Ferike Boros

Ferike Boros

Born: August 1, 1873
Died: January 16, 1951
in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
Ferike Boros (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1951) was a Hungarian-born American stage and movie actress.

Born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, in 1873, Boros was on stage starting in 1893. She moved to London in 1903, two years later appearing at Covent Garden. In Hungary, she performed in the National Court Theatre (NCT) in Budapest. In 1909, while still with the NCT, she visited the United States and Canada as part of a trip around the world to report on how dramatic productions were staged in each country that she visited. As she visited various theatrical managers in New York City, she regularly encountered rejection despite her official letter (written in English) from the NCT. In one office she was told, "Oh, Mr. Belasco is flooded with crazy communications from freaks and fakirs and cranks ..."

After being well-coached in English and the conventions of American show business, she had a long career on the Broadway stage and in theatrical touring companies, from 1909 through 1927; thereafter she was seen in character roles in motion pictures.

Boros died in her home in Van Nuys, California, on 16 January 1951, aged 77.

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East Side, West Side
Title: East Side, West Side
Character: Rosa's Grandma Senta (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
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High Conquest
Title: High Conquest
Character: Grandmother on Train
Released: June 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
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Specter of the Rose
Title: Specter of the Rose
Character: Mamochka
Released: July 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.
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This Love of Ours
Title: This Love of Ours
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Grandmother (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Princess O'Rourke
Title: Princess O'Rourke
Character: Mrs. Anna Pulaski (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
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Margin for Error
Title: Margin for Error
Character: Mrs. Finkelstein
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: Elsa
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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The Pied Piper
Title: The Pied Piper
Character: Madame
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Character: Mrs. Pulaski (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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Private Nurse
Title: Private Nurse
Character: Mrs. Sarah Goldberg
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Caught in the Draft
Title: Caught in the Draft
Character: Yetta
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
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Sleepers West
Title: Sleepers West
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
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Gallant Sons
Title: Gallant Sons
Character: Madame Wachek
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Mrs. Schwartz
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Argentine Nights
Title: Argentine Nights
Character: Mama Viejos
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors. Comedy with songs.
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Girl from God's Country
Title: Girl from God's Country
Character: Mrs. Broken Thumb
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few weeks by the rigors of the Alaskan winter....
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La Conga Nights
Title: La Conga Nights
Character: Mama O'Brien
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Mrs. Rose
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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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Madame Binat
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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Rio
Title: Rio
Character: Maria (as Ferika Boras)
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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5th Ave Girl
Title: 5th Ave Girl
Character: Olga
Released: September 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Delicatessen Proprietress
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Mrs. D'Amoro
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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Bachelor Mother
Title: Bachelor Mother
Character: Mrs. Weiss
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Love Affair
Title: Love Affair
Character: Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Mrs. Sarah Rubens (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Hi, Gaucho!
Title: Hi, Gaucho!
Character: Emelia
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
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The Fountain
Title: The Fountain
Character: Nurse
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
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Eight Girls in a Boat
Title: Eight Girls in a Boat
Character: Frau Kruger
Released: January 5, 1934
Type: Movie
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby, and keeps the secret from everyone but her lover, David Perrin, a young medical student. Having been in the private school most of her life, she can't confide in her father whom she hardly knows and, while he wishes to but can't afford to marry her, David can't get the approval of his father.a
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Rafter Romance
Title: Rafter Romance
Character: Rosie Eckbaum (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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Humanity
Title: Humanity
Character: Mrs. Bernstein
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.
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Huddle
Title: Huddle
Character: Mrs. Amatto
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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The World and the Flesh
Title: The World and the Flesh
Character: Sasha
Released: April 22, 1932
Type: Movie
During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.
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Private Lives
Title: Private Lives
Character: Cook at Chalet (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and are put in rooms with adjoining terraces. Things go well until Amanda sees Elyot on the adjacent terrace.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Marta (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1931
Type: Movie
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Angela
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Little Caesar
Title: Little Caesar
Character: Mrs. Passa (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Ladies Love Brutes
Title: Ladies Love Brutes
Character: Mrs. Forziati
Released: May 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Ma Beretti
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Delancey Street Woman
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.