Cora Witherspoon
Actress (1890-1957) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 67
Cora Witherspoon was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s.
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It Should Happen to YouFilm, Macy's Saleslady (uncredited)1952
Just for YouFilm, Mrs. Angevine1951
The Mating SeasonFilm, Mrs. Williamson1946
Colonel Effingham's RaidFilm, Mrs. Clara Meigs1945
Over 21Film, Mrs. Gates1940
Charlie Chan's Murder CruiseFilm, Susie Watson1939
Dark VictoryFilm, Carrie1938
He Couldn't Say NoFilm, Mrs. Coney1937
Beg, Borrow or StealFilm, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller1936
Frankie and JohnnieFilm, Mrs. Lumpy Thornton1934
A Peach of a PairFilm, Suzy Woodbury (uncredited)1932
Ladies of the JuryFilm, Lily Pratt1931
Peach-o-RenoFilm, Aggie Bruno
Tarnished LadyFilm, 1931Saleslady1890Born5 January 1890Known for
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Libeled Lady 1936
The Women 1939
It Should Happen to You 1954
Dark Victory 1939
Dodge City 1939
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George Cukor Directed The Women and It Should Happen to You
Hunt Stromberg Produced Marie Antoinette and The Women
Chester Erskine Directed Midnight and Frankie and Johnny
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced Just Around the Corner (1938)
Hal B. Wallis Produced Dark Victory and Dodge City
Richard Thorpe Directed Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
W. S. Van Dyke Directed Marie Antoinette and Personal Property
Edmund Goulding Directed Dark Victory and The Night Angel
Elliott Nugent Directed Just for You and Professor Beware
William A. Seiter Directed On the Avenue and Peach O'Reno
Barnett Parker Also in Marie Antoinette and Libeled Lady
Ruth Hussey Also in Marie Antoinette, The Women and Madame X
Reginald Owen Also in Personal Property (1937)
Charles Brackett Produced The Mating Season (1951)
Donald Ogden Stewart Wrote Marie Antoinette and The Women
Elizabeth Patterson Also in I've Always Loved You and Tarnished Lady
Joan Davis Also in Just Around the Corner and On the Avenue
Thurston Hall Also in Dodge City and Professor Beware
John Beal Also in Port of Seven Seas (1938)
John H. Auer Directed Frankie and Johnny (1936)
Greta Meyer Also in The Women and Libeled Lady
F. Scott Fitzgerald Wrote Marie Antoinette and The Women
Humphrey Bogart Also in Midnight and Dark Victory
Harold Lloyd Produced Professor Beware (1938)
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Filmography 40
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About this person
As Witherspoon's career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play Olympia, or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women."
