
Title: Model Wife
Character: J. J. Benson
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Aunt Ada Greenfield
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Agatha Archer
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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Rage in Heaven
Title: Rage in Heaven
Character: Mrs. Monrell
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Character: Mrs. Custler
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Countess
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Lady Margaret Cronin
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
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The Women
Title: The Women
Character: Mrs. Morehead
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Mrs. Harriet Mason
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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Sweethearts
Title: Sweethearts
Character: Mrs. Marlowe
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.
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The Young in Heart
Title: The Young in Heart
Character: Mrs. Jennings
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Martha
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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A Woman Rebels
Title: A Woman Rebels
Character: Betty Bumble
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Mother Superior Josephine
Released: October 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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The Bishop Misbehaves
Title: The Bishop Misbehaves
Character: Lady Emily Lyons
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: La Contessa la Brierre
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
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The Inventors
Title: The Inventors
Character: Miss Tiddlebaum
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace
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The Royal Family of Broadway
Title: The Royal Family of Broadway
Character: Actress Backstage
Released: December 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.